Archive for January 2023

One local paper reported it like this, gun powder was found alongside weed and drug smoking paraphernalia during a police bust in our second city of Bulawayo. Gun powder? That would surely blow your mind.  From a generation once well schooled in the use of recreational drugs, it is difficult to imagine what gun powder…

Down here in the last country in the alphabet, we have some wonderful first names. Gift is an unplanned child or just a beautiful one gifted by God. Among many, many more are Admire, Precious and Beauty. The name Tendai can be used for both boys and girls, literally meaning in the Shona language “give…

In some fearful circumstances, doctors will look for your vital signs. In the current state of the world there are other signs of life  and “bons mots,” as  the French would say. In France, the body that caretook, if that’s caretake in the past tense, is the Academie Francaise, but sadly it can no longer…

r Every year the British announce their New Year Honours list in recognition of a lifetime of service for almost everything except fixing the kitchen sink. We all know a Knighthood is a Sir and the equivalent for women is a Damehood or a Dame.  This year Dame Mary Quant gets another plaudit  – CH…