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Baby, bellies and bums
Has to be said in all of the furore over the Royal baby that one thing has been overlooked. Not the weight, name, significance, nor indeed the sex of this baby…but actually the fact that Kate’s removal from public life in the weeks prior to birthing said prince has given her a welcome reprieve. Not…
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Fundamenta eius super montibus sanctis
To my knowledge no one has ever described me as a princess. In fact, as my family continually remind me the doctor told Marian I was to be a boy and upon my birth she demanded I be returned. Not exactly an auspicious start, but one that saw me playing with the boys or stones…
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Ends and means
Despite the move to Cape Town and following more South Africans than folks back home it would have been well on impossible to ignore the near constant #flegs updates on twitter. And once again, home is on the news for all the wrong reasons. I didn’t know whether to pack my winter woollies or riot…
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My Way
Death comes to us all. It can be sudden or a drawn out process that saps the strength and forbearance of not just the person but all those around them. But it comes to us all. It is never easy. It is never welcome. We want to hold on in the hope that the person…
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What foot do you kick with?
I’ve never really had to think about my race that much. Luckily for me, growing up in Northern Ireland wasn’t that tough. I know for others it has been. But I managed to largely avoid the pitfalls that could have come with being a black/brown face in a country where our primary school teacher claimed…
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a few of my favourite things
Teardrops on achilleas and bears that are smitten Unending errands for warm woollen mittens Small little packages that are called ming These are a few of my favourite things Fatty pork scratchings and pink books for doodles Doorbells and wide backs and pictures of poodles Dynamite horses that don’t fly or have wings These are…
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Bad things come in threes
And I’m not talking about tweedle dee, dumb and dumber who were my trusty guides for a trip into the bush today. It started with the news that the equipment we were to pick up could not be moved to a new site…due to the grain in the field needing to be harvest. Fine said…
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the models are coming
Summer is coming and with it apparently the models. At first I didn’t realise why the streets, coffee shops and restaurants were filled with stick insects sipping water and smoking furiously. But then I heard it. The models are coming… Summer in Cape Town is filled with models on shoots making mere mortals such as…
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