Category: Experience

Pretty in pink (nails that is)

“You can tell a lot about a woman from her hands,” so the saying goes. Being an habitual nail and cuticle biter, I never put much stock in this. I thought manicured fingers showed that you literally had too much time on your hands. Mine showed that I was stressed and trying very hard not…
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January 25, 2010
Buffelsbaai, slap chips & shell tortoises

Buffels is such an under-rated beach holiday spot, can’t really call it a town. There’s that one all-purpose store on the beachfront, stocking everything from fishing gear to pots to sherbet straws to tortoises made from seashells.
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January 6, 2010
Possessions

* My jewellery. I house it all in an art supplies box. None of it is really valuable, but certain pieces are talismans of memory. The flower necklace my friend Leanne gave me. The Geraldine Fenn lion pendant my husband gave me for our first anniversary. The Fossil watch my parents gave me on my…
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December 17, 2009
Things that made me smile this week

• Writing a short story, even though it was for a client. • Seeing the new Hospital Bend freeway take shape. • Seeing Cape Town Stadium all the way from De Waal Drive. • A smiling old lady with a floral umbrella and matching raincoat. • My mother chatting to me on facebook (she couldn’t…
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November 13, 2009