After a chat with Sasha in September last year, we agreed to cancel DSTV. It was costing a fortune and besides a bit of sport and continuous reruns, there was no value in it. This meant that our weekends now needed to be filled with fun, outdoor […]
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As the father of a dance loving, acrobatics crazy, twelve year old daughter, I just had to share this with you! If you can watch this without tears in your eyes you are more of a man than me (or less perhaps)
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Nineteen Eighty Four began with such promise. My mother was well, my army days were over, it was summer and all was good in the world, for a while that is. I was job hunting, had been for a couple of interviews, the most promising was with […]
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Gratitude lists are quite the rage on Facebook at the moment and although I have sworn blindly that I will not start my own I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you today without mentioning your names. Listen carefully and I […]
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In 1979, young dumb and full of [energy] I matriculated from Highlands Boys and headed off to Wits University. It was a time of wine, women and song. The songs were by The Rolling Stones, the women were free and easy and I always promised I would […]
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As spring slowly descends here in the Southern Hemisphere, the days get a little longer, the nights a little warmer, we all start to unwrap ourselves from our warm warm clothes and our thoughts turn to shedding a few unwanted pounds. It seems like a natural progression […]
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“Straight out of left field” so the saying goes and the day my mom called us in and told us she was going to ask my dad to leave, I simply had no idea why. I had never seen them fight or argue, I had no inkling […]
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A Modern Man’s Guide to Raising a Daughter I was born in September of 1961 in Pretoria, South Africa, the first child of Harry & Sadie. My childhood, although a bit of a blur by now, was a happy one. Growing up in the 60s and 70s […]
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A Modern Man’s Guide to Raising a Daughter To my beautiful daughter Sasha Eve Said who has always been the joy in my heart and the smile on my face. “If I could give you but one gift, it would be to see yourself through my eyes […]
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I am often asked how I am able to get great service from waitstaff when I go out. let me assure you it is not because they have my picture posted on the notice board under “Big Tippers” or “Friggin Blog Writers” it is because after almost […]
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