My Family

Janine was born in Pretoria in 1981. Her father, Willie is an accountant and her mother Jeanne, is a teacher. She has a younger brother and sister. After matriculating from Hoërskool Waterkloof in 1999 she studied Medicine at the University of Pretoria. She married the love of her life, Llewellyn, an electronic engineer in 2005. They are blessed with three children – a handsome and hunky blue-eyed boy Lennard, a breathtakingly beautiful and kind hearted girl Hanna and a gorgeous but very mischievous girl Katja! Their family is fiercely protected by a Yorkie named Phoebie. Janine is a homebody, where she usually has her nose stuck in a book or potters around creatively!

The Potgieters happily reside in Pretoria and enjoy all the wonderful blessings from the Lord's loving Hand.

 

More about Janine

quirk: /kwəːk/ noun (plural: quirks)

  1. A peculiar aspect of a person's character or behaviour.
  2. Everything unusual about a usual person.

LIKES / LOVES:

  1. Colours: Pink, Red and Yellow
  2. Chocolate-everything and chocolate-anything
  3. Coffee, coffee, coffee
  4. Afternoon naps and patchwork quilts
  5. All things literary – reading; writing; books; libraries; poetry; quotes; words; idioms and crossword puzzles
  6. Elephants, donkeys, bunnies and Yorkshire terriers
  7. Piano music, ballet music, harps and cellos; hymns
  8. Tom & Jerry, Hello Kitty
  9. Homemaking: decorating, cleaning and organising
  10. Thunderstorms ending in rainbows, spring and summer!
  11. Celebrations, old fashioned tea parties and etiquette
  12. Handmade articles, original art, antique furniture and vintage collectables
  13. Cinema Nouveau, true life stories, documentaries and crime psychology
  14. Hot-air balloons, trains and donkey carts
  15. Being creative: sewing, scrapbooking and taking pictures
  16. Uneven numbers and prime numbers
  17. Uniforms, themes, traditions and symbols
  18. Being charitable, kind, sincere, just and honest
  19. Being a proud Afrikaner, living in Pretoria and all things lekker!
  20. Home-grown roses, Nasturtiums, Geraniums and Sweet Peas

DISLIKES / HATES:

  1. Colours: Orange, Mustard and Royal Blue
  2. McDonald’s and Spur
  3. Smoking, smoking, smoking
  4. Exercise
  5. Spelling errors, poor grammar, Kindles, magazines and junk mail
  6. Cats, bats, rats, circuses and zoos
  7. Panpipes, operas and Jazz
  8. Mr Bean, Playstations and video games
  9. Cooking, grocery shopping and gardening
  10. Rainfall longer than three days, wind and winter
  11. Moustaches, poor personal hygiene and unkempt feet
  12. Abstract art and soulless, unoriginal, impersonal spaces
  13. Sports commentary, soap operas, slap-stick comedies and sci-fi
  14. Motorcycles, airports and escalators
  15. Consumerism, littering and wasting without recycling
  16. Political campaigns, chaos and lawlessness
  17. Technology, the digital age, Facebook and Twitter
  18. Being stingy, thoughtless, insincere, vindictive and unfair
  19. Cruelty to the voiceless: the disabled, children, the elderly and animals
  20. Palm trees, Cycads and Carnations
 
  1. Colours: Pink, Red and Yellow

  2. Chocolate-everything and chocolate-anything

  3. Coffee, coffee, coffee

  4. Afternoon naps and patchwork quilts<

  5. All things literary – reading; writing; books; libraries; poetry; quotes; words; idioms and crossword puzzles

  6. Elephants, donkeys, bunnies and Yorkshire terriers

  7. Piano music, ballet music, harps and cellos; hymns

  8. Tom & Jerry, Hello Kitty

  9. Homemaking: decorating, cleaning and organising

  10. Thunderstorms ending in rainbows, spring and summer!

  11. Celebrations, old fashioned tea parties and etiquette

  12. Handmade articles, original art, antique furniture and vintage collectables

  13. Cinema Nouveau, true life stories, documentaries and crime psychology

  14. Hot-air balloons, trains and donkey carts

  15. Being creative: sewing, scrapbooking and taking pictures

  16. Uneven numbers and prime numbers

  17. Uniforms, themes, traditions and symbols

  18. Being charitable, kind, sincere, just and honest

  19. Being a proud Afrikaner, living in Pretoria and all things lekker!

  20. Home-grown roses, Nasturtiums, Geraniums and Sweet Peas
  1. Colours: Orange, Mustard and Royal Blue

  2. McDonald’s and Spur

  3. Smoking, smoking, smoking

  4. Exercise

  5. Spelling errors, poor grammar, Kindles, magazines and junk mail

  6. Cats, bats, rats, circuses and zoos

  7. Panpipes, operas and Jazz

  8. Mr Bean, Playstations and video games

  9. Cooking, grocery shopping and gardening

  10. Rainfall longer than three days, wind and winter

  11. Moustaches, poor personal hygiene and unkempt feet

  12. Abstract art and soulless, unoriginal, impersonal spaces

  13. Sports commentary, soap operas, slap-stick comedies and sci-fi

  14. Motorcycles, airports and escalators

  15. Consumerism, littering and wasting without recycling

  16. Political campaigns, chaos and lawlessness

  17. Technology, the digital age, Facebook and Twitter

  18. Being stingy, thoughtless, insincere, vindictive and unfair

  19. Cruelty to the voiceless: the disabled, children, the elderly and animals

  20. Palm trees, Cycads and Carnations