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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,...

Win with SITC and Zespri kiwifruit

Sep 9, 2013 | Food, Video clips, WIN

For the next two weeks I’ll be participating in the Zespri kiwifruit challenge, finding interesting ways of incorporating this super vitamin C fruit to my days. I’ll be sharing tips, facts, recipes, and pictures on my blog, Facebook and Google+ pages, and Twitter, so...

10 000 views!

May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized

I've been anxiously keeping an eye on my stats since Jade pointed out that I was close to reaching 10K views (I hadn't even noticed that; only that the blog has shown great growth). Obviously participating in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge helped me get here, as did...