Au Revoir

In four sleeps, I will be here: Cape Town, my favourite city in the whole world. I can already smell the sea. I am also going to be at Kersefontein, Plettenberg Bay, Sedgefield and the Garden Route Game Lodge for the wedding of two of my favourite people in the whole world. I am so [...]

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I’d Like to Thank My Mother

It’s award season here at Charlotte’s Web. While I’d like to say I’ve been styled and primped to within an inch of my life, I am sitting here in my pyjamas wrapped in a big fleece blankie. But that’s the cool thing about blogging – you can accept awards from the sofa, without having to [...]

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Happy Birthday, dear Blog

It’s my blog’s birthday today. Three years of mind burps, fairytales, rants and soul-revealing. Three years of making friends (some of whom I’ve now actually met). Three years of laughing at the Germans (Germans, I love you, truly I do, but sometimes you are funny. I mean who else would call a hair salon “Hairkillers”? [...]

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Revolutionary Road

(Spoiler alert!) I have just finished reading Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, on which the current movie starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio is based. I haven’t seen the film, and on the basis of the book – no matter how winsome and well-coiffed Kate and Leo may be – I won’t. It’s not that [...]

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Hold This Space

You may have noticed some inactivity here. I think I am suffering blog fatigue – I have been blogging for almost three years now and seem to have run out of voomah. It’s not through lack of things to write about. I am reading widely, trying to finish the first draft of my novel, am [...]

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