Have some fun on the beach this summer with a camera and a little imagination Beach time fun on the #SuperHeroHoliday @sasha_said_what @sashaevesaid #dadsanddaughters #family #fun #crazy #moments @zulberghannah #humor #funny #beach #mosselbay A photo posted by Mike Said (@mikesaidwhat) on Jul 18, 2015 at 8:52am […]
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Stones On A Grave – one moment of light in a place of darkness This post actually started in September last year. The reason I am re-posting it because on Friday morning, my brother and I completed our visits for this year. We visited just under 50 […]
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Searching! That is possibly the best way to describe the next decade or so for all of us. Some highs, some lows, each of us facing our own challenges and demons. Living together, living apart, never really sure where I belonged. Making some really poor judgement calls […]
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After a chat with Sasha in September last year, we agreed to cancel DSTV. It was costing a fortune and besides a bit of sport and continuous reruns, there was no value in it. This meant that our weekends now needed to be filled with fun, outdoor […]
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As the father of a dance loving, acrobatics crazy, twelve year old daughter, I just had to share this with you! If you can watch this without tears in your eyes you are more of a man than me (or less perhaps)
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Nineteen Eighty Four began with such promise. My mother was well, my army days were over, it was summer and all was good in the world, for a while that is. I was job hunting, had been for a couple of interviews, the most promising was with […]
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Gratitude lists are quite the rage on Facebook at the moment and although I have sworn blindly that I will not start my own I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you today without mentioning your names. Listen carefully and I […]
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In 1979, young dumb and full of [energy] I matriculated from Highlands Boys and headed off to Wits University. It was a time of wine, women and song. The songs were by The Rolling Stones, the women were free and easy and I always promised I would […]
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As spring slowly descends here in the Southern Hemisphere, the days get a little longer, the nights a little warmer, we all start to unwrap ourselves from our warm warm clothes and our thoughts turn to shedding a few unwanted pounds. It seems like a natural progression […]
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“Straight out of left field” so the saying goes and the day my mom called us in and told us she was going to ask my dad to leave, I simply had no idea why. I had never seen them fight or argue, I had no inkling […]
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