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Celebrate Summer with Smiths Gins

by Martha van Zyl | 17/10/2025 | Drinks | 0 Comments

Discover Smiths Gins – South Africa’s award-winning small-batch gin range, now available exclusively on Takealot from 27 October 2025. Celebrate summer with soul, flavour, and handcrafted perfection. A Toast to South African Spirit There’s something magical about a...

The Roses: A Softer Spin on a Brutal Classic

by Martha van Zyl | 29/08/2025 | Entertainment | 0 Comments

The decision to retitle the new adaptation of Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses as simply The Roses feels deliberate. Where Adler’s novel and its 1989 film version, directed by Danny DeVito and starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, revelled in the poisonous...

Book with Race Day Events for the drive of a lifetime

by Martha van Zyl | 26/08/2025 | Automotive | 0 Comments

Lume Agency and Race Car Events recently invited me to a turbo-charged, fuel-injection, high-octane morning that I'll never forget. Wait, let me check if there's any other petrolhead jargon I can throw in here. Nope, all good for now 🤭🏎️ Race Day Events gives you the...

The Shape of Monsters is Five Stars

by Martha van Zyl | 18/07/2025 | Books | 0 Comments

Author CL Hellisen sent me a link for an early listen of their Audible Original, The Shape of Monsters. I've set myself the task of reading 365 books this year. Yes, you read that right. Because with audio I get to read so much more while I'm multitasking. To date,...

Staying grounded for a while

Jul 10, 2013 | Beauty, Shopping

My awesome shoe-buying stalker (yes, there are standards if you want to stalk me), recently bought me these very high, very smart boots (I'm guessing as a house-warming present. Also, I didn't have heeled black boots and winter in Jo'burg's cruel). Yesterday wasn't...

Happy birthday to two phenomenal women

May 11, 2013 | Fashion

Genevieve is the poster child for the saying "dynamite comes in small packages"; she can get anything done and is always friendly and fashionable (except for going to the Justin Bieber concert, but each to his own ;)). I met Helena 14 years ago, and she's had a huge...