Dear reader, this will be my last blog post for the foreseeable future. It will come back in another iteration, of that I’m sure but it’s goodbye for now. Why, you ask? Because we have sold the Go. See. Do. SA business to our Cape Town Manager, Alison Coughlan. Ali is an absolute tourism stalwart […]
Friday, 23rd No power for half the f*cking day. A computer battery that lasts all of 45 minutes. Tralalalala! Headed to the Service Station where I was greeted with hugs and plied with a large cappuccino and a delish choc brownie before getting down to work. Alas, but their power then went out at 10.
This week we had a radio interview on Mix FM with the lovely Lundi “Khoisan” Cavernelis for #ChasingMarian which was supposed to happen on Tuesday in-studio but ended up happening later on in the week over Zoom because poor Lundi fell ill. I was simultaneously supposed to be in a story meeting on Tuesday so it was
Fi’s book launch for her fabulous book The School Gates was supposed to be held yesterday, it has sadly been cancelled due to the latest lockdown 4.3576B section 2. The book deals with the private school gang so I asked Fi about her thoughts of schooling during a pandemic and what she had to say
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I was going to write a blogpost about the Kingsmead Book Fair and my memories of it. Then I went and checked and guess what? I already wrote that last year. You can read it HERE. Yes, Covid brain is a thing. Also we are living in Groundhog Day, we’re reliving the same day over
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I had coffee with Amy Heydenrych at the Service Station last Monday and she oh-so-casually mentioned that it was the day her book, The Pact was coming out in the United States. This is A BIG DEAL, we should’ve been drinking champagne, but as we both had horrendous deadlines we were chasing, that wasn’t going
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I knew of Helen Moffett long before I met her. I think it was her famous Women’s Day rant that caught my attention (Read it here) or perhaps it was the erotica books written together with Paige Nick and Sarah Lotz. Doesn’t matter now. The point is I was IN AWE. I eventually met Helen
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Last week in Woolies Rosebank, a woman was not social distancing in the queue and stood right next to me, I mean so close, we could’ve been dating. I had to turn around and say, “Social distancing, please.” Afterwards, I felt mortified (like that prissy school prefect who always reported you for wearing the wrong
I met Makanaka for the first time when I went on the Anele Show in 2017. She was a researcher and scriptwriter for the show and I was a nervous guest, but she soon put me at ease with her warmth and wonderful sense of humour, not to mention her brilliant research skills. PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS
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