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Listening to the tributes about my great grandmother Moewaka Jane Rapana (or Nama as she was affectionately called) it wasn’t hard to imagine her walking between us all standing there. It seemed fitting that she would rest on the high hill overlooking her beloved
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The festive season is a mere three months away and that makes the thought of sparkling things adventuresome. Liquid sparkling things I mean. The French have got the champagne market all sewn up, Reims in particular. And while we mere mortals can only aspire to
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There’s something in the air. Some cosmic concentration that requires me to look more closely at my life. Cleaning out the garage as my old friend Wordman would say. Do you feel it? Do you
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Pulling up the roman blinds that peer sleepily into my back garden, I come upon the early morning sun kissing *Himself (the Macadamia Nut tree outside my window) on both cheeks, in the warmingly European manner. Left cheek, right cheek and left cheek again.
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Autumn has a way of softening the human heart like no other season. It’s a time in which there is a quiet, unobtrusive turning over of the heart’s soil and despite those seemingly modest machinations, we are left in no doubt a difference has been made, deep in our soul. How?
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