Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, enjoy your festive season and all that!!

From a South African in Japan (soon to be headed out to Thailand!! Wheeeeeeee!!). Stay safe this holiday. Happy travels to those of you leaving the country. Enjoy the snow to those of you staying. And to those of you back home, South Africa always rocks this time of year, so I KNOW you'll all be having a great time!

Love ya all!!

Natasha

(Image by Mary Coombes! A cute Christmas card she made and sent to me! Santa hanging ten in Souf Efrica)

Jaws

Now as many of you know, I absolutely love great white sharks!! So I was absolutely thrilled to get this little stuffed toy from Mary C back in SA!! Check out those teeth (lmao - they look like dentures don't they?!)... isn't it the cutest thing ever?!!
Thanks Mary, m'angel!

Love ya lots!

Putting my songwriting skills to the test

(Dedicated to my co-travellers: Johanna, Ros, Joel and Angela)
In honour of the recent snow, I have re-written the following ditty to suit my mood (sung to the tune of Let it snow!):

Oh the weather outside is frightful
and nothing about it's delightful
and I really wish I could just go
I hate snow! I hate snow! I hate snow!

It doesn't show signs of stopping
Yes the temp'rature's stead'ly dropping
And I'm feeling kinda low
I hate snow! I hate snow! I hate snow!

When I finally catch my flight
How I'll love gett'ng 'way from the storm!
And my heart will fill with delight
When I'm in a bikini and oh-so warm

Oh how I look f'ward to flying
all the way out to Thailand
and I can hardly wait to go
For I hate snow! I hate snow! I hate snow!!!

There ya go... from me to you!

Hugs

Natasha

Watch out for the pesky norovirus

It's rife in our schools... So I've written the following advisory in the interests of Public Health (no applause necessary):

Symptoms include:

diarrhea
vomiting
fever
and an all-round feeling of ickiness!

Preventative Measures

Stay away from students. They're crawling with germs. Avoid them at all costs!!!!!
If you cannot avoid contact with students, be sure to wear a biohazard suit, mask and gloves.
If you have no access to the aforementioned, scrub yourself thoroughly with a bristle brush (the type used to clean floors) and industrial strength soap.
If you find yourself unable to lay your hands on industrial strength soap, use Dove, Lux or whatever just for GOD'S SAKE, be sure it's real soap!!! Those alcohol wipey things don't work!
If you have no way of obtaining soap, you're a dirty bastard and deserve to puke your guts up!
Oh and try not to touch door handles, pens, pencils, desks, chairs, etc etc

If you some reason the preventative measures don't work:

Stay indoors
Lock your doors
Close your curtains and be damned sure you don't give it to the rest of us!

That said: hasn't the weather been fucked up lately?! Dude, the other day I saw a daddy long legs, just yesterday I saw a ladybug and today I notice buds on one of the trees outside of my school! This global warming thing is really taking effect now, huh?!

Cheerio

N

The ribbon says it all...

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