Monthly Archives: June 2011

Perhaps eleven months of the year should be spent in more concentrated, more urgent discussion around turning women’s empowerment into a practical pervasive reality. Perhaps August should be the month when bills that authenticate the empowerment of women are passed … Continue reading →

So the topic of the day is Mr Malema.  Everyone’s talking about him, and not in a bad way.  No one is bothered about woodwork class any more.  Gone are the ‘dumb-ass’ remarks.  Mr Malema is the party that rocks … Continue reading →

Prohibition!  Can you feel the creeping dawn of national sobriety?  We are going to be prohibited. It’s only matter of time.  We’ve brought it on ourselves. They are going to prohibit the hooch.  What are we going to do then?  … Continue reading →

Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, Inferno, and the nine circles of hell.   There’s another Divine Comedy, the nine circles of excruciating suffering as experienced by that dedicated follower of fashion – The Fashionista The First Circle is Limbo.  This is the … Continue reading →

I have, several times, watched the movie Casino with Sharon Stone dressed in glamorous gold sequins moving in balletic slow motion under the mesmerised gaze of Robert DeNiro. Didn’t she look like every woman dreams of looking at some time … Continue reading →

Has anyone been on an aeroplane lately? It’s such a hassle it’s almost not worth it.  Domestic flights are bad enough, but have you tried going to another country?  Hellsbells, it’s a challenge.  Personally, I think our lives and travels … Continue reading →

They’re a funny old lot, the Brits.  Have you seen the way they are celebrating the bum of the sister of William’s Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge?  You may not have.  I have because I have Brit in me, and … Continue reading →