Where are the animals?

Globally, after many natural disasters, the press is filled with stories about how all kinds of animals get lost, found, rescued and reunited with families.
It’s been over a month since the xenophobia attacks. Many people are still fearful, displaced and homeless. But I have not yet come across one story about the animals [...]

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Setting Targets: 100 words/day

Ten years ago, I was doing stupid things like running marathons. Being genetically challenged, I battled to break the two-hour mark on the half marathon. So I read Tim Noakes’ ‘The Lore of Running.’ He said, “If you want to run faster, you have to run faster”. So I did. And [...]

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Winter Solstice

(This is as a result of a challenge from marijayn at onelongminute.com)
My brain has only made one connection with Winter Solstice in the last two weeks since the challenge was posted. And that is that the page on my pc remains as clean and white as a winter solstice snowdrift.

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Crazy Frog turns 3

Three years ago today, Axel F’s Crazy Frog hit the top of the UK charts. One of those whirlwind fads which took the world by storm; you either loved it or hated it.

From Wiki: “Crazy Frog is an animated character used in the marketing of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer [...]

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Goodman’s New Room Divider

“Hello, I’d like to confirm employment of Goodman Tini please.”
“Who’s speaking?”
“It’s Bianca, from Russells in Claremont.”
“OK. Hi Bianca. Yes, Goodman does work for me. Why do you want to know?”
“Goodman wants to buy a room divider on HP, and we need to establish his credit-worthiness.”
“How much is the room divider?”
“Three thousand five hundred rand plus [...]

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