When ‘What’ comes before ‘Why’ How many times when weight loss crops up in a conversation, is the first question often asked, “So what are you allowed to eat?” After which we start listing the items that ‘The Diet’ prescribes we should eat – as well as when, and how much … This drives me…
My journey to a healthier me!
Celebrate a range of milestones. It’s not just about the weight. You are making a conscious lifestyle change – so why do you need to be rewarded for that?
The long and the short of it – Tails of Trust …
An unlikely friendship From the drain he came. I estimate he had lived there for five years at least. Always on the run. Trying to be as unobtrusive as possible in order to survive. Foraging for food when not being fed by the Cat Lady of the complex. We called him DrainCat. From Alberton he came,…
Art is all around us
Art doesn’t have hang in a quiet gallery somewhere. Art is all around us. My city, Johannesburg, is an urban gallery and the exhibits change constantly. The purple collection is on view for a limited time only. Jacaranda trees in their short sweet season of lilac bloom and the blue Agapanthus are all bursting into…
Pretty Cat – my Angel Cat
Angels come to us in many different presence. Pretty Cat was an angel sent to me in a difficult and lonely time and we found solace in each other’s company. Our townhouse complex is home to a number of families who have cats. Once upon a time, there was a single mom with two naughty…
Jacaranda Nostalgia
One of my most favourite and almost spiritual views of all is the vista of the urban forest that is Johannesburg as experienced from the terrace of the Westcliff Hotel. The best time for a visit to the Westcliff Hotel for me is during the jacaranda season in late October. My first excursion to…
Bring us the bill please!
It’s just my luck. It’s one of the hazards of eating in public places… Lately, I have landed up next to a table, when eating out that has a self opinionated dramatic monologue being delivered in a manner that intrudes on any attempt at tranquil conversation. I can’t understand how some people can talk so…
Taking time to snap a dandelion…
I’m observant. I often see things framed in a photo I feel I should take or wish I had taken. Whimsical moments that come our way when we choose to see them. As I was locking the front door leaving for work one morning last week – laden with my briefcase, my handbag, my sunglasses,…
Every plate has its day …
I have always loved beautiful plates. Older plates and odd ones picked up at flea markets and little bric-a-brac shops. When we lived in Gonubie, East London , there was a little antique and collectible shop on Main Road called Talisman. It was a quaint little shop filled with meticulously and lovingly restored treasures. The…
Thriving or surviving?
Yesterday I spotted the first rose of summer in my garden. A soft pink bloom on a bush that I bought and planted only one year ago. This will be its first settled season. This morning I went out for a closer inspection and on one floribunda bush only – counted 65 buds waiting to…
A Rose-Scented Life 