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Dawn of the Beautiful Dream…
If you believe it (what with howling gales, wild waves and belting rain) this month marks our ascent into Spring. And after a horrid winter of despair, disillusion, destruction, death, false prophets and fool’s gold I’d say we’re due a … Continue reading
Posted in What's on the decks...
Tagged (don't) Tremble, (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World, 2 Bodies 1 Heart, Above the Bones, After The Storm, Alexi Murdoch, All My Days, All The Wine, All Time High, Angels and Airwaves, Are You The One?, At My Most Beautiful, Begin Again, Bishop Allen, Bob Schneider, Bright Eyes, Can’t Take It In, Cradle Song, Dawn of the Beautiful Dream, Do Ya, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Eric Himan, Everlast, Flower Parts, Great Lake Swimmers, Heart to Heart, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, home, Hotel Yorba, I Do, I Like The Way This Is Going, I Really Need Love, If My Heart Was a House, Imogen Heap, John Denver, Just Jinger, Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer, Love Song, Low Anthem, Mishka, Mumford and Sons, Neil Nathan, Nick Cave, No Urgency, Noah and the Whale, Now We Are Free, Origin of Love, Owl City, Oxygen, Partner’s H.P., Placebo, REM, Rita Coolidge, Roll On Arte, Safer, Shriekback, The Ancient Common Sense of Things, The Beautiful Girls, The Bees, The Cure, The Eels, The Felice Brothers, The Jolly Boys, The National, The Passenger, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Veils, The Waterboys, The White Stripes, The XX, Thrown Right At Me, True Blue, Tuesday Morning, Unison Falling Into Harmony, Universal Hall, Valkyrie Missile, VCR, We Will Shine Like Gold, Willy Mason, Wreckless Eric, Xavier Rudd
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(light) housekeeping…
I may have mentioned before that I’ve a bit of ‘thing’ for lighthouses. Last week I visited two: one’s on my proverbial doorstep in Kommetjie (with the added bonus of a little stone labyrinth) while the other’s further afield and … Continue reading
Posted in ancient precious things, eX-files, What's on the decks...
Tagged Califone, Cape Agulhas, Cape St Francis, collie, compass, Danger Point, Dream King, Duke D. Nile, Funeral Singers, Gansbaai, Green Point, home, kiss, Kommetjie, Labyrinth, lighthouse, love, Ma Nguni, moon, north star, Player, rainbows, Slangkop, Southern Hemisphere, Stanford, The Bee Whisperer, The Drama Queen, Umhlanga Rocks, US, visitor
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without…
I’m on a slow curve up, rising gently like a tide or swelling moon. Still, a certain sadness pervades; things feel a little heavy, flat; heart scarred and scoured. Ultimately: tired. But. Gradually, I’m reengaging. A slow strength is growing … Continue reading
Posted in Even cowgirls get the blues, Lines and rhymes...
Tagged African, Amazon, Ben, Botanical Gardens, Death, ee cummings, fish eagle, good-bye, grave, Havaianas, heart, home, letting go, Margate, Midmar, strength, swallows, Texan, The Parlotones, Wild Card, zebra
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how to: (oddest) first date
Prequel First few steps are rather exacting so I’ll forgive you if you wisely opt to give them a miss: unexpectedly fall in love with a good man you’ve know for a long time, move into a dream house with … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships and new hope
Tagged break up, Dax, home, Hout Bay, scarlet, self destructive
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‘you got to know when to hold ‘em…’
…lyrics from Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” I’m sitting in a lovely little café in Constantia called Pastis, nibbling a club sandwich and sipping one strong espresso in a cup which wryly reads “some like it black”. TH is at home, it … Continue reading
Posted in Eating out, Retail therapy
Tagged Argus, B+D, cafe, competition, Constantia, home, Kenny Rogers, Kindle, Lana, Leatherman, Llundudno, Pastis, Sandy Bay, TH (the Hag), Virgin Active
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oh!oh!oh! those sharp zero’s!
Dax has great taste in music – it’s one of the things I love about the man. A couple of nights ago we were working at the dining room table (I know, I know, my mother would be utterly appalled) and … Continue reading
