Hustle
Nine Nine Six
996. Have you heard of it? Seriously not? Don’t worry, I hadn’t heard about it either…. “So what is it?” I asked. 996 is an absurd working schedule commonly practiced by some companies in China Read more…
Hustle
Lessons Learned in the Fish Factory
It’s not how I planned to end 2018 (or start 2019 either): Cold. Wet. At a fish factory. Doing production line work. I learned about speed. I learned about hard work. I learned about repetitive Read more…
Hustle
The Perks of Being a Cleaner
While cleaning was never the planned career path, life tends to throw you some curve-balls. It knows what you need when you need it. And sometimes you need to just get down and dirty, grab Read more…
Sail
Namibia Beckons
I couldn’t believe that we were finally off! After so many farewells and false starts and restarts; could it actually be that we were truly sailing out of Hout Bay? For good? Morwenna chugged out Read more…
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When Even the Gypsies Settle
gypsy ˈdʒɪpsi/ noun 1. a member of a travelling people with dark skin and hair, traditionally living by itinerant trade and fortune telling. Gypsies speak a language (Romany) that is related to Hindi and are Read more…
Sail
100 days of happiness
happiness ˈhapɪnɪs/ noun 1. the state of being happy. “she struggled to find happiness in her life” synonyms: contentment, pleasure, contentedness, satisfaction, cheerfulness,cheeriness, merriment, merriness, gaiety, joy, joyfulness, joyousness,joviality, jollity, jolliness, glee, blitheness, carefreeness, gladness,delight, good spirits, high spirits, light-heartedness, good cheer, well-being, enjoyment, felicity; exuberance, exhilaration, elation, ecstasy, delirium, jubilation, rapture,bliss, blissfulness, euphoria, beatitude, transports of delight; heaven,paradise, seventh heaven, cloud nine; humorousdelectation; rarejouissance “her Read more…
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Murdering a Gypsy
A little part of myself died earlier today. And not just the skin cells I lost in the shower. No, it goes way deeper than that! As I tidied the garage this morning (or mostly Read more…
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HELP!!!!
I had a moment of weakness this week. Trust me, it doesn’t happen very often (which is why I can fix tyres with nothing but grass, petrol and a match; and how I know my Read more…
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100 Days on the road. 100 People worth the knowing!
196,503 trees… 9869 toilets… 8765 roadkills…. 5060 km… 174 kangaroos… 118 beautiful beaches… 47 jogs… 36 cycles… and finally day the 100th arrived (Friday, 11 March)! That’s 100 days of pure overwhelmingnessness and at least Read more…
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Nowhere : The Trees of Tincurrin
Ever wonder how to possibly survive six weeks in the middle of nowhere?? *Nowhere* being 58km from the nearest shop and a little over 15km from the nearest pub… a town with a population of Read more…