Spoof-proof Yourself

Vergelegen Wine Estate in the western Cape is tackling the invasive shot hole borer (PSHB) beetle with the help of a doctoral student Heather Nependa from the Faculty of AgriScience at Stellenbosch University.

Going with Flow

Do you feel more true blue than red hot on Valentine’s Day? You’re not alone. Wait. You are alone. That’s the blues thing. Unless you have a few half-sized bottles of sparkling wine - and we know how long those last - there's not much fun in popping the cork for one.

A Survival Guide

Opinions flow like wine and critics have a penchant for sour grapes. How do you cope with a scathing review? Read on if it applies to you.

Make A Bundle

The Writer's File is a kick-ass guide packed with common-sense solutions, outside-the-box ideas, and easy-to-follow practical tactics. Free tools, DIY editing hacks, and chatbot prompts enable you to ditch the guesswork, surf the visibility swells, and navigate the self-publishing seas.

Crazy Times!

Stay informed but become picky about what you allow through your eyes, ears, and mouth. Curate your entertainment feed.

Going the extra Nile

Is a cruise down the Nile worth it? That depends on your boat. Some river cruise vessels are fit for a pharaoh. This was not one of them.

Gardening Books

Three books on gardening, self-sufficiency and suburban homesteading from regrowing vegetables to homespun remedies

10 Travel Writing Tips

Immerse armchair travelers into worlds unseen. Here are 10 travel writing insider secrets on how to keep your readers engaged!

Make Waves With Splash it!

Splash It! 99 Customizable Press Release Tools, Texts & Layout Templates sparks creativity with insider secrets and Media Whispering hacks

Terf Wars

There was a time when decent, masculine men – gay or straight ‒ defended our rights because a society that does not protect its women and children is doomed. Only deluded minds believe a woman has a penis because a man in a dress is a man, no less. Prove me wrong.

Between a wok and a hard place

Later in a restaurant, with an instrumental version of How Much is that Doggie in the Window tinkling in the background, I  contemplated the communal spread. A steamed frog atop a pile of noodles and a chicken with the head still attached, failed to whet my appetite.

REIGN

Unequal parts memoir, self-revelatory confessional, and Brave New World travelogue, this rollercoaster ride to sovereignty bridges continents, real-life experiences, a few rabbit holes, and a self-revelatory wellspring from which you can manifest anything.

Squeezed Inn

PAMELA COOPER checks into a London broom cupboard

Clock Shock

Lapland is Europe’s last wilderness with salmon-stocked lakes and forests filled with brown bears, lynx, foxes, elk and reindeer.

Starry Eyed

PAMELA COOPER offers 13 rules on how to behave at a celestial gathering

St Petersburg Metro

Saint Petersburg’s metro is one of the world's busiest with five subway lines, 67 stations, 3 000 trains and 2.5 million passengers a day

The fire of life

Fire is an essential event in the fynbos community. Without fires for lengthy periods, some species, such as proteas, start degenerating.

Advice for the starry-eyed

Back in another space-time continuum, when you could smoke on planes, go clubbing in Hillbrow, and 'knock three times on the ceiling' if you...

Awaken the Muse-ic

Johannesburg-based Biofield Tuner and Sound Therapist Wendy Leppard can help restore harmony and renew our life force.

Lockdown Lessons

On discovering how many of my Facebook friends are virtue signallers, curtain twitchers, conspiracy theorists and pedantic pedagogues

Flow like water

Human activity can directly influence weather patterns. and our attitudes may have a far greater impact on the environment than we realise