I received this contribution from a friend who is a teacher at a local school and mother of three and reprint it here with her permission. (For international readers: “forty days” is forty days before the final school exams start)
Bowled clean.
Debbie Kampherbeek
Yesterday the matrics had their ‘forty days’.
Forty days to what, I don’t know. [...]
The girl who cuts my hair every 3 months, or sometimes 6 weeks, is on 4 months maternity leave.
Before she left I was concerned about cutting my hair and where I would have it done. She told me she would come in any Monday to do the necessary. All I had to do was call [...]
Had a great breakfast with two friends from the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) to discuss ways in which they can use social media to promote their activities.
What came out of the discussion is the way in which many organisations shoot themselves in the foot by denying their employees access to Facebook and other [...]
“The day got hot, and we took off our shirts. One sweating soldier said: ‘Five years ago you couldn‘t a got me to dig a ditch for five dollars an hour. Now look at me. You can’t stop me digging ditches. I don’t even want pay for it; I just dig for love.’”
- Digging and [...]
