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Because everyone has a story worth telling…

That time when… Sitting around the kitchen table picking at leftovers after Christmas lunch or on the stoep as the sun goes down and braai smoke acts as a catalyst for tears and tales, or around a campfire singing Kumbaya. How else do we remember if not through stories—altered by time and confused by the fragility and fallibility of memory. The messy, tragic, beautiful, funny fables that make us who we are. The South Africa of our childhood and our parents’ childhood and their parents’ childhood and their aunty’s uncle’s mother’s friend’s childhood. And the South Africa of now, of course.

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Who remembers this? #nostalgia🇿🇦

Who remembers this? #nostalgia🇿🇦

My Mother’s Day Lunch—bunny chow with a side o

My Mother’s Day Lunch—bunny chow with a side of gin #heaven 😇🇿🇦

Unpacking 90kgs of #nostalgia (plus an electric wo

Unpacking 90kgs of #nostalgia (plus an electric wok and smoothie maker) was pretty fun 🤩💥🇿🇦

90kgs of luggage, four boxes to ship… and all th

90kgs of luggage, four boxes to ship… and all that’s left in South Africa is our hearts 🇿🇦😍

Now Layla’s seen the road where we played hopsco

Now Layla’s seen the road where we played hopscotch, the trees that bloom Jacaranda blossoms in the spring, the house I cried over when moved, the field where we ran, played and laughed for hundreds of breaks and the school building that saw plays, dances, bad maths and good English 🤣…and the best of friendships.

#kensington #johannesburg #nostalgia 🇿🇦

Layla has certainly acquired some useful skills on

Layla has certainly acquired some useful skills on her visit to South Africa 🤣🥜 #nostalgia

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If every morning could be this… OurFiresideStor

If every morning could be this…

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All I can say is that I’ve lived vicariously for

All I can say is that I’ve lived vicariously for the last 10 days😭✨ That caramel dip #milkylane ice cream broke me though🤣🇿🇦 #nostalgia

Also, Layla’s favourite new restaurant is Spur 🍔

Siya and the boys are very distracting, yes…but

Siya and the boys are very distracting, yes…but any guesses what Layla found in the shop? 🐓🦶🏼…😉

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This little guy😍🇿🇦 #joburglife

This little guy😍🇿🇦 #joburglife

💗🇿🇦 #strawberrypops #nostalgia

💗🇿🇦 #strawberrypops #nostalgia

Delilah: “Mom, we’re learning about England at

Delilah: “Mom, we’re learning about England at school.”
👉Amazing! Do you know where England is?
Delilah: “No”
👉Well, we live in England.
Delilah: “Oh. I told my teacher I live in South Africa.”

…I am either doing a really good job or a really bad one 🤣🤦‍♀️

#justsaying

On this snowy day in London, sun and swimming in🇿🇦 #veryjelly

Kom, ons sal nou braai 🔥 #grannyshouse🇿🇦

Kom, ons sal nou braai 🔥 #grannyshouse🇿🇦 (Missing these two beauties)

I told Warren he could toss my precious #lordofthe

I told Warren he could toss my precious #lordoftherings collectible #Coke cans (that have been buried in a box at home🇿🇦 for 16 years) if he took photos of them first… #thisislove 🤣❤️🧝‍♀️

Junk is relative.

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Layla living her best life #grannyshouse #johannes

Layla living her best life #grannyshouse #johannesburg ☀️

So excited about this! Please do get in touch with

So excited about this! Please do get in touch with your stories😊📖

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International week at the kids’ school 🇿🇦😁 #bestfun

Bon voyage my beauties… make sure you have lots

Bon voyage my beauties… make sure you have lots of braais and biltong ✈️🇿🇦💥 #goinghome

A bitter sweet moment. So excited for the family t

A bitter sweet moment. So excited for the family that’s moving in! Bye bye number 3 🇿🇦… you’ll always sit alongside teacher days, Cheech & Serj 🐈‍⬛(who took down invader cat with no mercy) and hanging washing in a sunshine that was warm enough to dry it #home

Ooooh baby 💜🎈💥 🇿🇦 Thank you @marcus

Ooooh baby 💜🎈💥 🇿🇦 Thank you @marcusmaschwitz — best surprise ever🥰 #spoilt

Still going strong 🖤🇿🇦 OurFiresideStorie

Still going strong 🖤🇿🇦

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Sure there’s crime and load shedding… but ther

Sure there’s crime and load shedding… but there’s also jellytot chocolate, Tropica and Springbok Monopoly 😂🤷‍♀️🇿🇦 Thank you @marcusmaschwitz for sharing your holiday and making me lus for sweets (that aren’t flippen orange flavoured chocolate😉)❤️

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“I use my dad’s step ladder to peer over into

“I use my dad’s step ladder to peer over into our neighbour’s garden. It is beige, like ours, and there are children, too. I tell them my name is Caitlyn because, at 5, I figure I can be whatever I want, which is to co-pilot a stealth helicopter that lives in a mountain and be in a fake-platonic relationship with an ex-army guy called Stringfellow.” #childhood

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#nostalgia #Germiston #southafrica #theeighties

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