Author Archives: Administrator
Bubbly start to the party season at the Summer Elegance Festival at The House of Krone
ALTHOUGH the theme for this year’s Summer Elegance Festival – which took place at The House of Krone on the Twee Jonge Gezellen estate near Tulbagh on Saturday, December 8 – was “Put Your Hat On”, Summer chose to take … Continue reading
An open letter to Minister Angie Motshekga
Minister Angie Motshekga Department of Basic Education South Africa 21 November 2012 Dear Minister Motshekga, iPads to the rescue On Saturday, exactly 20 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II said, “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back … Continue reading
Laugh more, produce more
IS it me or are people generally looking more miserable every day? Glance at the motorists around you the next time you’re inching your way to work. Observe the profusion of down-turned mouths and the wretched fields of furrowed brows. … Continue reading
Group affirmation, also known as the “lurve bath”
GROUP affirmation, I imagine, is something like I imagine group sex to be, I imagine: some get more out of it than others, I imagine – not that I think about it often, really. This occurred to me as I … Continue reading
Scarf, jacket, hat and video chat
ONE of the great advantages of working alone from home, as I do, is that on days on which I have no appointments scheduled, I don’t have to get dollied up. On such occasions, when deadlines demand – and having … Continue reading
Dancing queen
I first blogged briefly about Mama Lee, who lives on the luxury liner, Crystal Serenity when I met her on board in the Mediterranean last year. I wrote about her and her love for dancing at greater length in this … Continue reading
Of man, mouse and dirty politics
SELDOM a day passes that another smart technology isn’t launched. But, every so often, Mother Nature pulls in to remind us who really runs the show. Late last year, the Wall Street Journal revealed that, in the US, “smart corn” … Continue reading
A glowing account of glühwein
PICTURE the scene: The year is 1321 and we are in the cold, poorly-lit confines of the wine cellar in an ancient monastery, which is built on the steep, snowy slopes above a small village in Württemberg, Germany. Brother Klaus … Continue reading
Whittling a creative new life in SA
ROGER Bongolomba was very young when he learned to how to craft simple toys, figurines and other objects from wood. Growing up in Kinshasa on the southern bank of the Congo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he watched his … Continue reading
Of beetles, bulls**t and bunkering down in SA
IT WAS Vincent van Gogh, I think, who said something about great things being achieved by bringing a series of small things together, which is exactly what I thought while reading about a recent development in eco-technology. The article, published … Continue reading
Penny Haw 