Thursday 18th May 2023 I've been in this town of Hartlepool, a week today and it feels like five minutes.  I've been sleeping well,  I've...

Wednesday 17th May 2023 A year ago today,  I landed in London for my 'first middle age gap  year' and stayed in the Youth Hostel across...

Tuesday 16th May 2023 My daily calendar is very confused. Today was Wednesday and I spent a lot of the early morning looking at jobs...

Monday 15th May 2023 We went for a long walk this afternoon. The sun was out and although the wind was still rather cool by South African...

Sunday 14th May 2023 Today was almost a pj day. We did get a shower but it stayed a day of chilling and chatting which is what I needed....

Saturday 13th May 2023 I slept in! That's unusual for me nowadays but after getting up at 6am for the loo I realised that I was still...

Friday 12th May 2023 Fake Thursday for me - losing a day in transit, haha. But I slept well apart from a leg cramp waking me up around...

Thursday 11 April 2023 Thursday,  Thursday,  Thursday... I have keep repeating the day because my day of transit made a day disappear,...

Wednesday 10th May 2023 Well, I'm all checked in at the airport and had a supper of fish fingers while I charge my phone. It all still...

Tuesday 9th May 2023 The big chill continued today although the sun did come out and made everything look cheerful.  I had an early hair...

Monday 8th May 2023 Lots of rain fell throughout the night with some thunder in between and when I woke properly at 6am, it was pouring...

Sunday 7th May 2023 I woke up to Johannesburg Winter. The wind was howling (Jhb style -not Cape style) and an icy breeze was a quite a...

Saturday 6th May 2023 I woke up late with Josh Groban trying to 'raise me up' in my head. I was surprised when I realised the time and...

Friday 5th May 2023 Today was a stunning day, even with icky traffic from 3 accidents involving taxis in each of them. I was meeting...

Thursday 4th May 2023 Well today was such an exhilarating, exciting day that I'd almost been keeping to myself.  A couple of weeks back,...

Wednesday 3rd May 2023 I finally figured out the correct pillow combination at long last, lol. So I slept well apart from the thunder...

Tuesday 2nd May 2023 A restless night had me up early when sister was making sure she could dry her hair before the power cut at 6am. I...

1st May 2023 It was 1987 and I was a excited 20 year old, I boarded a KLM plane to set out on my gap year. I sold my old faithful Datsun...

Sunday 30th April 2023 That's it. The last day of April.  Done, finish, klaar, finito. That leaves me 10 days before I jet north for the...

Saturday 29th April 2023. At 5.30am, I heard Harley, the Labrador, bark and I'd had enough of trying to sleep so I got up to let him go...