Random scribbles

Reading and Stats 2020

I totally misjudged the amount of refreshments I imbibed over the course of New Years eve and it has taken me nearly two days to recover… What a great send of for 2020, to hit me like a speeding freight train before leaving me in the dust of it’s tracks. I was planning on doing […]

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Mister Postman…

Yesterday I got woken up by a ring at the door, I rushed down to get a package that we thought was going to be for Milou, as she has done some Christmas shopping for some of the family members. To my surprise the package was not to be for her at all. It was […]

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Janice’s Snow Owls

Today I have a short little post just to share something amazing that happened over the past week. A fellow blogger did some drawings a while ago of barn owls and it was so well done that I told her that we have snow owls at the zoo where I work. I sent her some […]

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(re)Joyce!!!!!

Please allow me to introduce to you all my Ouma (for those not versed in Afrikaans ouma is granny or directly translated: old mom), her name is Joyce and I love her a lot. Ouma is like any granny should be and I bet we could get into a fist fight as to whose gran […]

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Branching Out, Slowly…

Soooo, I have not been doing great in the reading department this month. The reasons for this has mostly to do with how busy our work schedules have been since the zoo opened again around mid May. Milou and I are basically working as much as we possibly can to try and save some money […]

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8 Years…

Today 8 years ago I met Milou. We knew next to nothing about one another. She was still a student on an adventure to S.A and I was a miserable bitter person dealing with the hardships that is deemed normal. Milou has been the one constant that has managed to hold me together. The person […]

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Update 25-4-2020

Hi Everyone, Just thought I would come in and check up on you all. I have not been as active on my blog or any of yours in the last month or so as we all deal with this pandemic in our own way. Last time I talked a bit about how things are with […]

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Eh erm… Hello…

Salty here, coming to you seeing as Dave decided to quit the blog for a month and ffffff- fly right off into the summer time. Leaving my Salty ass back here in the cold of the European Winter. I envy that guy so much right now I thought I would tell you a little joke… […]

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2019 A Look Back

Hi Everyone, I know I have done a bookish post looking into my reads of 2019, but I would like to do the same regarding certain personal highlights for me that happened during the year that passed. It was a very eventful year for Milou and I… June marked my first year of living together […]

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