Next week I will have been exclusively breastfeeding my daughter for four whole months, which is probably right up there with some of the biggest achievements of my life… if not THE biggest one. I was in no way prepared for how hard breastfeeding was going to be and, to be honest, it was so difficult and so painful that…
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My husband always tells me that the four worst words in the world that come out of my mouth are “I told you so”. I say it a lot. I can’t help it. My super power is seeing into the future, and my husband’s is being an eternal optimist, so sometimes we do not have quite the same end result…
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I’m not sure what I did in a previous life to get so lucky with the friends I have in this one, but basically I must have been a saint! Kate Van Onselen waltzed into my life again just after I moved to Cape Town – although we had met a couple of times before when we were both working…
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As you already know, I am very much an early bird and my most productive hours of the day are in the morning. I’m pretty useless after lunch, concentration-wise, especially now that I’m pregnant! I usually hang up my thinking cap in favour of a nap in the afternoons, and finish off any work I need to do in the…
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Happy New Year! If you’re signed up to my newsletter (and if you’re not, register in the side bar), I would have already wished you a happy 2017, but this is my first post on the blog, and it’s one about a movement I aim to get super intimate with this year. With a little one on the way, my…
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