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Anyone who ever thought that buying a house is an investment, needs to do the maths. Now, for those of you who are not good with that sort of thing, the maths has been done for you here . You need to register or log in to see the article (it's for free). I will be renting from now on.

It has been quite challenging to think about the painting I'm planning. Apart from the theme (Armageddon) to find the correct poses and armour proves to be more challenging than I thought. Why pick this particular theme? Well, a few years ago I heard a song in a church service called "Your Bride is an Army". It somehow struck a chord in me (pardon the pun). To this day the words echo in my mind - there was not much more to it than that, but it seems the Holy Spirit wanted to open my mind to something more, for which I seem to be ready now. Maybe it is that in the past few months the urgency of the gospel has touched me. There is so much warning and so much preparation in the Bible for that day, that we need to take the warnings seriously and start fighting the fight that God has prepared us for and that we need to anticipate. We need to become the Army that will engage in battle. We are so complacent in the here and now that the thought of battle and war does not affect o...

I decided it was time to change the look of the blog. I stared into the green truncated squares a little too long. Hope you guys like it. There have been many developments in the past two months. For one, I passed my subject at UCT and so can continue with the next one. Registration took it's usual route, with the incompetence of staff members shining like the sun. Nevertheless they finally managed to register me. I also finished with the evening classes I was teaching and this time round the students were very cool. I'm thankful it's over. We moved offices (easier said than done). To move a fashion school is not for the faint-hearted. Needless to say, things will take longer than you think, even tough you might take this rule into account. (Thanks to Murphy's Law) I found a garage for my car in the complex. What a pleasure to not having to wipe the windscreen every morning and freezing my toes off, until the heating kicks in. This means I have a little bit of storage s...

The odometer of the "old leaker" (thanks J9 for that expression) about two months before trade-in. The "old leaker" himself or is that 'herself'? Yes, yes, the big NAM sticker had to feature :) TA DAAAAAA! This picture was taken about 30 seconds before realising that I had just locked myself out and bout 30 minutes away from being scratched. The chip above the door has been painted, but, as many of you know, metallics are problem and the frame would need some spraying to regain it's newness and shine. *sigh* But overall, I'm very happy and still trying to get used to having all the controls switched from left to right. At 1500 km on the clock I can't complain about performance. Over and out.

Yes, ok, I succumbed. I have moved up in the world and bought a brand new car - out of the box!! In the moth I've had it, I have put on 1500km :) But definitely an improvement on the 12 year old Citi Golf which was leaking onto my feet every time it rained (usually in the winter). Not my idea of fun. I think the final straw came last year, when I was told that it would cost R7000 (!) to fix it during a normal service. Really not my idea of fun! I think the best part is being incognito - tehehehe The red Golf, with the NAM sticker you couldn't miss, is now history. Silver and CA number plates are the order of the day and feeling gooooooood (dara dara dara darara) Although I managed to lock myself out of the car last Wednesday (a very new experience for me, since you need to be quite unobservant to do that in a Golf, and by then you would have noticed that you do not have your key) I now have a new mantra - note to self: have you got the keys in your hand? Have you got the keys ...

Having fun in Kenya The Zapper - what a laugh that was.... This is the CURE for any scorpion or snake bite. Just a little electric shock (hahaha) and the molecules break down. Good going guys, and anyone brave enough to try it :) "Water! Water!" The local wildlife This is what happens when election posters can be nailed to anything and everything - there literally wasn't anything else in the vicinity except a two-track road.

Long awaited and anticipated :) Unfortunately I do not have the picture of the toilets on camp yet, but I can tell you that anything you have seen before in terms of long-drops is luxury – we wished for a seat…. The camp was put under the teaching from 2 Timothy and daily readings were taken from1Timothy. Grant taught the passages well and in each one he reiterated the gospel message and how it would apply to our lives. The result was that at least four young people gave their lives to Christ. Keep praying for them, as they go back to old circumstances and traditions, that they will stay strong and continue in the faith. I think the thing that struck me most with these young people is that they have the same struggles and desires our youth have. They have the same ambitions, and yet they live so much simpler and poorer than most of us. The girls are quite difficult to talk to, since they have a put-on shyness for respect persons, which only disappears when they get married – ove...