Lillian Bonsai

Nothing is quite like Christmas morning, when you’re young you wake up far too early and get told to get back in bed or Christmas will be cancelled, when your older your grateful you have the day off. Yet, there is still nothing like waking up and knowing you’re going to get amazing gifts, for […]

Christmas has come and yet again we are faced with the choice, do you want the gift or do you want to give the gift away to someone else. We all know that guys never really grow up, when they are in their 50’s they still want fancy remote controlled helicopters and boats. Girls are […]

    There is nothing quite like the annual festive feast! Every family has a different food tradition, for some it’s the whole rugby field, with four kinds of meat on the table, and the army of side dishes that accompany the roasted, spit, boiled, and braai’d mains. Some enjoy and celebrate a meat free […]

  There are so many wonderful ways in which we incite the spirit of Christmas, most people take horrid photos of themselves or totally overworked and over photo-shopped family pics that get printed on cards and sent to all the corners of the world to boast how amazing there year was blah blah blah. But […]

Today is December the 11th, we are officially slap bang in the middle of the festive season, carols are carolling and we are officially wearing our jolly hats. Turkeys are stored in fridges and Christmas cakes are curing in brandy waiting to be iced with white fondant and snowflakes. The summer holidays are in full […]