Earlier this week I did my once a month transaction with the smiling Big Issue vendor at the Claremont traffic lights. His name is Progress. A simple exchange of cash for a wonderful magazine that is honouring of the vendors who stand in whatever weather is shining or beating down on them that day. Recently …
The silence left me speechless.
“We are human beings not human doings…”
Creative Tips for Covid-19 lock down.
Last year I had the craziest experience! I fell in love with a 93 year old man! I’d been renting out an Airbnb in Cape Town that had Netflix, which resulted in me binge watching the entire season of Blue Planet 11 narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the world’s most well known naturalist and enviromentalist. …
These doodles were literally an end of the day Daily Detox Doodle session while chilling watching the latest series. No planning, just a happy flow of colour and texture that would remove the soul grime of staring at a computer all day. A good friend of mine commented yesterday that she feels I should include …
I can almost hear the inner workings of your brain thinking, “What could she possibly mean when she calls her blog ‘Arty Squeeks’?” I know. It’s sounds ridiculous, but that is the only way I can describe the uncontrollable sounds that came out of my mouth on that morning as I walked out of the …
In every person’s life, at some stage or another (most probably), there will be a moment when you say or think the words “Why me?”. When saying “Why me?” out loud there is often an intense physicality: arms reaching out with palms facing upwards and fingers splayed apart, head and eyes slightly tilted to the …
I hear a chorus of voices saying “Bryo-what?” and just over a year ago I would have been saying the same thing, but a glorious stroll along the side of a mountain side near the Lesotho border on a cold winter’s day in 2018 resulted in a chance connection with the most gorgeous natural green …
“Creativity takes courage”.
Henri Matisse
I love this photo! It was taken in 2016 by my friend Colleen who I was going to partner with and do tours to local and overseas tourists. We had avidly done everything we needed to do to become tourist guides: completed our first aid course, attended weeks of daily classes, studied up a storm …
Never in all my life would I have imagined how an online accommodation platform started by two young American guys renting out blow up mattresses to strangers would change my life. Five years ago, a guest to my home asked me why I didn’t rent out my empty garden cottage (a rather long, romantic story …
