Every year at this time of the year, we have an international food evening at our parish church, and every year my mother makes and serves the food at the Portuguese table, while I help by bring the food to the church hall and setting up the table. Yes, I am Portuguese. My mother and father were both born in Madeira and came to South Africa where my 2 brothers, 2 sisters and myself were born and raised.

Anyways, and every year they have traditional Madeira folk dancing as part of the evening. Now that I got my new phone I decided to record it. Although the people dancing aren’t “proper” Madeira folk dancers, it’s something special to me, as it represents something from where my parents came from and in essence where I come from.

Here are 2 pics I took. One just as the evening was getting started, one later one at night.

And then here’s one of the video’s I took. Excuse the quality, I only realized afterwards that there was a higher resolution option which I could set my video recording to on my phone.

Since my nephew is back in South Africa for a little while, we decided to do the tourist thing and go up Table Mountain. He has never actually been up there, so he, my sister and I went up one day, and I got some pictures while up there.

Yay, Here comes the cable car to take us up

Up on top of Table Mountain Ahh, Home. I love Cape Town

clearest pic I took up there

Spot the gecko, lizard, whatever reptilian thing basking in the sun

One of the more risky photos I took

Messing about, photo my nephew taking a photo of me

On the way back down

I got my new Nokia E70 phone about month ago, so I’ve already got some photo’s and videos to start off this blog.

First off is a single photo I took on one of those family Sunday’s. We don’t have them often, only on special occasions like birthdays or certain holidays, so we have one about once every second month or so, and they’re nearly always at my sisters place.

What I like about these Sunday lunches, is not only the fun and laughter, while reminiscing and story telling around the lunch table, but also the lazy time we spend together chatting after lunch on full belly, chatting about everything and nothing.

This particular photo, although it probably doesn’t capture the moment properly, was taken after the most recent Sunday lunch we had because my nephew came back from the UK on holiday for a week after leaving to work there 6 months ago.

When next we have one of those Sunday’s I’ll get a better picture. I didn’t think of doing this back then. I was actually just messing about with the phone.