Father's Day lunch at Mo-Zam-Bik

Adding to Jeanette's post yesterday of our most enjoyable and special family Father's Day lunch at a new Mozambican restaurant ...

.. where our children ... Bryan included .. spoilt their Dads (and me!) .... to the most delicious food ... Mozambique style ...

... peri peri sauce in it's 'unique' bottle and roasted peanuts wrapped in brown paper on each table .....

.... although we had wine ... the Mozambican beer was more of hit !!!

... our family ....

Jeanette and Lance ...

Carl with his 'little' sister Elaine (who organised the whole the thing ... thanks so much, sweetie pie :)

Carl and Nicole ..

.... with Erin ..

..." hey ... that's my ice cream ... !!! "

... yummmmm !!

Boys will be boys .... I wonder how secure that boat is on that wall ? ... Connor testing it ... !!!!

Definitely a winner ... Mo-Zam-Bik Restaurant at Trinity Centre, Randpark Ridge

Weekly Winners :

Soccer fever has hit South Africa ... and at home ....

... Jeanette keeping her eye on the ball (s) ....



... watch it ... here comes a good kick from Bradley ...



.... what a great kick, Connor ...

.. G O A L !!!! ...

... mommy doesn't have a hope this time ...

Not the greatest of photos but they were having such fun !!

My hubby had his retirement lunch the other day and I was presented with a huge bunch of gorgeous flowers ..... didn't have a large enough vase so had to divide in half ...

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Can you feel it ? ..

Yesterday was enormous !!! There was a huge parade in Sandton, as well as all over Gauteng, celebrating the Bafana Bafana team and a nation united. Everyone is talking about ... all over the radio this morning that's all you hear ... Jeanette was there ....

... Elaine came home from work excited .. there were thousands of revellers in town also celebrating a nation united ... and she was there !!!! .... amazing what this World Cup has done ... united a nation in celebration !!!

Moments like this ...

... make me smile ! ... No .. it's not the full tank of petrol !!!!!!



.. sometimes they make me just a little sad ... a milestone for my car .. but 'her' mileage (kilometres as we have here) will never be the same again .. and that makes me sad ...

.. but it always makes me smile .. kind-of a thrill in fact .. that I was watching the numbers click over at that precise time !! 011111 happened yesterday ... a moment in time !!

The other day on one of our local radio stations - 702 - the question was asked 'what gives you a thrill?' Listeners either phoned in, sent sms's or emails to the host of the programme .. one of them was that she/he watches the kilometre gauge reach 'milestones'. I do it too!!

It also made me think of all the tiny little things that give me a 'thrill' .. a 'lift' for a moment ... put a smile on my face .... I will just share one :

.. when my grandson, Bradley, was younger (before Connor was born) I used to stop on the way home from his nursery school at the empty local school's playing field, and we used run .... and run ... and twirl .... and twirl ... with arms stretched out wide .. the whole world was ours !!!

I must do it with Connor ..

What is your moment in time that gives you that little lift?

Tug o' war ...

"Naughty Jackie has the hosepipe ... let's take away from her ...



... let go, Jackie ...


.. shake it ... shake it ....

... shake it some more ...

.. and really pull hard .... "

This was late yesterday afternoon so the photos are not that great. Jackie is obsessed with the hosepipe and will bite it and shake it as if she needs to 'kill her prey'!! She eventually bites a hole in the pipe, if she gets the chance! Naughty little girl !

Jackie Paper and Puff !

.. and there it is .. the LP (long playing) record .. Puff the Magic Dragon ... which Connor sings on Jeanette's blog ... she has a 'modern' CD for her car - so the boys have heard a recorded version - and not just mommy singing from memory !! ...

.. always a favourite with Jeanette and Carl ... played to 'death' and is probably rather scratched ...

"Raindrops on roses .."

.. and whiskers on kittens ... "....

No kittens .. no whiskers ... only raindrops on roses ...

.. same rose .. different angle ..

... another angle ..

.. and another ...

An opening bud ....

... from a different angle ..

A tighter bud ...


.. from a different angle ..

.. one more bud .. all from the one rose bush : Queen Elizabeth

I planted a 'Queen Elizabeth' rose bush in my garden 30 years ago .. as time passed, trees grew, the shade changed and I eventually had to take out the original roses. This is a 'newish' bush - it's in it's second season ... flourishing nicely ...

Have two rose bushes (name unknown) with these red tight-open flowers ...

... they show up orangey in photo but they're red .. believe me !!! The first bush was grown from a cutting brought from the grounds of the complex where my Mum and Dad lived for a while ... I then grew another bush from another cutting .. successfully !!! Transplanted both bushes two years ago and they are now also flourishing !!

Bradley ... deep in thought ... 'what are you doing .. ?'

"... 'ta daa' .... a tower .. nearly as tall as my brother ..."

Not much photographic variety for my contributions to Weekly Winners ...

... sooo ... I'll add the wine I've been drinking this week .. from the Lourensford Wine Estate on the slopes of the Helderberg Mountains, Somerset West .. which I happen to have a photo of ... taken during my December trip last year ..

Their flagship cab/shiraz blend ... "black cherry, hint tobacco, classy feel and flavours with supportive oak for fine-grained dry finish" !!! It's rather yummy ... !! Photo taken yesterday .. on my garden bench !!

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Like mother .. like son ...

I just had to ... couldn't resist ... post these photos of Jeanette ... at the age of three !!!

Same hands .. same fingers ...

(below) ... oh my goodness ... same cake !!! Well .. very very similar !!! The little guy was the neighbours child - we were new to this country and hardly knew a soul !!!!! None of the few new and wonderful friends we made had babies or children - we were on our own in that department !!!!! No internet .. no google .. no support groups ... no family ... just 'Living and Loving Magazine' !!!! We survived !!!

The baby is my son, Carl .. cute hey ? !!

Gorgeous child ...

.... gorgeous mommy ...

... gorgeous family ...