So many lovely things happened in the three days I was in Franschhoek, dear reader that it would be a looooong, boring tome if I had to tell you all of them. And before people start coming for me and I get cancelled on Booktok can I just say that ALL moments at #FLF23 were […]
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Got up at 6.30 am to edit scripts. Fed cats. No presents from them. Little brats. Got uber to Rosebank as my car is in the shop and I didn’t feel like driving the husband’s car which is similar to a tank. I call it the pimp-mobile. Whilst in uber, got call from the Lastborn.
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This is true, on a personal level because really would you want to hang out with someone who doesn’t think much of you, who’s mean or critical or makes you feel bad about yourself? Actually, the weird answer to that is ‘sometimes we do’ especially if that’s what we grew up with because that is
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Dear reader, in the past week besides rewriting my rewrites, I also managed to squeeze in a meeting with fab friend and colleague, Tammy Lewis-Houghting. Tammy optioned my second novel Things Unseen back in 2018. It was supposed to be turned into a limited drama series but alas the company she was with at the
Seeing it is the month of lurrrrrve, I thought I’d sex things up a bit and talk about the ten things I find most erotic: Apparently, boreholes are naughty because they lower the water table or something. I have no idea if this is indeed true and I still fantasise about a long, long, LONG…borehole.
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People in Cape Town look at you rather pityingly when you say that you’re from Joburg and that you’re going BACK like whyyyyyyyyy? I know this because we spent four days last week in Cape Town, staying at our friends’ fabulous apartment, getting the Lastborn settled in at UCT. On the morning of our departure,
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It’s KeDezemba, dear readers, the last month of the year (although as we know, December is not just a month, it’s a season) and what a year it’s been. We’re coming up to our third year anniversary of the pandemic. In fact, we’ve most likely surpassed it as I’m sure I read somewhere that although
The preparation for a book fair, particularly if you are chairing panels begins a good few days before the actual fair. I was in conversation with a chef, namely Sifo – the Cooking Husband as well as preparing a section of our panel for Chasing Marian so I had a fair amount of prep to do. I
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After putting it off, and putting it off and putting it off again, we went for our Roro booster shots last Friday arvie at Dischem Victory Park. The nurse bemoaned the fact that everyone seemed to be arriving in the afternoon after she had sat around all morning twiddling her thumbs. Reader, I made up
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It is the Kingsmead Book Fair on Saturday, 21 May 2022 which means it’s time to go and peruse the panels and BOOK. Don’t leave it too late, dear reader, or you might find you don’t get to see your fave authors in action. It’s so exciting that the fair is going to be an in-person
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