Author: Dax
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MySchool Edible Garden Harvest Table
Follow through and follow up. Those two very important concepts form the theme of this report on my most recent visit to Chapel Street Primary School in District 6 for the Harvest Table lunch. MySchool originally invited me to Chapel Street Primary to assist the team from Woolworths Financial Services (WFS) with planting an edible…
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Eat Out Top 10 Restaurants 2015
The top 10 restaurants in South Africa were announced at the Eat Out Mercedez-Benz Restaurant Awards on Sunday. As usual, most of the restaurants (8) are located in the Western Cape.
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Best SA Chardonnays in 2015
I like to attend these events even though I could probably just publish the results from the press release that gets sent to me. The reason I like to attend them is that we get to taste the winning wines. It’s not often you find yourself in a room with 10 of the best chardonnays…
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Should You Really Follow Your Passion?
I suggest to you that doing what you love or finding your passion is a luxury afforded to very few and that for the rest of us there is more relevant and helpful advice to be had.
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Eat Out Top 10 Judging Criteria
I recently published the list of 20 restaurants which have been nominated for the 2015 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Restaurant Awards. The Eat Out judges will evaluate them and select the best 10. I was curious about what the actual criteria for selecting the winners. I emailed Eat Out to ask them if they could share…
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Delightful Murals With MySchool
I was invited to join the staff from MySchool & the team from See Saw Do to help with the painting of a mural at Chapel Street Primary School.
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Top Reasons To Get To Robertson Wine On The River 2015
This weekend is Wine On The River in Robertson. This is a great wine festival because it’s not as crazy as the Wacky Wine Weekend and everything happens in one place so you don’t have to move around from estate to estate. I went yesterday to check it out and here are some top reasons…
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Galileo Movie Schedule 2015/2016
The Galileo Outdoor Cinema has become a popular activity. This year they have expanded the offering to cover more nights of the week and more areas. There will be a Galileo Cinema showing Tuesday to Friday every week (with a few exceptions) and they have added a rotation of city venues to take the Friday…
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Kirstenbosch Concerts 2015/2016
This is the schedule for the 2015/2016 season of concerts at Kirstenbosch Gardens. Tickets can be booked online at Webtickets. Book your favourites now because the good ones sell out long in advance.
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Rosé Rocks Competition Results 2015
2015 has given us the first rosé wine competition in South Africa, Rosé Rocks. Pink wine is no longer the sweet or semi-sweet wine with which it as for a long time been associated. It is now a sophisticated style of dry wine made from various varieties of grapes. These are the winning wines.