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Today I invited a family of complete strangers for dinner at my house. Let me tell you what happened. I was scheduled to do volunteer work at the visitor center of a recreational park near my home today. My work started at 12 o'clock and when I arrived at the center the two wardens on duty told me that during their morning round they had spotted a tent near one of the beaches. They had gone up to it with the intention of sending the campers away as overnight camping is not allowed in this…

It's been a while since I have posted, but I regularly visit this site because I love to read the blogs which often make me smile and inspire me. When I did my rounds last year I liked it when people reacted to my blogs and I now regularly comment on blog posts as a gift to the people doing the challenge. Those of you who followed me last year might remember my cleaning lady Greetje whom I have a special relationship with. Some of my gifts went to her and her mother, who works with…

Yesterday I went shopping with my mum. My mum's birthday is on Christmas day and as it often goes with old people in recent years she has found it harder and harder to think of a present that she wanted for her birthday. So one year I suggested we go shopping together and see if we came across something that she wanted. Since that time about six years ago we have made it a tradition to go shopping for her birthday present, usually in January. This year January was so snowy and cold that we…

It keeps amazing me how the 29 gifts website can lift my spirit. Last weekend was a bad one for me. I don't want to go into detail but I was very sad after finding out something that our son had done which was quite upsetting to my husband and me and it affected our weekend in a big way. I was still a little down on Monday but then when I logged in on the site I saw that one of my friends had sent me a comment, wishing me a nice weekend. Although my weekend hadn't been good it was…