ABOUT

I am a 25 year old, fun-loving, South African girl. I grew up in the city of Johannesburg & went to a boarding school called Treverton in a one horse town in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal. Nowadays Dominic & I live in a lovely bungalow in a town called Sevenoaks in Kent –  and no we don’t live alone! We live with a living, breathing, fluffy thing (commonly known to most as ‘a dog’) who we refer to as Arnold/Seeder.

My actual name given to me by my mom & dad (which I love) is Kayla but I am often called Smee! Why Smee? Well I met my gorgeous boyfriend (Dominic) in a restaurant called The Codfather in Johannesburg. I couldn’t take my eyes off him as I sipped on too many farewell cocktails with a friend. I courageously (in a very drunken state) bought him & his friend a shot of Jagermeister – well the rest is history! We moved in together relatively quickly, drank far too much wine & beer, ate way too much food & then decided to quit my full time job & travel to England where we stayed with Dom’s mum Susan (a.k.a Smoo) for 2 months. It is around this time where my nickname was born ’Kayla Smayla’. Since then my nickname (given to me by Smoo) has evolved into Smee! 

Currently I spend my mornings working as a nanny for three totally awesome families. 

Admittedly, I have put off starting a blog for a very long time. I have been too worried about other peoples perceptions and what they will make of my writing, website and just how readers might receive my messages. I have made this my challenge, to push myself outside of my comfort zones so that I can share my experiences with you and to potentially help plant a positive seed in some of my readers minds… to create awareness and to perhaps provoke a change in the way we think. After all, we have been programmed to do things “this way” because “thats how its always been done” and if we keep going down this frightening path our future generations will not have a beautiful world to live in. This is what gave me the confidence to start up a blog – because even if I inspire one person to go Vegan or to get themselves healthy it will be all worth it. Our planet needs help, animals doomed for human consumption need to be liberated and our minds and bodies most definitely need revival. 

I hope to create awesome, engaging & inspiring content full of goodness for anyone and everyone! I’ll mainly be focusing on Veganism, Fitness, Wellbeing and Zero-Waste with a sprinkle of Smee’s total randomness! I am relatively new to most of these topics and so I thought what better way to document my journey into making preferable & more conscious efforts to make this world a better place, if not for us, for the future generations still to come.

If you would like me to write about a specific subject or have any questions please feel free to get in touch with me via my Instagram page or simply comment on my posts! 🙂 

Wishing you nothing but goodness,
Smee ❤