Daily Helen

I see this signboard in our complex every day. The renovations next door are on-going. ~ A year ago today Thomas was being a good cat ...

This evening I went to the PechaKucha event in Cape Town. It was really interesting! ~ A year ago today I was admiring a new monitor ...

I'm lucky to have an excellent kitchen supply store very close to where I work. I can always find things I want there. ~ A year ag...

They were filming  Homeland in my neighbourhood today. A fleet of trucks and gazillions of extras - and pouring rain.  ~ A year ago to...

Dorothy and I did a bit of driving around District Six today. I had no idea that the building site that I go past every week day is so va...

I ran some errands after work today. It was a lovely afternoon. ~ A year ago today I was making chips ~ 

We had three hailstorms today. The last one was a big'un.  ~ A year ago today I was sitting in front of a fire ~ 

General election 2014: civic duty done. ~ A year ago today I got some photos printed ~ 

The Disa Park towers at the top of my suburb are so ugly! An d what a strange orange light there was, late this afternoon.  ~ A year ag...

It's general elections in a month. Posters are everywhere. I hate them!   ~ A year ago today I was noticing a certain white cat for...

Every day, twice a day, the garbage truck comes past and empties bins and collects recycling from our building. It idles, right outside ...

Last night the cold snap we're experiencing this week intensified - it was freezing cold, the rain came down hard and there was even...

Every day I drive past this construction crane. It's on a very big building site so going to be there a while I reckon. ~ A year ag...

There is a new stop street in my neighbourhood. The traffic roars down the road in the morning... hopefully this will help to slow it d...

This morning there was an almighty racket outside and the whole neighbourhood came out to see what had happened. A car had crashed right...

There is a new kittie in the block and there are some complicated cat politics going on between my two and this one. It is shy but I thi...

A few days ago I saw this lost dog notice on an internet message board. Yesterday, quite by chance, I saw a "found dog" notice...

One of my neighbours was accosted in the street late last night, resulting an a bit of a neighbourhood  disturbance. One gets a b ig fri...

I don't read newspapers very often, but sometimes I flick through the local rag. It comes in Tuesdays. ~ A year ago today I was coo...

It's one thing to read crime stories in the news, but something else entirely when bad things happen to people I know, in my neighbou...