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This article has been around the web for a number of years and is perhaps one of the first examples of a viral message. It’s taken on a host of different forms and variations over the years, and keeps popping up as either an article, an adapted...
Rosh HaShanah begins this week, and we want to take a moment to wish all of our Jewish family, friends, neighbours and BlaBla Blog readers L’Shanah Tovah – may you all have a very good year! Rosh HaShanah is the Jewish New Year. It falls...
Aweh Bru’s! The time to Braai the Beloved Country is once again almost upon us. Jan Braai (@janbraai) and the crew over at Braai4Heritage.co.za are again drumming up support for the annual Braai4Heritage campaign. Besides the fact that...
The last time I was at FNB STADIUM it was still a construction site. It formed part of Greg, Mrs VOTED and my photobook for the YMJG Ama-Zing race. So this was to be our first LIVE event at the newly rebuilt 92000 seater stadium. And as it would...
I overheard two women talking outside the gates of my daughter’s school some time ago. They were discussing their children’s eating habits; one said her son had refused anything but two-minute-noodles or pizza for over a year, the other...
“If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well” Ruth Carlisle Everyone is sick in my house: Old Spouse, Original Bunn and Our Alice have flu and I am the sole hale and hearty...
This dusty bottle of 1984 Meerlust Merlot is the gift I bought to give to my father on his 50th birthday. That was exactly 19 years ago. Today he would be celebrating his 69th birthday. My dad loved red wine. He introduced me to its’ subtle...
My daughter was in Cape Town as a special treat, with my husband, to watch England play Algeria. She’d been to the first England game and is determined to be at all their games, although she confesses a lack of optimism for their staying...
In light of the tragic death in a car accident of Mr. Mandela’s great-granddaughter, the issue of the safety of child passengers in motor vehicles has come up again. Again and again as I drive around I see unrestrained children in cars, babies...
A quick personal post, if you’ll indulge me… My brother from another mother and his lovely wife have just taken delivery of their first healthy, bouncy baby – a 3.1kg boy who would be the Travis James of my posts’ title....
Just how young is too young? Where does the line between performance and perversion get drawn? Do parents have the right to put their children at risk through condoning their participation in sexually inappropriate behaviours? And can charges...
Childhood by George William Russell How I could see through and through you! So unconscious, tender, kind, More than ever was known to you Of the pure ways of your mind. We who long to rest from strife Labour sternly...
Rain Spider (c) Alan Carr - Click to see more at http://tinyurl.com/ydwhzbp The fear induced nerve twitching and spine chill you get when confronted by a spider may well be a trait you inherited from your mother before you were born and could...
After the collection of classic Facebook Failures we posted last year, I never thought we’d get back to the topic. This one is just too good to let slip by though, so here we are again. Here’s the back story: Chris is seriously pissed at...
As a previously advantaged individual, I have little understanding of our countries Bantu cultures. I can speak and understand enough Zulu to get me in and out of trouble, yet I have very little cultural knowledge. I am trying to understand...
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