EFFUSIVELY AFFLUENT FROM FRIENDSHIPS
cindyphillips “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin…
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CAN WE UNRAVEL THE BAMBOOZLE?
We’ve got ourselves a new cabinet, a brand new South African government; anything could happen. It’s all subjunctive, it’s all ‘what if this happens’, or ‘why didn’t they…’, that’s what…
Friday Book Review. DOG HOTEL
(Children’s Fiction) The other day I visited a real-life Dog Hotel built alongside the beautifully hidden ancient ruins of a Settler farmhouse in my village. I often stop there in…
A PRESCRIPTION FOR MESHUGGE MEDICINE
It’s just as well we can’t foretell the future, because if anyone had told me twenty years ago that I would be given strict medical orders to blog every day…
COFFEE WITH A SOBER BUTCHER
The invaluable Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany references booze on almost every page, but – astonishingly – has only a handful of mentions of coffee! More surprising for a gourmet’s…
STREAMING A SUNDAY STOMP DOWN MEMORY LANE
They are burying the Queen in London on Monday. In Bathurst I won’t be able to live stream proceedings in London, because Her Royal Highness’ grandfather caused the dismal legacy…
REGARDING THE WALK
flaneuse / noun:the dictionaries explain only that it is the feminine of flaneur “And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country.Because he loved true things, he…