By Leigh Thorsen I’ve lived almost half my life outside of South Africa, and I’ve just changed country for the third time. Ten years in the UK, ten in the US, and now, with the California economy tanking on a scale not seen since the ’40s, it seems time to try…one more country. My husband […]

By Fiona McIntosh “You’re going to cycle for five days through wild game reserves?” exclaimed my friends when I told them of the bush adventure that I’d just discovered. “Are you crazy? What about the elephants? And the lions? You’ve clearly got a death wish.” But I could think of nothing more exciting than getting […]

[hidepost]I had a crush on this guy for ages – he had been a friend for a long time, but there was always more to it. We had a couple of those relaxed “don’t-call-them-dates” drinks, and then one morning after he called I realised “oooh tonight is really a date”! So I had all the […]

Submitted by Amanda Tsinonis, mother of three girls and one dog, living in London… At 9.30am today, I was back at my desk, ready for a days work. My calm, very “zen” colleague Harpreet walked in and we booted up our computers. I sighed- looking somewhat dishevled, “What a day!” to which she replied “Don’t […]