On his death bed my dear dad seemed to have died but suddenly he came round again and my sister reported that he looked around, felt his arm and said somewhat impatiently, 'why am I still with me?' as

My extremely busy and energetic daughter raising 4 kids, 6 dogs 2 businesses, a happy husband has a saying, "Not my monkey-not my circus!" While it sounds flippant she prioritizes problems according

My sister was 'there' for my daughter when I was geographically too far away to really help. Years later I still know what a huge help she was for my child. You are quite right............other trusted

I've seen and been near hundreds of wild elephants in different reserves but never anything this close and personal. I loved it, brought back all the good memories. We have fortunately booked into the

Definitely not one I recognise (SA). Looks as though he was enjoying the ride!

As a steemit member for almost a year I must say I've found a slight but definite improvement in the vote value I get. As a newbie I appear to be voted for by other newbies in the main? (Not complaining,

I was interested to read that the designers of Barbie toned down her extremely curvaceous figure as it was reckoned by psycholgists to be damaging young girls. They were apparently starving themselves

Did the pee remedy kill the others? You could rename your blog 'Lonely little Petunia in the Onion Patch' (Hope you get it!) I gather it is rare - congratulations. Dying to see the end product in about

Urine sterile? (thought is was full of harmful waste!0 I thought you were taking 'the piss out of me' until I did the google thing. I fortunately only have a small herb garden so will not be saving pee

Congratulations sir on exceptional photography. I can hear the crunch of bones. I visit game reserves frequently and often pray that I don't witness the actual kill...I'm always on the side of the prey

In South Africa our Egyptian geese stay all the year round because our weather is beautifully mild all the year round. Love your pics and text except (may I be brave enough to say) not the odd word that

I appreciate your recommendations - many thanks mgaft1. I'm going to be busy. Lovely. Looking into those beautiful eyes melts my heart and I can understand your not wanting to go through that pain again.

I've spent an interesting time reading what Inner Blocks has to offer. found some good stuff to read. Thank you for curating me. I have been on steemit for almost a year and still have so much to learn.

I look forward to reading about your work in this free trauma training project. A farm sounds like an ideal place to hold the training session.

My grandfather drove a silver Cloud Rolls Royce in those early days.........Imagine the value of that if he had kept it in mint condition like this enterprising gentleman. As a Scot I guess he has Scottish

I sometimes ask God why there isn't an OFF button for thinking! It would be so restful just to look and see and not have an opinion, an idea or even a thought.

The Mall is what I remember in techniclour as that was where my 3 year old grand daughter chose to throw a gigantic hissy fit. My job was t drag my husband away as our daughter stood guard over her child

Always a flower.... In Africa the strelitzia flower grows. It is full of drama and colour and grows in huge clumps sprouting these flowers that look like birds of paradise. A yellow one (the normal one

I know your BEAUTIFUL city quite well as I visit my daughter who also lives there, from South Africa. While she works I frequent the harbour and sit and paint it live and talk to the locals mostly. I come

I saw the windmill in your photograph and thought 'Yay, a fellow South African!' Yes, I have to agree that a visit to some of our delightful nurseries is a calming and happy adventure. Our problems do