If you haven\’t yet called Harold\’s Hotline for your offering of Valentine\’s Day schmaltz, you still have all day to figure out where to get red roses and blue violets! Valentine\’s Day is a time to celebrate love and affection. People have traditionally exchanged gifts, chocolates, flowers, and cards to show their love and appreciation […]
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Storytelling on television has been a key aspect of entertaining and engaging audiences for decades. From the late 70’s, television has become a staple with South African audiences, from bunny-ears, decoders to dishes, and streaming devices. Dallas, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Live Sport, Noot Vir Noot, Surf Show Pick A Box and the on-set
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I grew up in a time when children were to be seen not heard. The allure of technology was simply personified by the Cosby Show on TV4 and a video machine that didn’t have a remote. Dallas ruled supreme on Tuesday nights and if I saved the monies from my chores, for more than a
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There’s always a tangible level of exhaustion and excitement at this time of year. Reconciliation Day often marks the first day of the year end break, and with the glorious summer weather, December is the time that we, as South Africans, enjoy time off. Road trips, stay-cations, mini-projects, and moments, Dezemba is a whole mood!
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In 38 days from now, courier companies will be logging pick-up requests for unwanted gifts that came in the wrong size, colour, design, and shape. Crackers will have been pulled and some of us will already be planning when to re-box the tree and decorations. In 38 days Christmas 2022 will have come and gone.
Creative people ask questions, nurture ideas, open minds, develop thoughts, unsettle the status quo, motivate the mind’s eye, are curious, understand the square peg and the round hole, embrace challenge, inspire confidence, shift paradigms, and observe quietly. Creative people engage, enhance, and embellish the everyday. Creative people shift every aspect of society, sometimes at full
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Dear Mentally Well Self Re: Dear Mentally Well Self At the end of Mental Health Awareness Month, take the opportunity to consider your own mental wellness and encourage others to do the same.
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I spotted the first festive decorations last weekend, they formed part of a store display, and they weren’t tucked away as an afterthought. The display was deliberate, obvious and it was front and centre to the consumer. I think it fair to consider myself “tinsled” for 2022! Are we being deliberate and obvious in our
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As we enter the final quarter of the year, most of us start feeling the year-end crunch. Crunch time on budgets, time, scheduling, inventory, and ideas. Black Friday, Halloween and the Festive Season are all looming with New Years, Back to School and Valentine’s Day waiting patiently in the wings for the perfectly timed entrances.
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What a rich, colourful, beautiful, and inspiring weekend. As a nation, South Africans have always had “gees”. We are, after all, the home of the vuvuzela, biltong, the makarapa, and umqombothi. Give us an opportunity, and we’ll place the SA flag on the side mirrors of a car, or wear it triumphantly after winning a
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“And we’re baaaaaaack!” You may be forgiven if you thought I was talking about load shedding, because this too is back, but earlier in the week I heard a familiar voice, and it wasn’t Harold, from Harold’s Relationship Hotline. It was the much loved Buddy, the talking dog that has made his way into several
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Last week I spotted an article that made mention that there were 100 days before Christmas. It feels like a few weeks back that I removed Boney M and Michael Bublé from my phone and now it seems like I need to start looking for the Little Drummer Boy and an endless list of gifts! Whilst listening
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