Weekly Winners : 18 - 24 July

I was so delighted to receive a gorgeous bunch of flowers from hubby's cousin when they joined our celebration for his 60th birthday last Sunday ..

... petals perfectly pink ...

... furled from the inside out ...

... with a whiter shade of green ..

... a greener shade of green .... (and must add here .. whenever Connor passes the vase of flowers he says ... "I love green flowers" .. strange child !)

... and a greener shade of white .... (lucky me .. Elaine also gave me a gorgeous bunch of St Joseph lilies !! :)

Is it spring? This yellow weaver thinks so .. one or two warmish days and the birds are busy ....

... still looking up ... I loved this delicate twirly chandelier which hung above our heads at a Winter Wine Evening ...

... back to ground level ... when boys are quiet you wonder what they're up to - I spotted Connor playing on his own in the garden ..

... lining up his cars on the garden bench ..

His cars didn't need batteries ..... but his mommy did ... Jeanette had a power failure at their house the night before a wedding where she was taking photos, so dashed over - in her jarmies -to recharge all the batteries for the camera equipment ..

Finally .. I must add this photo ... taken by a friend last Sunday at my hubby's 60th birthday ...

OUR FAMILY

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Feeling a little jaded ...

.. hubby and I are taking a few days break to the Cape :)

Weekly Winners :

Measuring .. sifting .. mixing ....

.. add some Smarties ..

... and some candles ...

... add a birthday boy ...

.. and a little mind that says .. when I can dig into this cake !! ...

... add a birthday prezzie ...

... a mommy who can guide and teach ...

... and a big brother to look over your shoulder ...

... makes one happy face !!! (Mommy got the best photo - from the front!)

Add some flowers ...

... indigenous Nerine's like pink spiders dancing in the breeze ...

.. and sparkling crystal ....


... of my exquisitely, beautiful bud vase from Waterford Crystal in Ireland ...

.. catching the sunlight .... ping !!!!

Add one of our resident froggies which hopped around last night under the watchful eye .. and nose .. of Jackie ...

Add a glorious sunset ....

... and you have my Weekly Winners for this week !!!

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Weekly Winners : 15 - 21 Nov

Jeanette had Connor's 'artwork' of magnets as her first photo .... so I'll do the same ...

... his handprint on the window !!!

A week today ... I shall be in Somerset West visiting my Mum ... a kind-of-a reunion ... a happy and sad one ...

... a happy one .... my eldest brother, Richard and his wife Pauline, are coming for a holiday to celebrate their birthdays (P's 60th! and his birthday a few days later) ...

... having moved to England from Zimbabwe about 8 years ago, this will be their first visit back ... ...... they have never been to the Cape .. ever!! I am going to meet up with them there and we will all invade Ian (my younger brother) and his wife .. so that we can all visit our Mum together ...

.... the sad one .... she is in Frail Care now .. ... we all need to go ...

My Mum loved flowers ... she would have loved the smell of those gardenias (above)

.. the tiny miniature white agapanthus bursting open ...

... pretty shades of pinks of the daisy bushes ...

... reaching up to the cloudy sky wishing the sun would shine ....

... and the smell of lavender. I used to always put a bowl of lavender in her room when Mum came for a visit ...

... just to add ... some leaves from a ground cover under the garden bench she used to love to sit on ...

... which has a stoney ditch close by ...

What's this ... with it's pretty colours ...

.. and reflecting dish ...


... and blue glass with handpainted patterns? ... a Hubbly Bubbly - made in Egypt

Do you see the chocolate eclairs in the background? ... just had to make them for C before she goes back to Colombia !!!!!!

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Weekly Winners : 25 - 31 October

I LOVE ....

... my new fridge magnet ... all the way from Ireland ... a smiley fat sheep ...!!!

.... the smell of fresh mint in the garden ...

.... the teeny tiny flowers-that-look-like-little-spiders of the parsley ...

.... the smell of the rose geranium (which is used for pot pourri) ...

.... the tiny pinky-white flowers of the 'Francis Mason' Abelia

.... the white with pink/purple veins of the Mackaya Bella (which are doing very well in my garden having been badly damaged from the treefelling)


... the fresh new crimson/purple leaves of the Prunus (flowering plum) which is also growing very nicely having been damaged from the treefelling ...

.... the bright new blue buds of the agapanthus (this is the small variety) ...

... love daisy bushes and decided to plant some this year ... can you see the new young petals within the transparent bud ?...

... don't love the flies in summer ....

... and of course ... love wine !!!!

Hubby and I went to an expo of wines at the Sandton Convention Centre which, I think, is held every year. First timers for us .... nice to go from table to table ... representing many of our wine estates ... sampling their wines. Some plonk .. some so-so .. some 'easy drinking' .. some rather yummy !! We didn't want to 'get drunk' on plonk - we seemed to start there (!) so our little wine radars pointed us in the direction of the 'good' wineries. We were not disappointed !! Soooo ... now I have more good wines to add to my shopping list !

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