Today I received an email in my inbox from Teatime with Liane starting off with the following … It is 599 since lockdown was announced in South Africa. It is 318 days since the start of 2021. And there are only 47 days left until 2022! … and I realised – today is 599 days Read More
Author: Surene Esterhuizen
I wish you enough
I don’t know who the original author of this piece, but I found it on the world wide web. May the author be blessed abundantly for sharing this. I WISH YOU ENOUGH Recently I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the Read More
National I Love Yarn Day
Oh, I can live with this!! I truly do love yarn! And I will gladly celebrate I LOVE YARN DAY today, October 9th. It is not a fixed date, but rather a fixed day every year being celebrated on the second Saturday of October. I just buy yarn, because I love the color or texture Read More
National Plus Size Appreciation Day
October 6th, 2017, was dedicated as the first ever National Plus Size Appreciation Day! WHY DO WE NEED A NATIONAL PLUS SIZE APPRECIATION DAY National Plus Size Appreciation Day boosts body confidence and raise awareness to be a Body Positive Person (I still struggle with that one). Most of us are a little insecure about Read More
And she preserves too 🤭
🤔 She’s not really a good cook, but she has a few signature dishes that can save the day. Further she tries her hand at preserving. Call it what you like: butterbeans, bean salad or even sweet & sour beans. In Afrikaans it is called good ol” “sousboontjies”, which I might add: as from childhood Read More
International Coffee Day
October 1st is International Coffee Day – a sad day indeed for me, because as much as I love coffee, I can not drink the 6 to 8 cups a day that I am used to. Coffee makes the daily journey into thousands of households all across the globe and is around for over 600 Read More
She tries her hand at drawing
Today I tried my hand at drawing from a YouTube tutorial and here is the result. It is not perfect, but I am happy with it. The next thing is to spoil myself with a decent set of pencils to get the shading right. She believed she could, so she did. R.S. Grey
National Punctuation Day
Today, 24 September 2021, we celebrate Heritage Day in South Africa and we also have our National Braai (BBQ) Day, but since just about everybody is going to write about Braai Day and flood Social Media with pictures of that, I decided that today I will write about National Punctuation Day. One thing is for Read More
International day of Sign Languages
Today, 23 September 2021, is International day of Sign Languages. For me this is a very important day and I think that each South African should know a Sign Language. Do I know it? No, I don’t, but I know the Sign Language alphabet. Who the heck spells out their words while talking!? Why International Read More
International day of whatever
Somewhere in the world some special day is celebrated and it seems that if there wasn’t something to celebrate someone will find something to celebrate … even if it is National Slap my Buddy Day! Today, 21 September (you can follow this link to see all), there are 9 different celebrations going on worldwide. The Read More
Do you care enough?
This morning I received a photo via WhatsApp … and it immediately set off a spark of memories. This photo was taken almost 18 years ago on New Year’s Eve. This was a happy moment and my late “brother in law” had one of his very rare smiles. It also sparked a lot of other Read More
AFRIKAANS ~ The most expressive language ever
FOUND SOMEWHERE IN THE WORD WIDE WEB – Author unknown to me How do you explain the word “sommer” to someone who is not South African? It’s not only a foreign word, it’s a foreign concept. Perhaps the English never do anything “just sommer“. There really is no equivalent … “Why are you laughing? Just Read More
Organized or not?
Being a Libra, people tend to think that I am always in control of everything. My mood, my world, my work and my stuff. This is what they say about Librans: Libra (September 23 – October 22) Librans love beauty. They can create beautiful living spaces, too, when they are in the mood, that is. Read More
I am a woman! What is your super power?
I am really lucky that most of the women in my life are living a life to uplift others. Women who has another woman’s back. People you can trust not to be shy to praise another woman without feeling threatened. I had the privileged of talking to quite a few women this past weekend in Read More
Good enough … or not?
Who gets to make the decision to decide whether I (or you) are good enough or not? Who sets the parameters to make that decision? We are all lead by what society or the media dictates. We are even lead by singers like Olivia Rodrigo who sang Good enough for you and you can find Read More
The many faces of this woman
Is there a benefit in changing your look all the time?
Woordkuns was … offline
Woordkuns was off line for a few days due to a SSL certificate that expired. Apparently it was installed on my machine 3 months ago, and when it expired the links to posts didn’t work and visitors got a message indicating that woordkuns is an unsafe site to visit. Havoc, if you ask me!!! Just Read More
Red wine and its benefits
DISCLAIMER: Please take note that this is not a post the give you permission to drink. It is merely my quarky response to a very informative blog article I read, of which you can follow the link further below. Red wine is alcohol (duh) and we have heard many times that alcohol is bad for Read More
To vax or not to vax
I am so over it! All the fighting on social media between those pro-vaccination and those against it. I am tired of people attacking each other about it. Someone said the other day that they don’t want the vaccination, because it is impossible to have developed it so quickly. Really? Everyone pray everyday to have Read More