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Ballet
There are consequences of an economy in a tailspin. One of the first sectors to feel the pinch is the arts and dance is no exception. Symmetry As a trustee of the Dance Trust of Zimbabwe I am all too...
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Urban wildlife
While out running the dogs this morning we spotted these two reed buck (a type of antelope). While there are only two in this picture another three were lying nearby, apparently unconcerned about our...
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A good season (for rain)
It’s been a good rainy season and nowhere more so than Nyanga in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Pretty view but no flying Home to Mt Nyangani, Zimbabwe’s highest mountain, it is a magnet for rain....
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Health and safety Zimbabwe style (tree felling)
We had some big trees cut down over the past 2 days – it was entertaining though Marianne decided she couldn’t watch. The climber in the photos was around 30m up and he survived just fine.
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The little escape
It’s been a while since I’ve visited the Matopos hills south east of Bulawayo. 10 years to be precise. In 2007 the Zimbabwe dollar was in free fall but not yet terminally ill and my brother and his...
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The river of my youth
That’s my brother Duncan over from the UK having recently taken voluntary retrenchment. He is 4 years older than me but still has not grown up. He is trying to entice Zak, my Rhodesian Ridgeback, into...
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Following in the footsteps
There I times when I admit that I’m a bit shaken just how like my parents I’ve become. I mean all those years of finding my own way, my own identity, what’s become of them? I catch myself dawdling...
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Those were the days
Those were the days of lots of zeros – my claim to multimillionaire status! There is not much to do at work at the moment – business is very quiet – so I got down to bit of clearing out old accounts...
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Penhalonga revisited
I used to live in Penhalonga, a small gold mining village in eastern Zimbabwe, named apparently from the Portuguese for long rocky mountain. I grew up on Sheba Estate, a forestry plantation some 15km...
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The uncooperative spider
Nope, just not a good photo The spiders are back in the nursery after a 2 year break. I’d noticed the decline for a few years prior to this and I’d put it down to erratic and decreasing rainfall over...
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