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Times are getting tougher. It means we’ve got to squeeze the most out of everything.  Not just the toothpaste, but out of all else. At the supermarket I asked a fellow shopper if she was a doctor. No, but why are you asking?  Prices! I am about to have a heart attack. The government says…

The brouhaha over Harry and Meghan ever continues.  I just love the ‘vomiting man’ emojis I got when I last mentioned Harry’s book. Now I’ve got to get a word in edgeways because everyone else has so much to say. To me in southern Africa, this is one of his many gems: Anyone who calls…

Don’t be obliged to read me. My pieces are too long, too wordy and not snippets for glances at on smart phones that you only have the time and patience for.  So be it. It’s okay Hollywood action star Bruce Willis has a severe form of dementia, his cognitive skills (speaking, reading, writing and remembering)…

In one of our tropical rainstorms the other day I was twiddling on the net for news from the outside world and had the misfortune of happening upon Fox News Radio. Oh my!  Its reputation precedes it in Zimbabwe, largely through seepage. Not only had we seen the excellent movie with Russell Crowe depicting the…

Here we go again. Lots of thoughts going on outside this usual space.      

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…