My thoughts about the world
“One of the writers on the internet who tell people what they need to do to be a proper writer recently said you should write about what keeps you awake at night…” so starts a piece of writing by Tom Cox.
Cox then proceeds to write beautifully about what it is that keeps him awake at night – mostly, one of his cats loudly eating mice that it has caught.
Continue readingHomesteading means living a self-sufficient lifestyle, with little help from others. Can you be a homesteader in a Cape Town suburb? Sort of…
Wrapping a present for my mother’s birthday, I remarked to assembled family members: “We are now full members of the middle classes.”
Continue readingAn interview with Jack Seddon, bottler of honey and breaker of business models. What if we all went for total honesty in business?
When you buy something in a supermarket, how much do you know about it really? Say it’s a bottle of honey – where did the honey come from, where was it bottled, how did it get to that shelf?
Continue readingTo use make-up, or not? I’ve always been in the camp of keeping it to a minimum but that could change…
My ideas of ways to dress and how I look are firmly held,
And some of them are just ridiculous.
Continue readingCars are fossil-fuel-guzzling dinosaurs. And yet, they meet human needs, and capture our hearts, in ways that public transport just does not…
In August 1996, I bought a car – out of the box, brand new.
Until that point, I’d owned two second-hand cars, with various idiosyncrasies. The first, a Ford Escort, listed endearingly to one side, and yet made several 1000km trips from Cape Town to East London and back. The car was stolen while I was at a music concert, and found burnt out and ruined.
Continue readingI’ve been dabbling at bodyboarding for several years, but things have now taken a turn for the serious.
(Read: What I have learned while wearing a wetsuit)
Continue readingTraining is big business. From online courses to workplace workshops, skills development is a Big Thing. But why does it cost so much?
The price of training comes down to time.
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