Gone are the days when it was all downhill from middle age. Oh yes, you can still be nifty at over fifty. Now, people are staying younger for longer (by one means or another) and retiring later (Raymond Ackerman retired aged 79). There’s life in the old dog yet but it helps if someone else [...]
Be amazed by the YouTube video of a 76 year old woman Salsa dancing better than anyone a third of her age! Don’t be fooled by the title ‘Ginger Rogers dances salsa at 92’, it’s not Ginger, it’s a beautiful mature lady showing us all up. If it doesn’t get you inspired to dance, [...]
Carpe Diem are two simple words that express so much and encourage us to ‘Seize the Day’, as written by the ancient Roman poet Horace, because as he rightly says, “the future is unforeseen”. The horse-drawn taxi drivers of Cape Town had seized the moment, back in 1905, to head down to the docks for [...]
Talking about the weather is daily ritual in Cape Town and reputations can be won or lost predicting what the next day will bring. That’s why seasoned paragliders usually say, “wait and see,” when asked where they will take off the next day. The weather at 34º south can provide just about every season in [...]