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Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates

Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates : Socially distanced Panto soundtrack 2020

Panto season is a bit quiet this year, but this recording of the soundtrack of a fun show might be just the thing.

https://christopherlillicrap.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-cat-and-the-pudding-pirates

Credits

released November 26, 2020

Vocals: Annie Wensak, Jeanette Ranger, Joe Tumner, Jane Cox, Allison Hamilton and Christopher Lillicrap. Additional Vocal on ‘Shipshape’:…

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De Hoop Nature Reserve

De Hoop Nature Reserve, Cape, South Africa 2020 : Photographs by Ilona Kolbe

De Hoop Nature Reserve is probably best known for the opportunity it offers for on-land whale watching. Ilona Kolbe took a day trip recently, and took some photgraphs that show other pleasures in this diverse region.

Small Matters

The reserve doesn’t feature the “Big 5”, which makes it an extra special space for walkers, joggers and cyclists who appreciate the outdooors and are careful…

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Gaffing Season

Gaffing Season : Don't lose your head

The weather is getting chilly, and we risk losing our heads. Brainfreeze is affecting the best of minds. People all over the world have been living with the reality that their lives might end sooner than expected, either from violence, the virus or the ills of lockdown.

Given the sensitive times that worn out, stressed communities have lived with for most of this year, and the divisions in…

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Bog Roll

When Covid-19 hit the world, we hit the stores. We stocked up on necessities. What did we buy? meat, sugar, dry goods? Yes, we bought some of those, and hand santiser, too. Strangely, though – one of the most sought after items worldwide was the humble bog roll.

Later, we’d scratch our heads and wonder why these rolls of mostly recyled paper were top of the shop hit parade. As the so called…

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September

Those who have lived long enough to remember a civilian aircraft being shot down in the then Rhodesia in 1976 have long since associated September with our capacity for violence and evil. The international silence that followed rubbed caustic soda in the wounds of the bereaved.

While another attack has happened since, with far greater numbers of lives being destroyed, how does one measure the…

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Rhodesian Remembrance '20

Rhodesian Remembrance ’20

The annual July Braai in the UK hosted by the Rhodesian Pioneer Club was cancelled this year for the same reason many gatherings couldn’t go ahead.

Honours

Traditionally, on the Sunday, there is a gathering to remember those who were lost during the war, and those who have since passed.

Joe did a short chat instead, reminding us that loneliness is a killer, and urging people to support…

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Stats and Statues

Strange times. The world is floudering between political take-overs, power grabs and global recession, yet the news is crammed with two topics, stats and statues.

Stats

Stats clock up the global misery of Covid-19 for a frustrated, locked down (captive) audience. The human mind seems to stall once numbers get above a few zeros.

Statues

Statues. They are tangible, and something we…

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Virus and a Flower

Virus is everywhere. Coronavirus has gone viral in the physical, mental and emotional realms as well as in Cyberspace. It is literally everywhere. The fear and stark reality of COVID-19 has literally paused the world.

The Fight

While governments and organisations do their best to contain it, everyone is doing their bit to either fight or survive it. Don Clarke has done his bit. He is a…

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Bake Your Own Water

Bake your own water sponge cake. Rhodie recipe for sponge, happiness and resilience.

Bake your own water sponge cake. Rhodie recipe for sponge, happiness and resilience.

Hard times have always been with us. The world has changed a lot over time, but some truths prevail. I’m thinking about people. No matter how much we indulge ourselves in fun, shopping, complaining and other entertaining distractions – We become brave pioneers when adversity stares us down.

Wonder and…

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Proudly South African Moments 2019

Proudly South African Moments 2019

Bad news gushes out of Southern Africa, while good news seems trickle. This post by Tyler Leigh Vivier reminded me that life is about balance, and there is plenty to celebrate.

What else is good?

https://www.goodthingsguy.com/lifestyle/proudly-sa-accomplishment-2019/?fbclid=IwAR0eH4UVjzVrkXwMRAy-UXKk9QplaHHEemXGxyL6O5jjrb2YJHGQtk8Slxw

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A Gay Rhodesian

A Gay Rhodesian The thought never occurred to me before, I don't know why. Peter Wood changed that.

A gay Rhodesian? The thought never occurred to me before, I don’t know why. Peter Wood changed that. He wrote a book called Mud Between My Toes which ticks one name off my Christmas gift lists this year -If I can stop listening to him long enough to actually order a copy.

So what’s it about? The author describes it as a memoir based on his own school diaries from the 1970s. Stories, many…

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Lest We Forget September

Lest We Forget September

Violence and terror are expected in Africa. Her people find it easier to debate the reasons for this aggression than to dispute the truth of it. It’s been that way for a long time, maybe even forever. There are times when peace does propagate for a while – then a massacre somewhere calls time and it all starts again. A seed of hope cracks open and life climbs towards the sun once more.

Traged…

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Kitsch and Keepsakes

The divide between kitsch and keepsakes is as tiny as it is unfathomable. A blink ago, in the days when housework was a thing of mythology and terror, every home seemed to have a kist – Or chest? No, kists and chests might look the same, but they are almost polar opposites. A kist is for treasures, a chest is for the mundane.

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For the Boys..& Girls

For the Boys..& Girls

From a post by Rhodie Bushman

For the young boys out there who never went to the army…..

When you happen to come across some older men telling their army stories, you might laugh or sneer at the “old toppies talking army” again, but pause for a moment, look at their faces and you may just see that small tear forming, the slight tremble of a lip or that sad look in their eyes then consider…

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Irish Zimbabwe Diaspora

The Irish diaspora is something that I simply hadn’t thought much about until today, let alone the Irish Zimbabwe diaspora. We are creatures of habit, and I suppose the UK media focus on the African diaspora just made it possible to overlook the obvious fact that Irish migration was so widespread at one time that no family was unaffected.

An article in Irish Centralclaims that Zimbabwe is…

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Piet's Brawn Recipe

Piet’s Brawn Recipe

African Cooking, like all cuisine, is a combination of flavours brought in by settlers and travellers from all over the world – And which ingredients were available.

One man’s kitchen is another man’s kennel – Said nobody but me, ever.

African cooking Brawn has many versions, This is Piet’s.

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Mahoney

Mahoney by Andrew Joyce

by Andrew Joyce

Our great white tribe is really kind of small, and not THAT white, often misunderstood, always under (if ever) represented, and we are an archive of stories that will never be told.

Andrew Joyce has done his bit to immortalise a few of us scatterlings that blew over the ocean – In this case, from Ireland to America. It’s certainly worth a look – It’s about people like us.

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