After cycling a bit in New York, I’ve felt quite downhearted about just how tiny the bicycle culture is in South Africa. But I just heard something that’s given me a lot of hope for what’s possible back home: Avid cyclists and excellent photographers Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler are travelling all over South Africa, …
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Bicycle Portraits
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Bikes, bikes, bikes
I’ve never been to Amsterdam, so perhaps my touchstone for reference is off, but still, it’s true that I have never been in such a bike-friendly city in all my life. Every tree and rail is thick with tethered bikes, and you see every single type of human being riding about here. It’s marvellous. New …
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Cycling in London
There’s lots of bicycle talk going on around here: Paul’s just got himself a mini velo frame made to take along with us to NYC, and I’m scouring Craigslist New York for a folding bike to use while I’m there. Also, we’ve just seen two friends from London who love to ride their bikes in …
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Making Friday 26 March
Despite getting a late start this morning (thanks to a fabulously fun Critical Mass ride), my Making Friday seemed endless. I started out by making purses once again, after a little article in Thursday’s Times about the purses I made last week got me loads of orders. Thanks, so much, Audrey Nyathi! Then, I’m afraid, …
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He’s that kinda guy
That’s the kind who finds the ground orchid flower I accidentally snipped in an early morning pruning frenzy, and puts it in an old Kikkoman bottle. I don’t think there are lots of those kinda guys around, and I love mine so much.
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The livin’ is easy
I’m absolutely relishing my post-February, post-Indaba, post-Market life, and this weekend was simply perfect. The pace was slow, the duties were few, I got to spend hours on pointless but pleasurable activities, like Milnerton Market browsing, cutting up magazines. I also saw a movie, babysat a darling niece, did yoga, caught up on blog reading, …
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House Tour
We’ve had a dreadful heat wave in Cape Town for the past week, so I’m afraid I didn’t have the energy to give our place a thorough tidy before Lily Strauss came over yesterday morning to take pics for an Apartment Therapy house tour. Unsurprisingly, Lily’s nifty eye managed to picked out all the least …
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The doodles have spoken
It’s probably not the most sensible time to be soul-searching, while I’m still trying to get my life back post-Indaba Expo madness, but I’m really starting to get pretty tired of feeling like I never stop chasing my tail, and in particular, that I never get to sit and work in my studio any more …
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Fooling myself?
A couple of weeks ago I spotted an angular skinny powdercoated metal lamp in a secondhand place on Kloof Street, and in a flash I was convinced it was the Jieldé floor lamp I’ve coveted for so long. So I snapped it up and bore it home triumphantly. But hmm, my triumph wilted a bit …
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