Since it all started for me and SB25 here, in the "halls" of BV, I have the immense need to share in our happiness on this platform. The place where it all began.

For those of you that are new to BV and the history that has been built and lived on this site, I will give a quick run down from my perspective, it will also give you a bit of insight as to how important a part BV (blogville) has played in my live, and various other lives.

I started blogging here back in 1996, having just gone through a bad patch in my life I gained loads of support and friends on this site. The people back then helped me through the worst of it and still today I have contact with most of them. I consider many of them brothers and or sisters. Together we have lived through bad time, even badder times and the best of times. All the while supporting, comforting and laughing with each other. For me this place holds a very special place in my life, cause it's here that I met my wife. In one of the worst times in my life she gave me support and helped me through a partial paralysis following a pretty nasty car accident.

What started back then as friendship grew into a love that I am certain today still I will give my life if it needs protection. This love culminated in marriage, three weddings to be precise. My wife (SB25) and I first went through the whole "legal" wedding at the department of home affairs, which was followed by a Hindu wedding, two days later the Christian wedding in Swaziland. That I thought was the proudest day in my life, how wrong was I. I didn't even realise at that point in time that today I will be sitting here and writing this blog feeling like the world is my oyster.

On the 17th at 13:49 my wife gave birth to a bouncing healthy baby girl weighing 3.29kg's and 49cm in length. That day has to be the proudest day I have yet experienced in my life. It's going to be hard to top this ever in my life. Zia Kylah would be the name of this bundle of joy that God has seen fit to grace our lives . For now though, I need to get back to staring our little miracle. I attach photo's in a few once I have uploaded them to photobucket or similar. And yes, I am biased when I say, she's the most adorable little girl in the whole world!