Celebrate Summer with Smiths Gins
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
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
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
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,...
One day when I’m all grown up…

One day when I’m all grown up…

The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker – two of these are skills/hobbies almost anyone can take up and make a living of. I have three crafts I'd love to learn and live off. Don't get me wrong; I love doing social media, but keeping my hands busy and creating...

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Tips to secure corporate sponsorship

Tips to secure corporate sponsorship

It drives me to tears, finding a message in my Facebook inbox that reads a little something like this: “Ho peeps im a young man 20 years of age am just looking 4 a sponsor can u please me. Cz am tryng 2 do some business?” Where do I start? The platform, I guess, is as...

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Girl’s night out – geek style!

Girl’s night out – geek style!

If you are interested in meeting and networking with other women keen on tech and gadgets, read more about Girl Geek Dinners and make sure you sign up for the next event. The April dinner was held at The Oak Leaf in Sandton. The venue is versatile and offer both...

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What your Twitter Bio really means

What your Twitter Bio really means

I still haven't met @PopcornCandi (despite being in the same venue at least twice this year!), and I've just started following her blog. I LOVE Twitter, and this post made me snort coffee all over my laptop. After reading this I looked at my bio again, and yes, it is...

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How to have coffee with an influencer (or me)

How to have coffee with an influencer (or me)

Although I've been following (and chatting with) Debby Edelstein on Twitter for a while, I still haven't met her in person. She shares some great tips on building a strong network and the law of meeting karma. Thanks for allowing me to share this, Debby! Related...

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Build an audience hungry for more

Build an audience hungry for more

I started an internship this year, that turned into the best job I've had all my life 🙂 Part of what I do is write the occasional blog post, like this one about creating content that bring your readers back. I'm not sure if I'm practicing this particular sermon, but...

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Disclaimers, integrity, and transparency

Disclaimers, integrity, and transparency

There's been a lot of talk recently about the regulation of the blogging community, with bloggers being encouraged to take a pledge to always be honest to their readers. It's great and definitely a step in the right direction, but at the same time I'm amazed that it...

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The last thing to be said about 2012

The last thing to be said about 2012

I was going to do a post about all of my favourite things and places I've discovered during 2012, but seeing as how I only write about really fabulous buys, eats, and visits, I thought it might be a bit pointless, and my readers might find it repetitive. So instead,...

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