Tamara Oh

@tamara0h

Independent writer, editor, and communications consultant. Word Chef. Mom to Noogie. Grammar grumpypants. F1 nut. Here for the cat pics and puns.

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Tamara Oh@tamara0h· 12d

Chased the last of the daylight to Noordhoek yesterday. Magnificent sunset.

The Noordhoek marsh grass silhouetted against the last of the daylight, a single star visible in the clear night sky.

The sun setting over Noordhoek beach with rocks in the foreground.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· 15d

Frenetic day (our latest building project kicked of). But a peaceful end with the glorious moonrise in Fish Hoek.

A full moon rises over the sea and distant mountains across False Bay.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jul 14

Meet Cheeky, one of the peacocks who roams our neighbourhood. He thinks he lives with us. If I don't close the front door, he comes inside. He routinely shits on my doormat (the size of the turd matches the size of the bird 😭). My cats aren't sure what to make of him, but my kid loves chasing him 😂

A beautiful but annoying young peacock sits on a garden fence.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jun 30

Lap full of cat.

Woman sitting cross-legged on a couch, under a blanket, with two cats curled up in her lap.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jun 25

"What are you doing?" The constant question.

Black cat sitting next to toddler in bath.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jun 20

Did someone say freshly folded clean laundry?

A black cat lies on top of a pile of freshly laundered sheets.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jun 19

Sunset at Fish Hoek. What a beautiful way to close the working week.

The setting sun paints the rocks with melted butter light along the shore.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jun 8

Winter cats.

The black cat, who has claimed my toddler's new floor bed (it gets the best sun in the house, but there was no sun today). He looks suitably unimpressed.

The Siamese-ish cat, snuggled in a nest of blankets on my bed. His poor old bones do not enjoy the cold and wet. He makes a great hot water bottle on my feet at night. Symbiosis.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jun 4

When life* gives you lemons... *a neighbour

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· May 20

In love with this ridiculous and wonderful scarf my mom gave me.

A bright pink knitted scarf that looks like a cat, with a face and ears at one end, and a fluffy tail at the other.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· May 17

First mookata / mu kratha (Thai BBQ and hotpot combo) in the new house. Yum!

Prepping mu kratha, with meat on the tabletop BBQ hot plate and broth in the moat around it.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· May 16

They are the sweetest, funniest little beings. Love their idiosyncratic natures.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· May 15

Best treatment for a head cold? Take your kid to the beach for some fresh air and vitamin D. My head is still stuffy, but my heart is happy.

A small boy drags his blue wagon filled with sand through a beach playground under a cloudless autumn sky.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· May 14

Went for a run because it's a quick way to exercise and I needed the fresh air... I can feel I'm coming down with my kid's cold. I HATE running. But if it's with a view like this, I can tolerate it a lot better.

Late afternoon light just touches the furthest trees along my path in the first and calls me towards the bend in the road where the clearing starts.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Apr 19

Heinous weekend. New house's pantry is infested with mites (I didn't know pantry mites existed until this week). All our brand new food had to be chucked. And poor kid has gastro. I've been non-stop cleaning... shelves, vomity sheets, toddler's angry bum. So good to finally sit down and enjoy this.

A glass of 2012 SGMV red wine from Ridgeback.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Apr 15

First batch of Danish rye bread baked in the new house. The starter survived!

A small boy "helps" mom bake, stirring a giant batch of Rugbrød dough.

Three loaves of heavy Danish seeded rye, straight out the oven.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Apr 7

I've been mad at the same owl for 8 years.

An anniversary message from Duolingo, celebrating my eighth anniversary.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Apr 6

This may look like a photo of messy laundry hanging in a scraggly backyard, but it's a symbol of things accomplished this weekend. Doubled our drying space by putting up a new line, which meant chopping up some paving and an overgrown bush to sink the poles. Used the holes to plant my first veg 😊

The neglected backyard of our new home gets a little attention, with a new turquoise washing line (covered in a giant load of laundry, which had been pending) and winter veg seedlings planted around the posts.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Mar 29

Exploring the new 'hood.

The remains of a burned out protea plant, which look like stars.

My husband and son, facing away from camera, with the Steenberg mountains in the background. My boy is on a pushbike. My husband has attached a guy rope and is giving him a slight tow through the thick sand in the park.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Mar 27

First time both cats have voluntarily joined us in the lounge of our new house and settled in to chill for a bit. Major progress, given that Moz has basically been living under the bed for two weeks.

A black cat in the foreground and a Siamese-ish cat in the background both look nonchalantly at the camera as they relax in the living room.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Mar 12

Both cats are now here and safe, but obviously traumatised by their separation and travel. Velvet has finally come out from under the bed to eat, drink and use the litterbox, and even settled on the bed by my feet, like a normal night. Moz will take a lot longer, but I'm beyond grateful he's okay.

A relaxed black cat lies purring on a colourful duvet.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Mar 12

Back when The Bad Place was still The Mostly Bearable Place, I surprised those who followed me by announcing the birth of my son after not saying a word about my pregnancy. It was good fun. I miss that. Moved to Cape Town yesterday and it would've been another nice secret to drop. Ah well.

The green belt near our southern suburbs home, taken on one of our many visits as we renovated the house over two years and tried desperately to sell the Jhb property and resolve our never-ending issues with City of Joburg.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Mar 5

This cat sleeping on my desk. Love me a desktop void.

Velvet, a black cat, curled up on a mouse pad, fast asleep.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Feb 25

Describe your bsky account in a single image.

Image of a cat that appears to be rolling its eyes, with a caption reading: When you're being sarcastic and someone asks if you're being serious.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jan 22

Finally got to paint my Christmas biscuits with my husband, mid-Jan. These are my four, painted earlier this week. My toddler has already eaten three of them 😂

Four iced cookies, painted by me. There's a Christmas tree and three baubles of different shapes and colours.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Jan 12

A capybara taking a mud bath. Caption reads, "Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Flourishing."

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Dec 20

Festive #caturday wishes from Velvet.

A black cat lies on a soft blanket, surrounded by colourful pompoms, staring nonchalantly at the photographer.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Dec 16

When it's your 19th wedding anniversary but you have a toddler and it's a public holiday and you have no help for the day and your husband is crippled after a knee op and can't really do much... Family home spa ftw.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Dec 8

Made me think of this.

Graphic designer joke going around that lists the prices starting from "We design everything: 500 EUR," "We design, you watch: 800 EUR," "We design, you advise: 1000 EUR," and ending in "You design everything: 8000 EUR." In other words, the more clients are involved, the more expensive it is.

Tamara Oh@tamara0h· Nov 6

Typos today courtesy of my new keyboard. I'm so used to typing on my banged-up, decade-old one with the keys that require different pressures that I can't quite manage with the fully functional new one yet 😂