Category Archives: Family

Almost a month later

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Steve

For 12 days of the last month, I was in Kwazulu-Natal. Dalene and I had our 3-year wedding anniversary on 12 August, so the day after that, we flew off to Durban at an insanely early hour, and spent two … Continue reading →

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Social calendar

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Steve

Hmm. It’s been about a month since my last update. This post will basically give a real short summary of our social calendar this last month. If you want more details on any specific event, please leave a comment. 5 … Continue reading →

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The latest

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Steve

Bullet style… We’ve decided to buy a car – opted for a blue Honda Jazz. Hopefully that’ll be finalised in the next few weeks. One of my second cousins, who lives in Scotland, committed suicide last week. I remember taking … Continue reading →

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News-bites

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Steve

I’ll try put these in roughly chronological order. First, we did go see Ruben and Nicholas and their parents on 24 March. They seem to be getting along well, although Nicholas was barely 2 weeks old, and it seems Wynand … Continue reading →

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Quiet on the home front…but 14 news-bites

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Steve

So, the blog has been slow. Some people make posting to their blog every day, or every week, at least, a priority for them. Others only do it when they’re in the mood, and that often gives one a little … Continue reading →

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A touch of nostalgia…and the milk of human kindness

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Steve

So last night’s party was, in the final analysis, a lekker jol, and I’m glad we went. Dalene was a bit bushed after waking up ridiculously early to visit a tea plantation at Piketberg for her work, so we didn’t … Continue reading →

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My holidays. In short.

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Steve

20 December: played a 9-handi-plus-komi game against PW. Killed all of his groups. 21 December: drove to Stillbay 22-28 December: with my parents and my sister Kathy at Stillbay. Only notable activities was the annual gathering of the Heese and … Continue reading →

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Mish-mash

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Steve

Reader, be warned. This blog post is about quite a variety of topics. The discerning reader will perhaps find it boring. But after 2 weeks without a post, I’ve got a backlog, and I’m not going to split it into … Continue reading →

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Go tournament success

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Steve

This last weekend was the fourth quarter 2006 SA Internet Go tournament, and I was involved in some serious ass-whippin’! I won group 2 in the last tournament, which qualified me to participate in group 1 this tourney, and with … Continue reading →

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Things I forgot in that update

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Steve

Well, the server hosting my Go website was hacked. Now that seriously sucks. I was vastly impressed by the fact that the hosts had recent updates for us, so I haven’t lost much. However, now security has been tightened up, … Continue reading →

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