The chemo lounge at Vincent Paulotti Hospital looks like a festive Christmas tree this morning. It's that weird week between Christmas and New Year so we're packed in to the hilt as the staff try and squeeze a regular week into 4 days. To make matters worse, concerned and caring family are on leave from their day jobs or visiting from upcountry, so ( Read more... )

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It's that time of year when things start slowing down before we all take a month off in the Southern Summer; so one tends to visit the funny familiar, yet virtually unseen places like Live Journal to see whazzup ( Read more... )

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Over the past few weeks, millions of South Africans have been learning a new word - Xenophobia ( Read more... )

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Just for old times sake - a bi-annual visit by the Flying African Correspondent (loaded up a few pics as well). Must say, Live Journal got easy since I was last here... look, I can even insert a picture of me doing a whisky dinner with massive inyensity

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My goodness, it's November the last time I flew in here. What a lot has gone on... and since we are on the funny Friday between a public holiday (Women's Day) and the weekend, there's a skeleton staff and I'm holding the fort.

Well, in March, Benson and Hedges caught up with me and they took out half a lung. Forget Zyban - having your chest cracked ( Read more... )

American readers should not get too excited about the gay marriage legislation. While it is indeed liberal etc, (being straight, a batchelor and white, it hardly impacts on me at all - but it did force a few gay couples I know to reassess their relationships... ooops, commitment means something else when it ends with a tango down the aisle), it ( Read more... )