Category Archives: emigration

Learning the hard way

By 6000 | 6000 | December 13, 2008

“Ooh!” “Ha ha!” “ROOOOOOOOOAR!” It’s been a “fun” morning. You know – “fun”? Like going to a local shopping mall with hopelessly inadequate parking 12 days before christmas. “Fun”.  Yet, desperate to get into the festive spirit, despite the temperature outside being in excess of 30°C, we had headed out in search of a christmas [...]

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Missing “home”…

By 6000 | 6000 | August 11, 2008

If there is one thing I miss about living in the UK more than any other, it is the music. While SA has it’s fair share of decent bands and artists (and I’ve mentioned them more than once or twice on here), the music scene just doesn’t compare to the UK. I love to find [...]

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Get the balance right

By 6000 | 6000 | June 4, 2008

Actually, there’s more to this post than just quoting Depeche Mode songs, but… Don’t take this way, don’t take that way Straight down the middle until next Thursday Push to the left, back to the right Twist and turn til you’ve got it right. Being the editor of a hugely popular international website brand isn’t [...]

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South Africa’s Xenophobic Attacks

By 6000 | 6000 | May 19, 2008

We, more than many other nations, should know better. We should know better because we have just emerged from more than three centuries of the horror of settler colonialism and apartheid… This madness has to stop. There is simply no justification for attacking people simply because they are not South African nationals. Editorial, City Press [...]

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This is how I remind me

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2008

Is it just the drugs, or when you get to my age, does your short term wotsit start to fail? I find myself using words like wotsit instead of the specific noun I should have used – just like my grandmother used to do. Thingumie is only a short time away now. And from there I’ll start calling my [...]

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