Decluttering your kitchen, if you are me, is not all that easy. I have a lot of kitchen appliances. I love kitchen gadgets! This week we begin decluttering our kitchen counters.  I have a lot of stuff on my counters.  I have eggs, my mixer, the microwave, some condiments and the vacuum sealer, (which after […]

It is Easter all around the globe. As a Jew, I know Easter is about the death and resurrection of Christ. I could never, however, work out what bunnies and eggs had to do with this Holiday. So I asked a few gentile friends if they knew, but nobody could tell me, so I turned […]

This article was part of a speech given by an amazing lady, who I once had the privilege to hear speak and who is my Facebook Friend. Olga Meshoe, daughter of the ACDP president Reverend Kenneth Meshoe and Dr Lydia Meshoe. Olga is a deeply committed Christian, a lawyer, consultant, youth activist and founder of […]

Human Rights Day was declared a national holiday in South Africa in 1994. It is a bitter sweet public holiday, in which we remember the 1960 Sharpeville massacre but, more recently, it is a celebration of our unique constitution, which gives equal rights to all. This is what I have read and heard about the […]

More important than having a tidy home, is having a clean home!  You can actually have a very tidy home with everything in its place but dust on every surface, or you can have a clean home with clutter all over the place. It doesn’t matter whether you have full time help, part-time help or […]

The best kept secret! Frangelica’s For a change of pace, my husband and I decided to go to Frangelica’s in Long Avenue, Glenhazel, Johannesburg, to try their night time menu. This is something new, as they are usually only open during the day and have only recently decided to add a few nights to their […]

Last week I wrote about a photograph in a group that I saw. I contacted the person who posted the photograph and that’s how I came to interview Riana Du Plessis. 1) Where are you from? I am originally from Polokwane but have been living in Heidelberg in the Western Cape for ten years now. […]

What’s cooking? Getting rid of cooking books is really difficult for me; I never know when I am going to want to try something different. I even have two books, with recipes for one or two people; from before I got married, and that is over 20 years ago, I haven’t cooked for two people […]

The 30 day blogging challenge is over! I am done! Back to normal, but a better normal, I hope. During the last 30 days, I have learnt a lot of new tricks and techniques, which I hope have improved your reading experience, because they have certainly taught me a few new things about blogging. I […]

This week had two tasks; one was to create an area in your home for recycling. The second is to start sorting out your cookbook /recipe book clutter. Now if you are like me, and enjoy cooking or even if you just enjoy cookbooks, you probably have a ton of them, or you might have […]