Category Archives: Writing

Do you want to receive one of Flat Kathy’s Very Special Postcards?

Posted on Wednesday, 6 March 2013 by

Flat Kathy has asked for permission to write a guest post on my blog, because she has some very exciting news: “When was the last time that you received a postcard or a letter in the mail? I don’t mean … Continue reading →

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Walking around with Flat Kathy: An introduction to a magical world?

Posted on Thursday, 14 February 2013 by

It is not easy to walk around with Flat Kathy. For all strangers, or rather, people whom Flat Kathy hasn’t yet demanded I introduce her to, she is simply a sheet of sunshine yellow paper on a stick. With a … Continue reading →

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Flat Kathy’s new blog is flourishing

Posted on Friday, 8 February 2013 by

It was only a couple of days ago, that I told you about our visitor from overseas – Flat Kathy. She arrived here from Nova Scotia, Canada, last Friday. She immediately asked me to help her create a blog for … Continue reading →

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Meet Flat Kathy: Our Visitor from Overseas

Posted on Monday, 4 February 2013 by

Last Friday, a long-expected and much-delayed visitor arrived from overseas. It took her about three weeks, to travel across the wide Atlantic Ocean from the snowbound frozen forests of Nova Scotia to the baking summer heat of South Africa. We … Continue reading →

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Looking back on an exciting year of being published!

Posted on Thursday, 24 January 2013 by

Last year, I wrote and submitted a number of articles to the Pinelands Muse community magazine and the Reserve Force Volunteer magazine, as well as the Equestrian Express and the Sawubona in-flight magazine of South African Airways, our national carrier. … Continue reading →

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The Pinelands Muse leaps into its third year of publication

Posted on Thursday, 24 January 2013 by

And Richard becomes famous! Since October 2010, a glossy community magazine has popped into our postbox towards the end of each month (I wrote about their first anniversary here). Known as the Pinelands Muse, or just affectionately as ‘The Muse’, … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: Cart Horse Angels to the Rescue

Posted on Monday, 15 October 2012 by

Exciting news! I have just received confirmation that an article I had submitted to Equestrian Express has in fact been published in their Issue No. 3 of 29 August 2012. The article is titled “Cart Horse Angels to the Rescue: … Continue reading →

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“Another day at the office”: The CHPA mobile clinic at Boland scrap yard – and tracking down a fleeing horse in Khayelitsha

Posted on Friday, 29 June 2012 by

Three mornings a week, the Cart Horse Protection Association of Cape Town opens the doors of their Epping premises to offer veterinary and farrier services to the cart horse community of the Cape Flats (see previous post). As this is … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: My latest article is published in the Pinelands Muse!

Posted on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 by

My doorbell just rang – to reveal a most welcome visitor: Glynnis, here to hand me my very own copies of the latest Pinelands Muse Community Magazine, freshly printed and still in their protective plastic wrappings! Thank you for the … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Blogosphere: How has blogging changed my life?

Posted on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 by

A couple of months ago, I had been asked by my friend Alison (of Despatches from Timbuktu) to give a presentation on the marvelous World of Blogging to the writers’ club to which she belongs: the West Coast Writers’ Circle. … Continue reading →

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