New Dimensions

Monday morning  I woke up at 5:30 am and wondered what this day would be like. It was dark and cold with the temperature frozen at about 7 degrees. I switched the kettle on as well as the radio. At 6:30 am we drove to our church to for our monthly business breakfast. That was quite enjoyable. When we arrived home I found a bunch of urgent messages on WhatsApp. The next half an hour I spent sorting a client's email account out. No sooner had I handled that crisis when I received an email from a new client who couldn't access the website I had created for him. So I had to explain how he could enter the domain name in Google and his website would come up. The next call was from another client asking when I would deliver his calendar. So that was my next assignment. On the way there I popped in at Builders Warehouse to price a post box for my wife. I found one and took a picture of it with my iPhone. As I was about to leave I found a lady struggling to lift her basket o

I received this email from the author of Holding On To Hurt, Charlotte Roth, with the heading: Let's Keep Our Kids Safe In School. Below is the contents of her email and I thought it appropriate to mention it on my blog. 100% all of  proceeds  to charity! During the entire month of June, I will be donating all the proceeds of my new book to charity. I will also wear my orange t-shirt to honor the more than 90 lives cut short every day. And to honor all the parents, kids, brothers, and sisters who have lost a loved one to gun violence. June 2nd is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and I have decided to help raise awareness AND money by donating all of June proceeds to Sandy Hook Promise--a nonprofit organization founded by the Sandy Hook victims' families. Their mission is to raise awareness and implement kindness programs in schools and local communities. I am a Promise leader myself and this is my way of helping. I hope you will join me, support and raise awar

There’s a new cherry picker on the block at 54 Bontebok Street,  Meyerton Parks (Farms), next to the R59 Sybrand Van Niekerk Freeway between Alberton and Vereeniging. Yes, SA Platforms have moved to new premises and will be near Meyerton as from 1 June 2017. Their Genie brand of the cherry picker, which you can rent or buy from SA Platforms, is a very versatile and popular machine coming in different configurations. They started operations in Sasolburg and have decided to move to their new premises near Meyerton. All their clients can be assured of the same commitment to customer satisfaction and professionalism. For new clients, they not only give you good advice but also exist to make your work safe, effective and efficient. That means they help you enhance workplace productivity, which they believe to be a socially responsible practice. SA Platforms seeks to be your first choice in Cherry Picker (Lifting Machine) sales, rentals and training. The range includes but is n

In April I wrote an article titled " Read, Write, Learn and Exercise ." There I said that I had decided to take better care of myself – to read something every day, exercise every day and learn something new every day, amongst other things. All in the interest of self-improvement. I don't know so much about the exercise part because work usually wins the contest. Yesterday and today I thought about riding my bicycle, but just couldn't get around to doing it. Maybe tomorrow I will. The well-known quote from the famous writer, Robert Burns came to mind, "The best-laid plans of mice and men." So I'm human like everyone else. I'm just very thankful that the back pain of last year never returned. Probably because I have been paying more attention to my posture. Whenever I catch myself slouching or walking wrong I stretch and set my body right. Today I caught up with my writing, so I feel better after that (2375 words). Hopefully, if I practice eno

Another update from Charlotte Roth.  Just wanted to share this awesome giveaway with you! Good luck, Charlotte ️ ️GIVEAWAY ️ ️ Win a 25$ Amazon gift card, cool sunglasses & a signed copy of Holding on to Hurt. Enter here for a chance to win:  http://www.rafflecopter. com/rafl/display/1e1915071/ ? You can also download the book here:  http://amzn.to/2soj8va . All June proceeds donated to charity I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who supported the Sandy Hook Promise donation campaign so far. We haven't quite reached the amount I was hoping for, but June is not over yet. If you haven't had a chance to support, learn more here: https://page.co/Dn1V I am currently looking for readers and reviewers for my review team, Charlotte's Cozy Corner.  If you love to read and review books and help authors like me grow,  I would be honored to have you.  Here's the's the formal invitation; 💖You like to read and review?💖 You like to help authors ma

Stained glass looks magnificent on any window or door. It is considered an art form which reached its height in the Middle Ages and became a graphic form which was used to depict stories from the Bible - many people were illiterate back then. To get a better idea of the history of stained glass you can visit Wikipedia where you will find lots of references and beautiful pictures relating to this noble form of art. Stained glass is still popular today but often referred to as art glass. It is prevalent in luxury homes, commercial buildings, and places of worship. Artists and companies are contracted to create beautiful art glass ranging from domes, windows, backsplashes, etc. ( source - Wikipedia ).  No doubt, when you stand inside a building and view a beautiful stained glass window lit by the sun, you stop and admire what you see just as you would a special painting. So it would be interesting to know how the glass gets its various colours - by adding metallic salts du

Here is a new video of karate and self-defense demonstrations taken during the grading in November 2017. Congratulations to the following gents who received their certificates on Saturday 30 September Mark Pretorius (3rd dan); Hennie Esterhuisen (4th dan); Tony de Beer (instructor 7th dan); Mzoxolo Maki (1st dan). From left to right. Karate is an excellent form of self-defense, something that applies to everyone, young and old. "Karate, a martial art, was developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called te (手?), "hand"; tii in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian White Crane. Karate is now predominantly a striking art using punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and open-hand techniques such as knife-hands, spear-hands, and palm-heel strikes. Historically, and in some modern styles, grappling, throws, joint locks, restraints, and vital-point strikes a