Surene chats

by Surene Esterhuizen One thing is for sure … if I didn’t realise it was day 8 of lockdown yesterday, I wouldn’t have known it was Friday!  So, what happened this week?  I am lucky that I can at least do some of my office work even while I am in lockdown. I also caught up with a quite a Read More

by Surene Esterhuizen Friday, 27 March 2020, was day one of South Africa’s 21-day lockdown.  I started my day by checking my work emails to see if there was anything that needed my urgent attention and that I continued to do through the course of the day, but it seems very few people are able to work from home. I Read More

by Surene Esterhuizen Due to COVID-19 South Africa is in 21 days lockdown. I don’t want to go down that road of what you are allowed to do and what not, because every one can read and/or listen to the news.

by Surene Esterhuizen One thing is for sure … no matter what happens in the world, South Africans mostly deal with it in humorous ways.

by Surene Esterhuizen It has been a while now that I am busy sorting things out and trying to complete WIPs that had been hidden in the closets for a few years now. (I have mentioned before that I get bored quickly, didn’t I?) One of the items, although not hidden, was my burnt orange curtains I bought December 2017 Read More

by Surene Esterhuizen It is day 307 of 2019 … and yesterday was Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! And another WOW!!!! This was the most epic day of the year! The last time that I was really excited about the RWC was in 1995 – the first year South Africa was allowed to compete and we were the host country too. We Read More

It is 14 March 2019.  Day 73 of 365!  And I am wondering how many of you made New Year’s Resolutions and how many of those resolutions made it to today!

A lot has happened the last few weeks of which one thought kept on coming back to me … when is it the wrong side of 40 or the right side of 50?

Value those who value you, and don’t treat those as a priority who treats you like an option.  

What is a hoarder? The dictionary gives me the following: Hoarder (noun) a person who hoards things synonyms: collector, saver, gatherer, accumulator, and a few more

A powerful word to comfort us, but it is also a wake-up call.  The context that this verse was written in was in a time of trouble. 

If you could sit on a park bench and chat for one hour with anyone, past or present, who would it be?