Archive for the 'Family' Category

Congratulations Fiona and Alan on the birth of your little girl.

(More pics are coming soon.)

May she bring you years of joy and happiness.
Elizabeth was born at about 22:15pm last night, 19 July 2007, and weighed in at 6 pounds 12 ounces (approx 3kg).
Mummy and baby are both doing well and Claire is ecstatic to be [...]

The other day Spatty (my 17 year old moggy back home in SA) had a bit of an altercation with a rottie. Thankfully she only came off with a couple of puncture wounds and a broken leg. Check the size of the cast…

I’d hate to see what the rottie looked like ;-).
Mum’s [...]

We’ve just heard from Claire’s uncle Stephen that Claire now has shiny new little cousin. William Stephen Robinson was born at 12:35am this morning (during the lunar eclipse) and came in at a hefty 9lb 9.5oz.
Congratulations Stephen and Zoë.

Rest in peace my little sis. You’re in a much happier place now.

Claire’s going to be an Auntie for the first time soon and we’ve got the first pic up on the internet:

This isn’t the first “official” scan, but it’s a scan, and even I can make out the shape of a waving baby.
Congratulations Fiona and Alan.

I am proud to announce that exactly 10 years after I matriculated, my cousin Sarah has just matriculated with distinction:

This is made up of 4 A’s and 2 B’s with an average of over 80%. Congratulations Sarah - you’re a true boff, despite the blonde moment when you thought it would be a good idea [...]

On 5 September 2006 at approximately 17:05, at the view point in the Wild Nature Reserve, further up the hill from God’s Window, just outside Graskop, Mpumalanga, South Africa, approximately 1829m above sea level, over looking the lowveld forests and the Kruger National Park in the distance, I proposed to Claire and she accepted.
This weekend [...]

Just a quick note to say Happy Birthday Dad. He may not be with us anymore, but I still remembered today would have been his 51st 52nd birthday.
Update: Ooops. Thanks Mum.

I was playing around on Google Maps yesterday and I thought I’d see if Google Maps knew about South Africa - well it does, to an extent. Large portions are still blank, and there is only satellite view, which in some portions is very poor quality.
That aside, I managed to find mum’s house and [...]