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Off to the Mcgregors New Years Eve traditional Olie Bolin. Happy New Year!   (excuse the watermarks…trialling new software before I purchase!) This may well be the first New Year we have spent in Mcgregor – this evening we headed up the street for the annual ‘Olie Bolin’ which is a tradition in this part of the world. One of the locals prepares something similar to little donut/vetkoek balls sprinkled with castor sugar aswell as little glasses of homemade ginger beer. All the local villagers congregate, indulge in the fare, make a donation to a local charity and wish one another – so different and so cool! We then came home and drinks with some mates of my folks and spent the rest of the evening chilling out – we were all well asleep before midnight!

Welcome to my new space guys - so good to have you follow from Simply-MelB. A fresh blog (#3!) for a new year; a new season in the life of our tribe. I havent made any resolutions for the new year - I am just not wired that way. I do love the idea of a clean slate - an opportunity to start anew and revisit areas of weakness encountered in 2010. These are the kinds of thoughts rolling around my head: entertaining in my home more often putting LGN (my other blog) on ice attempt to come to terms with the fact that cooking is a necessary evil get my kids involved in the kitchen. Honey baked muffins completely independently on Sunday and it really made me realise how much help she could be. visit the library once a week with the kids read more real books plan a family holiday for late this year allocate specified times for specific online tasks including emails/research/blogging/facebook/admin/itunes and the like. learn a new skill; this could simply be taking ballroom, cooking, photograph...