Piratical partier

As it is my eldest son's birthday today, I thought I would post an old photo taken on his fifth birthday, twenty years ago. Happy Birthday Phil!

Dream castle

Hot day, hot kids, cool jumping castle!

Breakfast@Arnolds

Arnolds on Kloof Street (which is a continuation of Long Street) is a wonderfully cosmopolitan place for a classy breakfast on an overcast Cape Town Saturday morning. I always feel like I am in Amsterdam or Copenhagen here.

No shoes

Yesterday in Longmarket Street in Cape Town, I came across these two little girls on their way home from school. I was wondering if the little one on the right chose to go barefoot or had no option. I know what I would have chosen given the option - and I consider myself a child of Africa. Click here for more ABC Wednesday posts.

Road trip to the Transkei - Mdumbi Backpackers children

At Mdumbi Backpackers, these two little girls were selling beads made by their mothers. Prices ranged from R10 to R30.
Today is pouring with rain in Cape Town and it is lovely to think back on our recent warm, sunny holiday in the Transkei.

Planet Kids

Today I went with my sister and her children to Planet Kids in Muizenberg, which is an eco-friendly, indoor playground designed especially (but by no means exclusively) for children with disabilites. I gather the owner's child has a form of autism and this wonderful place was designed with him in mind. The toys are mostly made of wood like this jigsaw puzzle. There are also exciting things for sale like colourful wigs with cockscomb hairstyles.

Today is Youth Day - a public holiday that commemorates the Soweto Uprising of 1975 when school children took to the road to protest about the new law that said all children had to be taught in Afrikaans - the language of the National Party government.

And of course, it is the Bafana Bafana vs Uruguay match tonight ...