After we won the camera panned to a South African guy in the crowd who was ugly crying and in that moment you could see him mouth F*CK and that was the funniest moment of the World Cup.
please
@TAKEALOT
you HAVE to redesign your website and search results. almost every time i search for something about a thousand e-books come up and then i have to filter the crap out of the results just to find what i'm looking for.
Restaurants who serve food on wooden boards but then place a layer of wax paper on top for hygiene which inevitably gets soggy and tears with every cut of the knife - here’s an idea: PLATES.
hey
@bp_southafrica
i had the greatest petrol attendant this morning and when i wanted to tip him he said that you guys don't allow us to add tips on the card machine. WHY. i hardly ever have cash on me...! let us tip your attendants 😩
wow it’s almost like maybe they should have spent the millions and billions of rands that they’ve siphoned from the country into hospitals or something 🥲
There’s a
@TableMountainNP
official on the radio saying that one of the big problems they are having is people trying to get onto the mountain to walk with their dogs and cycle. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
#CapeTownFires
After we won the camera panned to a South African guy in the crowd who was ugly crying and in that moment you could see him mouth F*CK and that was the funniest moment of the World Cup.
My dad received a cancer diagnosis 7 weeks ago. A surgeon removed the offending gland using a robotic surgical system, he was out of hospital by the third day and less than a week later the prognosis is that the cancer did not spread. Medicine is amazing and I am truly grateful.
Bought a new summer dress online, tried it on, felt kind of meh (“need to lose weight, need to get a tan” etc etc usual thoughts) and at that moment my son walked in, looked me up and down and gasped “Mamma, you look beautiful”😭
Maybe just triggered but find it weirdly rude when people who have emigrated post links and articles about SA’s problems (we know, we are here). Like ok thanks you aren’t here anymore so please let us just cope with it without being reminded it is a dumpster fire sometimes.
As a first time parent you’ll stress that your toddler never eats or isn’t interested in food. But one day you’ll wake up and have a 6 year old that eats 5 banana muffins in a row and say he’s still hungry then drink two cups of milk straight while the fridge door is still open.
I will scream this all year: SLIDE INTO YOUR TWITTER CRUSH’S DMS. Life is too short. It can lead to really magical things. Or it may not work out. Either way, you miss all the shots you don’t take!
Remember back in the day when someone went to the airport they’d bring back a Toblerone from Duty Free and it would be like the *height* of chocolate sophistication, and now you can get 2 for 50 bucks at Checkers.
never in my time growing up would i have seen a normal woman like this in any fashion magazine, store windows, catalogues. never. diet culture fucked us up in the 80s/90s/00s. i hope it's different for young girls now.
Just witnessed the sweetest scene. Two security guards reading the newspaper, one is reading out loud to the other: “...exempted from this lockdown... those in security services.” - looks up and taps his colleague’s chest “That’s us. That’s us.” They looked visibly relieved. 😭
Picking up Axel from school -
Axel: Mamma that is my best friend
Me: Oh what’s his name?
Axel turns and shouts to the boy: WHAT’S YOUR NAME?
4 year olds hey
But more than anything I really LOVED it. I still love it. I won’t ever close it down. Maybe some day I’ll go back to it, who knows. Maybe people will tire of instagram and go back to reading blogs again. Anyway, thanks for reading if you ever did.
Every single day I see a RIP post on social media of strangers I do not know. Young people. People with small kids. People who were loved and respected. And every single day I see someone arguing about vaccines and their freedom of choice. I can only say fuck you to those people.
Keeping thinking of our friend who was driving past Pollsmoor as some prisoners were cleaning outside, and when his six year old asked why they were in jail he said “because they didn’t listen.”
Our kids are so starved of mingling with strangers that after an emergency electrician came to fix something at our house last night our 5 year old said, “I love him with all my heart.”
My dad struggles to sleep, he’s in his seventies and has been taking sleeping pills for years. Last night he took the max dosage of CBD drops my mom got him and slept all through the night. “daai dagga het my lekker laat slaap.” From the mouths of babes 😌
For those who shit on Wordle: it’s just a fun, rad game.
The creator is a software developer who made it for his partner who loves word games. It’s free. It makes no money. You can only play once a day.
What exactly is there to hate?
Yesterday I had to drive out to get supplies and I saw our local coffee shop was packed. Maybe they don’t know, but this is not business as usual. South Africans please urge your family and friends to take this seriously and educate those who do not understand.
#Covid19InSA
Getting PR invites to the opening of various Starbucks stores in CT. please *please* don’t support Starbucks. We have SO MANY excellent local coffee places and they need our support more than a massive international chain with average coffee.
Overheard in Woolies Food queue, Waterfront, Cape Town:
*Woman 1 complaining about her boyfriend*
Woman 2: you need a rose quartz crystal, I have 3 in my car. You put it on your heart and it sorts out your problems.
Me: 👀
Woolies cashier: 👀
I had to get a quote from Smeg’s Cape Town branch for an appliance part and the dude I’m dealing with sent me an excel spreadsheet named “PROFORMA INVOICE- PLEASE USE THIS ONE BRA” 😂 😂 😂
Funny update to this (not that I‘d ever be offended by my 4yr old) but I gently told him he shouldn’t remark on people’s bodies & just always say someone looks great. This morning while getting dressed: Mamma your bum looks great! Your tummy looks great! Your legs look great! 😂
A woman behind me hooted when the traffic light went green, it had not even been 1-2 seconds. Did I not give her the biggest death stare and drive purposefully irritatingly slow for the rest of the time.
Turns out she’s a mom at my kids school 💀
(would do again)
every time i go onto Zando i think... what on earth is going on over there at Zando? the clothes are weird, the styling is weird, the photos are weird... the website is weird.
Living in Cape Town:
Jees this wind hey
I can’t believe it’s raining again
Such weird weather at the moment
Is this a south easter?
No it’s more of a westerly
North wester means it will rain
It’s going to be hot this weekend
Rain again on Tuesday
Remember at the beginning of the lockdown everyone was baking and ordering veggie boxes and making weird coffee and recording themselves exercising and doing creative crafts with their kids and now we’re just like 𝔲𝔤𝔥.
I’m so bored of people proudly instagramming bakes and things that are “gluten, dairy and sugar free”. Please only instagram things from now on that are FULL of gluten and dairy and sugar. I require MAXIMUM gluten.
My cousin & her husband have been on the list to adopt a baby for years, but were never considered cause they’re so young (they applied in their 20s) and now they adopted a baby boy. he has a hare-lip & so was difficult to place 🥺 but they said WE WANT HIM 😭 and he’s so cute 🥰
Thinking back to the times I faked being sick to get out of school and how my mom would go along with it (SHE KNEW) and let me lie in bed and eat toast and tea and watch tv all day. Even kids need self care days 😂
Surely if you’re concerned about WhatsApp’s new privacy issues you should delete your Facebook and Instagram accounts too? Right? They’ve been mining your data for years, no?
Here's the thing about Takealot / Superbalist, they'll try to convince you that they have these huge discounts - when in actual fact they bump up the retail price so the "discount" looks good.
The same item from Cotton On at R250 vs the "40% discounted" item from Superbalist:
Axel: Look Mamma that kid has two moms! You can even have two moms or you can have two dads.
Me: Yes sometimes boys like boys and girls like girls, or you can like both. Know what I mean?
Axel: No… But I will when I’m a grown up.
🥰
Anton’s at the guesthouse with the kids and I’m buying shoes for Eva cause she just started walking. But I have no idea how to judge her size. He sends me this. Genius.