Happy Birthday Oupa!

Ek het nie vergeet nie Oupa, dit was net ‘n mal huis – vrek besig. Die hele dag lank het gedagtes oor Oupa deur my kop gewoel.
Soos:
Wat as Oupa nie in 1930 gebore was tydens die depressie nie, maar later?
Wat as Oupa dalk verder kon skoolgaan na St. 6?
Wat as Oupa Jan nie so gesukkel [...]

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Hippopototamus – die alien in die brein . . .

Hoe meer ons hoor, hoe meer stres ons, hoe minder is ons lus en hoe meer bekommer ons.
Die uroloog het Plasie verwys na ‘n neurochirurg – die moet ons loop sien op Vrydag die 13de November. Nog ‘n hele blerrie laaaaaaang maand weg. Volgens die uroloog is die adenoma in Plasie se brein (gewas/groeisel wat [...]

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Uhm, we may have a small problem . . .

Houston, this is the Challenger and I think we might have a small problem. Uhm, several . . . million small problems.
The problem is: there are currently NO swimmers. The results are out. The expected count is: 20 – 250 million. We have: 0.
Possible causes:

hormones (lack of testosterone – which is being supplemented)
blockage of tubes [...]

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♪ We’re all going on a summer holiday . . . ♪

. . . NOT!

I long for a nice summer holiday anywhere, not specifically at the beach, but just away from home and work and the Xmas rush.
But, as they say: no rest for the wicked, so here I will stay, slaving away. Hmmm, that even rhymes . . .
We’re still pondering the baby-thing: now we [...]

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Husband-bashing

It amazes me how some women can go on and on and on and on and . . . (you get the picture?) about how bad their husbands are. How their husbands don’t care for them, don’t love them, and don’t cherish them. How their husbands abuse them emotionally and physically. How these men entertain [...]

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Scorpio, wherefore art thou Scorpio?

Scorpio’s tend to suffer from sulking silences (in Afrikaans called stil stuipe). And they’ve mastered the art exceptionally well. They also tend to suffer from lunar madness more than other males of their species.
That (according to my own humble opinion) makes them sometimes difficult to deal with. Added to that an emotional, hormone-driven Libra, it [...]

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License to breed?

 One often wonders why one needs a driver’s license and a firearm license which has to be renewed every 5 years, but one needs no license to become a parent? Anybody in whatever circumstances are able to procreate – no exam, no assessment, no nothing. Go forth and multiply. Please.
Could it be because children are [...]

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It makes me cry . . .

I don’t think there’s anything more endearing, heart-wrenching, emotional fulfilling than a first-time-daddy holding his new born baby in his hands.
My wish for you, my love . . .
The unpregnant mother

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