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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 36 of Level 1, 5 April 2021.
Monday 5 April 2021, Family Day, Day 36 of Level 1. Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a peaceful day; it being a little cooler, and with an extremely strong South Easter blowing this afternoon,...
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New restaurants open, one Restaurant Closure, in Cape Town and Winelands...
The Level 1 regulations introduced on 1 March, with a restaurant closing time of 23h00, and the serving of alcohol being permitted since February, have been a boost to the local restaurant industry,...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 37 of Level 1, 6 April 2021
Tuesday 6 April 2021, Day 37 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #grateful for a most beautiful day after the fierce wind last night, at 25C; for a 9 hour sleep, feeling very relaxed; for a busy writing...
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SA Butler Academy continues its lies to its students and future employers,...
Last week I was alerted by Lin Yang, the Singaporean student who managed to interest Carte Blanche in doing a story on the SA Butler Academy (SABA), about a revolutionary change in the Academy’s...
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Corona Virus, Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 38 of Level 1, 7 April 2021.
Wednesday 7 April 2021, Day 38 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a lovely sunny 23C day; for an up and down day, luckily more up; for getting my writing work done in time before meeting with...
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Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen finally opens his Restaurant KLEIN JAN in...
One of the most popular stories on my Blog currently is one I wrote just over a year ago, announcing the planned opening by Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen of Restaurant KLEIN JAN, the baby...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 39 of Level 1, 8 April 2021
Thursday 8 April 2021, Day 39 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a calm and peaceful day, well-organized, with a little time squeeze around midday, but it all worked out perfectly; for...
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Sweet Service Award goes to Knead; Sour Service Award goes to Outsurance!
The Sweet Service Award goes to Knead in the Constantia Emporium, and its waitress Olly (Molly without the M she said). Ten days ago I was in this lovely small shopping centre, wanting to shop at its...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 40 of Level 1, 9 April 2021
Friday 9 April 2021, Day 40 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Grateful for yet another beautiful day, at 23C, with no wind; for a busy writing day, feeling cross-eyed at the end of the afternoon; for two...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 41 of Level 1, 10 April 2021
Saturday 10 April 2021, Day 41 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Gratitude for a cooler cloudy day; for a busy day, starting with a leg wax at the Skin Studio, for the exceptional service from Nicholas at...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 42 of Level 1, 11 April 2021
Sunday 11 April 2021, Day 42 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #grateful for a very relaxed and calm day; for getting work finished, addressing a feedback email which needed diplomacy; for having my cats...
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SA Butler Academy gets a Karma klap, Website not accessible! Marketing...
The SA Butler Academy cannot stay out of the news. For all its dishonesty towards its students and their future employers, as well as disparagement of its critics like myself and international Butler...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 43 of Level 1, 12 April 2021
Monday 12 April 2021, Day 43 of Level 1. Corona Gratitude #grateful for one of the best Mondays in a long time, a day of leisure and dining indulgence; for getting my writing completed in time; for...
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Restaurant Review: Grand Pavilion is grand in its Food and Decor, yet...
I have great admiration for what Restaurateur Michael Townsend has achieved in more than twenty years of restauranting in Cape Town, always creative in the restaurant concepts. At a time when most...
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Camps Bay Beach on Travel & Leisure 2021 World’s Most Beautiful Beaches List!
Yesterday Getaway magazine shared that Camps Bay Beach is one of the World’s Most Beautiful Beaches, according to American Travel publication Travel & Leisure. The Travel publication described...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 44 of Level 1, 13 April 2021
Tuesday 13 April 2021, Day 44 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Grateful for the perseverance in spending almost all day writing the lengthy Review of the new Grand Pavilion, at which Gary Peterson and I...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 43 of Level 1, 14 April 2021
Wednesday 14 April 2021, Day 45 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a beautiful day, 28 C in town and slightly cooler in Camps Bay, with the most beautiful cotton wool ball clouds, and another...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 46 of Level 1, 15 April 2021
Thursday 15 April 2021, Day 46 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #gratitude for a beautiful day, cooler at 24C, and quite windy, but a rare South Wester for a change; for a good working morning, getting...
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Sweet Service Award goes to iStore; Sour Service Award goes to Shaw Academy!
The Sweet Service Award goes to the Apple iStore in the Waterfront, and its Technical Advisor Nicholas Gomes, for his amazing service to transfer my photographs and files from my former very outdated...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 47 of Level 1, 16 April 2021
Friday 16 April 2022, Day 47 of Level 1 Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a 28C summer day, hotter than my App predicted, having all my doors open for the lovely fresh air now that it has cooled down a...
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