by Alet | Apr 9, 2025 | Cooking
What fun to bake bread rolls for lunch – by the ouma (granny) and 6-year-old granddaughter! We used 500g plain flour, 2 sachets of instant yeast to speed up the process, 5 ml salt, 15 ml butter and a little more than 50 ml lukewarm water to get a soft and sticky...
by Alet | May 5, 2021 | Articles, Writing
Maria Margaretha Hough married her first cousin Albertus Hough. Unfortunately, neither she nor her cousin realised that they were both carriers of a regressive gene that caused both their two youngest daughters to be born with microcephaly (abnormal smallness of the...
by Alet | Jan 15, 2021 | Arts and crafts, Series 13
Most grannies would know how eager one is to make (or buy) a very special gift for a new grandchild. In this instance I waited till our littlest one’s second birthday for that handmade quilt. Of course, it took longer than intended, as “handmade” means “taking lots of...
by Alet | Jul 23, 2019 | Embroidery
When redoing my website, I was challenged by Dean, my son-in-law and enabler, to rather embroider the letters than make do with whatever font that was available. Of course, it had to be legible but it also had to showcase my love for embroidery. It felt a bit awkward...
