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19 March 202127 May 2023 Janette Bennett

Getting wild about a name

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Slow travel, Wild things
Getting wild about a name

Trans the Kei is where you find the real deal Whenever I hear anyone talk about the Wild Coast, I think of the 280km shoreline

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19 January 202128 April 2025 Janette Bennett

Escaping the darkness

Life
Escaping the darkness

Three women share their experiences of being gaslighted – and how they got out of it Gaslighting, I once thought, meant finding a source of

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6 October 202020 January 2023 Janette Bennett

The many roads that take you there

Ambles, Coronavirus, Reinvention, Slow travel
The many roads that take you there

Escape from lockdown: Travelling in the time of the coronavirus With #him, I have spent the past three weeks meandering 3,500km back and forth across the

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8 September 202022 September 2024 Janette Bennett

10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

Handmade, Reinvention, Slow fashion, Sustainable living
10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and

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23 July 202020 January 2023 Janette Bennett

What a ride

Eastern Cape, People
What a ride

Meet the inventor of the sidecar ambulance and clinic The road has been long and winding – from a north London workshop on a chilly

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8 July 20209 June 2023 Janette Bennett

The anatomy of a scapegoating

Eastern Cape, People, South Africa
The anatomy of a scapegoating

Motorbike sidecar ambulances and clinics are one of the best things to come out of the Eastern Cape. Yet certain quarters are trying their best

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24 May 202028 April 2025 Janette Bennett

Giving wings to scraps and threads

People, Reinvention
Giving wings to scraps and threads

Multi-talented Kathryn Harmer Fox has found her way to fibre art. Or maybe fibre art has found its way to her. Either way, we are

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15 May 20206 January 2022 Janette Bennett

What we need now is kindness

Coronavirus, Life, Reinvention, Writing
What we need now is kindness

Where is the acknowledgement that we are frightened and in pain? Why are we not comforting each other? This reality demands a new kind of

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21 April 202021 October 2020 Janette Bennett

Facing up to the new normal

Coronavirus, Handmade, Life, Reinvention
Facing up to the new normal

If you’ve wondered why and how to make masks, then this post is for you. Making facemasks almost broke me. Apparently I saw the need

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9 April 202020 January 2023 Janette Bennett

The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele

Coronavirus, Eastern Cape, Handmade, Life, People, Reinvention
The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele

Celebrating ordinary people emerging as heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic Long before the dust started settling on the mask-or-not debate, people in Rhodes Village and

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