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The Johannesburg Planetarium at Wits University

October 29, 2013 1

Since 2011 we seem to have developed a habit of making an annual trip to the Planetarium at Wits University in Johannesburg. Fjord (age 6) loves the kids show and he currently has to do a school project on the solar system. The planetarium’s very special star projector reminds me a bit of one of those alien things on the …

Starting Gr 1 a year early – Have we done the right thing?

January 12, 2013 2

Fjord turns 6 this year, he is meant to start Gr 1 in the year that he turns 7. He started Gr 1 this week. We gave a lot of thought to making this decision, time will tell if it was the correct one. Our feeling is that when children are younger they are so open to learning and so …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com