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I’m Amazed
I left the all girl South African band, The Insisters, in the early 80s. I went a single solo – one seven inch single released. ‘I’m Amazed’ backed by ‘Someone’ received good reviews even though it didn’t sell. I have been truly amazed that over the years – some, what, 30 years…
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Pottering in Paternoster
Why did Paternoster end up on my bucket list ? I am not sure. I have read much about it in the travel sections of the newspapers over the years. The description of a one road town with some fine restaurants near the beach probably captured my brain’s eye. It…
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Pass on the Pop-Up Grill
I don’t complain much about restaurants and bistro’s, it takes a lot to make me a really unhappy patron, but the Pop-Up Grill at Clearwater Mall, on the West Rand of Johannesburg was quite an astonishing experience. Having seen that a new restaurant was due to open over the last…
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Cuisine Cruising in the Cape
It’s not often we spend a full week in the fairest Cape, but we did in May, with four days in the Cape Town area and then a drive up the West Coast to Paternoster for the weekend. Eating out is what it’s all about when away: new restaurants, new…
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Make A Choice: Care-Giver or Granny Beater
South Africa’s best current affairs/magazine tv programme Carte Blanche recently aired a programme on a pensioner in frail care being attacked by their care-giver. The most awful and disturbing footage substantiated the accusations. Now, I have always had a weak spot for elderly people, I am not sure where it…
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Jozi Interrupted
As summer crawled into autumn and crawled into winter I haven’t been out and about much in Johannesburg. So, deciding to brush the cobwebs off, I decided it was time for us to go plane ‘shooting’, we picked up our cameras, jumped into the car and headed off to O.R.Tambo…
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