Farce or Fiction
I painted my toe nails, cut my hair, trimmed off the unwanted body hair – too much info? – hauled out the bikini and all that was form-fitting and went off to meet my best beloved. He’s a keen snorkeller, spear fisherman, surfer and I believe water is for washing dishes, clothes and self. I’ve […]
There is only one man I know who can drive a 4×4, in fact any car really, at its limit, drink hot coffee, read a broadsheet, talk on a cell phone at the same time and still arrive alive. His passengers on the other hand have had a cardiovascular experience of extraordinary proportions and may […]
Liverlips and I are on a short holiday. She is in Australia. I am in South Africa, wondering around somewhere in my head. In the ineffable words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, we will be back! I like to think you don’t see this as a threat, but something to look forward to. See you soon! Terri
He winked at me, and said in his most debonair manner, “would you pour the tea?” I looked at him coyly from under my eye-lashes, smiled slightly and said in my best Marlene Dietrich whisper “No Errol, and take care of that tic”. The man looked like a lopsided goblin; no doubt Errol Flynn turned […]
We invested heavily in trying to secure developments in the area under our organisation’s management. We went door-to-door, shook hands with the influential and not-so-influential, spoke at every available investment and finance conference, laid on field trips (I believe the estate agents call them show days) so we could create the magic and help investors […]
On the road again, lah lah lah lah, on the road again; this time with: a government official who had been at the trough so long, I will simply refer to her as Fat Chick. True to form she failed to disclose that she had been suspended for her long fingers and creative accounting, and that […]
If the sins of the father are visited on the children – my dad was bad! My company pulled together significant sums of money for the construction of infrastructure. Feeling ill-equipped for the task I shopped around for good project managers. Enter Bob and Bob’s flunky aka BFF. No not my best friend forever, but […]
I always read The Third Umpire in the Business Day. Typically three people are selected daily and viewers can cast their vote for who is in and who is out. My list is long, very long; people I have recruited and people I have encouraged to leave the various companies I have worked for. Despite […]
Show and tell seems to be a consistent theme in my career. Reminds me of my days on the stage, albeit a very long time ago, and in school theatre. My younger brother wanted to be a conservationist at the time. As luck would have it there was a complete role reversal and the conservationist […]
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies) (Edward Bulwer-Lytton), or as in my case the African bush and it was no […]