Category: Making a Home
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Podcast: Ferial Haffajee, a shy radical & fighter for Change
Ferial sat down with Ruda to chat about change, race, the future of media, and the continuing battle to make sense of our mad and mixed-up nation.
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How to hunt down the home of your dreams
The problem is the concept of a perfect house in the first place. Even if you build your own home, as I learnt from experience, cost limits are always going to mean compromise. So how do you find your nearly perfect home at the perfect price?
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The lovely, lazy joys of being a couch potato family
If we’re feeling altogether slothful, it’s a race to the couch for who gets the best spot, and who picks the movie. Sometimes, if we’re exceptionally lucky, our dogs will even let us enjoy the full couch experience, instead of snuggling in with us. Sometimes, but not often.
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How John McInroy is changing the world, one pair of red socks at a time
Activist for change, social entrepreneur, elite endurance athlete, John McInroy is a role-model of the creed he lives by: “Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu”. A person is only a person through other people.
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Every drought has a silver lining
My Icebergs have been reduced to ice dumps, some of the hibiscus and camellia trees never made it past their toddler years, and the only shrubs and climbers standing in 2018, are the unconventional beauties.
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How my bed became the love of my life
When I was circling the drain a year later and faced with the possibility of never going home to my bed again and having a cold steel hospital bed instead, I learnt that nothing else matters other than my health and the people I love.
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How I fell in love in a moment in Dubai
One evening on my daily run, wading through the crowd on the bridge at Souk Al Bahar, the musical fountain started up. Instantly a forest of hands went up, each m clutching a mobile phone to record the sight – and BAM! – I suddenly realised that I was living through my mobile phone’s camera.
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The things I love most about not having a proper job
You are your own CEO, HR manager, head of IT credit control clerk, bookkeeper, marketing manager and public relations officer. And that’s just before 10am.
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The cool secret of my office love affair
I am in love, a love that I never thought possible. After all who in their right mind could fall in love with their office?
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When love is like the falling rain
Our reality now is living with a bath no longer used for bathing, but storage for grey water. It’s plastic containers scattered all over the garden to catch the little rain that falls, a bucket in the shower, and a container in every sink in the house.