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The Perfect Storm

31 January 2012 Daily Life
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“The Perfect Storm”: that’s what Dave said yesterday – about our two-month old Golden Retriever puppy, pictured above and below, whose name is Storm. There’s a special story attached to this. About 7 years ago Dave’s brother’s home was robbed and his adult Golden Retrievers tragically poisoned, leaving a litter of 1-day old puppies to [...]

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New Year Lanterns Lighting the Sky

1 January 2012 Bulletin Board
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! May your wishes find wings and your heart’s desires be fulfilled in 2012. Our dreams took flight last night, in the embrace of beautiful sky lanterns that breathed enchantment towards the stars. Mine couldn’t seem to wait to take off and floated first with a prayer for our beloved Jina, who disappeared [...]

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Happy Holidays – Africa Style

29 December 2011 Daily Life
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Hey everyone, hope you’re all enjoying a fabulous Festive Season and have had a blissful Christmas, those of you who celebrate it! Our holiday kicked off with a magical week at Mabula Private Game Reserve, where we stayed in timeshare chalets (which are absolutely lovely). Dave’s daughter Terri-Lee, her husband and little girl joined us, [...]

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Toys for Africa!

14 December 2011 Bulletin Board
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While on the subject of motorbikes, I’ve decided to balance my last road biking post with something interesting from the other side of the fence, given that Dave is so involved in both aspects of biking. Enduro World magazine constitutes a lot more than the catchy byline “The Best Ride You’ll Ever Read” implies. The [...]

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Keeping the Rubber on the Road

29 November 2011 Daily Life
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As regular readers know, Dave is a long time biker, having raced superbikes professionally for 9 years (including representing South Africa internationally), as well as racing dirt bikes for many more and also doing his fair share of instructing other riders. Despite retiring a few weeks ago from the racing side of riding, he’s far [...]

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Wild Things Wringing Our Hearts Inside Out

31 October 2011 Daily Life
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There’s such truth in the saying that “When one door closes, another opens.” We recently experienced this in technicolour. Believe it or not, regular readers and long-time friends: Dave made a momentous decision 3 weeks ago, namely to retire from motorbike racing (after an on-off period of around 35 years). He’ll still ride of course, [...]

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Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Blog Star!

20 September 2011 Daily Life
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It’s come to my attention that our beloved Jina’s blog star status has been slipping, since I haven’t posted photographs of her in a while. NOT acceptable, especially in light of what a beautiful (albeit small by usual standards) Norwegian Forest Cat she is! Thank you to fabulous Jamie at Musing by Moonlight for the [...]

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2010 Roof of Africa Revisited

12 September 2011 Daily Life
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As promised in my last post Caution: Africa’s Not For Sissies! here is the second half of our videography from the 2010 Roof of Africa extreme enduro race in Lesotho, including the spectacular finish. The photo above of Germany’s star motorbike rider Andreas Lettenbichler letting it all go, gives you a little hint of what’s [...]

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Caution: Africa’s Not For Sissies!

10 September 2011 Daily Life
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Springtime in Lesotho means that peach trees are blossoming all over the countryside, like a shower of pink powder puffs. You may remember the image above from my post: Exploring Lesotho, the Magical “Mountain Kingdom”. Isn’t Mother Nature simply awesome? I feel this is fitting because Dave is back in Lesotho riding his motorbike this [...]

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