Realities of the new South Africa

Here’s a funny advert I saw on YouTube for the Ford Bantam. Any thoughts?

Houses in South Africa

So Sally writes on my Facebook profile:

“hey you know.. i was just wondering the other day .. you know how houses in different countries are laid out and ‘decorated’ differently. For instance, you can look at someone’s picture when they’re in someone’s house in Indo and you can tell it’s an Indo house as opposed to CA. How are the houses there? Congrats on the 42” btw.”

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Ruby eating mushrooms = Vomit

Ruby hardly vomits. Usually it’s when she drinks too much water too fast or most often eating mushrooms that have grown in the garden after a hard rain.

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Meet Ruby

This is Ruby, our Australian Shepherd. She’s our baby, our pride and joy. Ruby is 4 1/2 and is the best doggie anyone can ask for. She doesn’t have a chewing problem, barking problem or any obsessive compulsive tendencies.

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Sun-dried Tomato Cream Cheese Spread

I miss bagels. Growing up bagels were standard fare in school cafeteria’s and as an adult I often visited Noah’s New York Bagels to get my bagel fix. Noah’s offers New York style bagels but its stores are all located on the West Coast: California, Orgeon and Washington.

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My St. Paddy’s Day Surprise

We were chilling out at home when Fiancé said “Let’s go for a drive…it’s a surprise.” We’re not your typical surprise-type people. I generally don’t like surprises as I’m not sure how to react to them most times. I put on some jeans off we went.

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Welcome to my first post!

I finally did it. I started my own blog.

I’ve been living in South Africa for two years now and it’s never occurred to me to start a blog about my experiences as an American expat living in South Africa. For the last couple of months I’ve been contemplating whether I should start a blog or shouldn’t, what I would write about and what kind of theme my blog would be about.

It’s never too late to start something is it? I’ve decided to call it Sweet and Sour, the sweet bits of living in SA and the sour bits that come with it. My South African hubby came up with the idea and I couldn’t think of a better name so it stuck.

What else will the blog be about? Besides my experiences living here, it’ll be about food (because I love food!), travels and my dog Ruby.