One Day in the Life of Jerome

Sunday, family time, so this afternoon Lynda, Robynne, Rebekah and I took a drive into the countryside. We stopped for a light lunch at th...

This year the Lusito Land festival moved to a new venue which turned out to be a dust bowl of well just dust. Lusito Land is a the Portug...

In autumn, the leaves turn golden brown and start falling off some of the trees in my garden, and one in particular near the swimming poo...

So what does Freedom Day mean to you? While some people marched to express their freedom or lack of it, others like ourselves relaxed wit...

It was at the end of November that one of Matthew’s friends brought us a tiny month old kitten that was too young to even feed itself ye...

I don’t know why Lynda only planted one sunflower in the corner of our vegetable and herb garden, maybe it’s because she only had one sunf...

Winter is coming as temperatures drop to the mid teens. My poor little Italian Greyhounds who look for spots of sun in the garden to keep...

And finally the show is over, my feet are sore, and I need a well deserved rest. Lynda, Robynne, Rebekah and I took a walk to the restroo...

Here I am at the Rand Show helping out Custom Couches with marketing and I see these two adorable alpaca dolls or are they llamas,anyway ...

I had to pop into Custom Couches today, to go over what they want me to help them with at this weekend’s Rand Show. Custom Couches have b...

Busted Maxy! What can I do with a naughty dog? I was doing my rounds filling up the bird feeding trays this morning, a chore I call setti...

They say if you grab a tiger by its tail, never let go but this cat called Tiger for some unknown reason as he does not look like a tiger...

Stupidity is not just a surface thing, stupidity is a matter of deeds, not looks, hence the saying stupid is as stupid does and parking i...

On Christmas day when we were handing out presents, Marco, when receiving ours, he said that he hopes it was a bible as he always wanted o...

After waking up on this rather chilly morning, while I did my rounds in the garden filling up the bird feeders, I noticed a baby Night Ad...

Custom Couches have a stand at the Rand Show this year, and the grandparents were called in to help look after baby Rebekah. It was a lon...

Good Friday, the day the Messiah was crucified over 2000 years ago and because the next day was the Sabbath, the King of the Jews’ body h...

Eish for the name, webworm, this little fella was found on our bathroom ceiling. The Beet Webworm or Spoladea recurvalis is a small moth,...

Last year I got a stone chip in my windscreen of my pickup. My insurance at the time got PG Glass to replaced it but I had to pay a huge...

Although these 2 cats, Paddington and Minky, are about 4 years apart in age, they seem to be inseparable, playing together or crashing to...

Our vegetable and herb garden is booming with basil, beans, carrots, chillies, gooseberries, granadilla, lemons, lettuce, lime, mint, par...

The Rootman family have to leave for home today so that they can start packing for their move from the Lowveld to the Highveld at the end...

Cousins Matthew and Jaen-Jurie are a few months apart and about the same height at first glance. Judging from shoulders Matthew pips his c...

My sister and her family, the Rootmans are planning to relocate up from Nelspruit to Pretoria in a month’s time and this weekend they cam...

Last night the cats were scarce due to all the visitors that came round for Lynda’s birthday dinner. This morning they came out of their h...

It is that time of year again when Lynda gets a year old, just like that. My day started with getting up with the owls, and preparing a s...

Lying in bed this morning at around 4am drinking some coffee to slowly wake me up, I heard an owl hoo whooing which made me jump out of bed ...

Oh what a Monday! My day started with the drain being blocked outside the kitchen, so called the plumber to come out today. I then had ...

I don’t get to take many photos of this evil cat called Shammy as he is a very timid cat but one that loves marking his territory on elect...

Last night Matthew had his Matric Dance, sort of like the Prom Ball. Although I didn’t get to see him last night nor his date, Matthew di...

I am getting near the end of my tether with Maxy and the growth in his inner ear. I have tried nearly all the medicines available includin...