
The TRAGEDY of my birthday – 2021
Hindsight is 20/20. Perfect vision. In future “It was 2020” will be used for all things bad. “How was your day?” won’t be ‘crappy’ but “It was 2020” or “It was BLOODY 2020!”

Hindsight is 20/20. Perfect vision. In future “It was 2020” will be used for all things bad. “How was your day?” won’t be ‘crappy’ but “It was 2020” or “It was BLOODY 2020!”

On Sunday 8 August South Africa had had 500 days of Covid, writes Gillian McAinsh, and here’s how to survive the next 500.

Do you ever make a promise? Why? Is it necessary? Is it productive? Is it reassuring? Do you keep it?

This winter is proving to be one of the coldest SA has seen. Here’s how to keep your hot water costs down.

Do you give to charity? Do you donate money to Charities? Do you perform Charitable acts and give of your time to charities? Other than a little girl named Charity and in the title of several songs, Charity is a Myth. AaaaaaH – Do I hear you rebel and smugly think BS because you answered “Yes” to the questions? First, read on and you might change your mind. Charity doesn’t exist in its purest sense.

Getting a vaccine will not impact your life insurance now, but not getting one may affect your life insurance in future.

Not quite Jane Austen and not necessarily in that order … but possibly about manners and money.

I went to a school that was, shall we say, lenient in the comportment department. We greeted corridor-strolling teachers with a jaunty high five — or not at all. We were more rowdy than respectful. More passionate than polite.

What we may consider as the great technological advances since the 1960s, is an abomination, a human rights violation. Normal people simply cannot afford to live in our world anymore.

In the last few years, I’ve written a range of feature articles covering the development of the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. Those pieces demanded