Tamara Oh

@tamara0h.bsky.social

414 Followers 249 Following

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

The Noordhoek marsh grass silhouetted against the last of the daylight, a single star visible in the clear night sky.
A full moon rises over the sea and distant mountains across False Bay.
A beautiful but annoying young peacock sits on a garden fence.
Woman sitting cross-legged on a couch, under a blanket, with two cats curled up in her lap.
Siamese-ish cat in a desk drawer.
A black cat lies on top of a pile of freshly laundered sheets.
Post sunset colours over a calm sea.
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.
Candied lemon in the works
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.
Prepping mu kratha, with meat on the tabletop BBQ hot plate and broth in the moat around it.
A small boy drags his blue wagon filled with sand through a beach playground under a cloudless autumn sky.
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.
A glass of 2012 SGMV red wine from Ridgeback.
A small boy "helps" mom bake, stirring a giant batch of Rugbrød dough.
An anniversary message from Duolingo, celebrating my eighth anniversary.
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.
The remains of a burned out protea plant, which look like stars.
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.
A relaxed black cat lies purring on a colourful duvet.
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.
Velvet, a black cat, curled up on a mouse pad, fast asleep.
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.
Four iced cookies, painted by me. There's a Christmas tree and three baubles of different shapes and colours.
A capybara taking a mud bath. Caption reads, "Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Flourishing."
A black cat lies on a soft blanket, surrounded by colourful pompoms, staring nonchalantly at the photographer.
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.
Please note that not only are the letters worn off, but I have worn literal fingernail indents into these keys.
A blue striped dress with puffy sleeves, white lace detail, and a white belt.
Three freshly baked loaves of Danish rugbrød.
A plate of pak choi, rice and Korean fried chicken, topped with toasted sesame seeds.
Two cats, snuggled up on the couch together.
Noogie "helping" me harvest nasturtiums flowers in the garden.
Siamese-ish cat and black couch, sleeping together on the couch.
Screenshot of a NYT article with a headline that reads: Gregg Popovich, winningest coach in N.B.A. history, steps down as Spurs coach
A card with a toy car "driving away" and decorated for a wedding, with "cans" behind it, made of rolled up money bills, and a label to one side of the card reading "Just married".
My kid, wearing blue bunny ears.
Typical pack of white Easter eggs in South Africa.
Velvet, my black cat, who is the world's messiest drinker, with milk droplets all over his face.
Two green aprons, one patterned and one plain, with accents in plain on the patterned, and patterned on the plain.
A bag of actual lemons.
Two cats, asleep on the couch
A toddler and his doll, sitting on a bed, "sharing" a book before bed.
My black cat, peering through a pile of cushions
A shopping tote that reads, "Shopping is a sport and I'm the Captian". Yes, with the typo. But not from Typo.
My toddler, sitting in a cardboard box, playing with an assortment of kitchen utensils and dry goods, including pasta, rice, lentils and maize meal.
MS Word language settings options.
Trays of red and orange pasta and blue rice drying in my kitchen.
Two lazy cats chilling on a cozy pile of blankets
Me, using a sheet mask with a sugar skull print on it.
Noogie, my toddler, about to dig into his panna cotta with his bare hands.
Yoghurt panna cotta with fresh fruit and matzo granola.
My sleepy beastie, Velvet, a scraggly black cat, asleep on my couch between me and my husband.
My husband and son at our kitchen island, on a Zoom call. My husband is opening a bottle of wine. My son is eating a bowl of dinner, fascinated by seeing himself onscreen, and I am out of shot, frantically trying to put together the canapes we have instructions for between cleaning up from dinner prep. It's joyful chaos.
richard roxburgh in mission impossible 2