A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
Since moving to South Africa from the UK when I was four years old I have lived by the sea, first in Durban and now in Cape Town. Despite this, and notwithstanding the fact that spending time on the beach has always been a favourite activity of people around me, I have never really been …
Note from Lois: For Fiji’s non-South African readers, load shedding is a system of scheduled rolling electrical blackouts that can affect us for periods of two hours several times a day. Hi everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I usually feel like we dogs make perfect sense. Most of the time, humans also make sense. But …
The second day of the Capacity Building Conference funded by the EU as part of the Enable Mauritius project was an in-person event held at the University of Mauritius. Somewhat to my surprise, due to one of the speakers having been delayed, my slot was shifted from mid-morning and I again was the first to …
One of the main reasons I was in Mauritius was to speak at the European Union funded capacity building workshop for NGOs in the disability sector, which was part of the Enable Mauritius initiative. The event took place over two days. The first day was online and the second was a physical conference at the …
If you remember, I mentioned that I spent two weeks in Mauritius towards the end of 2022. I haven’t had a chance to tell you more about that trip – the end of the year became so busy that I skipped a few posts over the course of December. Regardless, I feel the time is …
If I were my guide dog, I would be jumping up and down with excitement. Okay, I cannot lie – even though I’m not my guide dog, I’m still jumping up and down with excitement. The reason for my joy? My new website is finally live. After two years procrastinating about getting the new site …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji This morning my doggy brother Onyx asked me such a silly question. He asked me why I sleep under Mom and Dad’s bed. I thought he was rather rude to have asked me. I mean, I don’t ask him why he sometimes sleeps in the bedroom and sometimes in …
I’m struggling to make sense of the fact that 2022 is at an end, and that it’s time for me to start planning the year ahead. Somehow, with all my recent travels, it feels like I’ve skipped a few months so my brain is telling me there’s still plenty of time left this year. Which …
I was sitting at the gate, waiting to board my flight from Krakow to Vienna, when a cold, wet nose gently insinuated itself into my hand. To say I was startled would be something of an understatement. I pressed the stop button on my book reader, reached out my hand… and patted the gorgeous collie …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I’ve been getting more and more angry over the past few months. It feels like Mom is simply never around anymore – first she went to Europe for a whole month. She had only been home for a few weeks when she suddenly disappeared again, this time to Mauritius. …