Daily Helen

Recently I've been watching a lot of John Oliver youtube clips. Especially the financial ones - he manages to make dry topics enterta...

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

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...

Like the rest of the world I've been intrigued about the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines plane ten days ago. Will we ever kn...

Cape Town has had power outages all day. Fortunately I wasn't affected. But when I got home I plugged in my camping lantern to make ...

There's been lots going on in the world the last few days so I watched the local news tonight to learn more. They covered all the po...

I love this video ! ~ A year ago today I was starting a new book ~

Like the rest of the world I woke this morning to the sad news of Nelson Mandela's passing. ~ A year ago today I was wearing a new ...

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

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

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...

I spent much of today obsessively refreshing twitter streams and other live updates on the bail application in the Reeva Steenkamp murde...

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...

Today I got some of the new banknotes. I think they are rather cool.  ~ A year ago today I had Trixie on my lap ~

Several times today I checked on what was happening with Hurricane Sandy across the pond. Yowzer, what a storm! ~  A year ago today I g...

The ongoing truck drivers' strike has been a real challenge for us at work. This week we arranged a private truck to bring us stock....

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...

Brr! The whole country is in the grip of another cold snap. I'm keeping my eye on the Norwegian weather site yr.no which my colleague i...

Bit of a drama in the neighbourhood this evening... fire! It took the emergency services a couple of hours to get everything under control. ...

Today was a hectic day, all sorts of crazy stuff going on. And the City Bowl was aflame... a wild-fire on Signal Hill burnt for several hour...