Category: Change moments
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Why You Won’t See Me in the Kitchen during a Stormers Match
The Stormers Bug bit me when, by virtue of my job, I started to be invited to watch rugby at the Newlands box with a client. What started out as a ‘nice day out’ with my husband has ended as passionate love for rugby and what it stands for.
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Happiness is a Smaller Home, Filled With Love & Laughter
When you own a big house, it comes with complications. When it’s time to replace the gutters, for example, there are what feels like kilometres of guttering to replace. The garden takes a lot of time and effort to maintain just to a tidy standard.
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Thank You For My Lovely New House, Barack Obama
When I met my husband, he’d just gone halfies on a townhouse with his brother Phil. A sprawling bachelor pad with a case of Hansa and another case of Red Bull by the front door, and a kitchen counter that functioned solely as a place to put greasy takeaway boxes and the keys to their…
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How I Lost My Heart to Rugby in the 90s
Suddenly rugby was transformed from something that smelly Michealhouse boys did to get the attention of the A team hockey girls, into a point of national pride. I HAD to get on top of this game.
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Move over Trevor, here come the new Goliaths of comedy
Nicholas Goliath was working as a call centre operator, a job he loathed, when he rose to the challenge of taking the mic at open night in a Joburg comedy club.
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Why I Want My Son to Play Rugby
Putting your body on the line is a privilege. It is not state-sponsored violence. It is ritualised warfare, yes, but with rules. Aggression, channelled, is a powerful thing, which can move mountains.
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How Not to Get Fired on Your First Day at Work
If you follow these rules and unless you have lied massively on your CV and have no hope of actually ever being able to do your new job … you should be golden.