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The many roads that take you there
6 October 20207 October 2020 Janette Bennett

The many roads that take you there

Ambles, Coronavirus, Reinvention, Slow travel

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 breadth of South Africa, with a mild jiggle to the north. We take time out

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10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes
8 September 202028 December 2021 Janette Bennett

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

Handmade, Reinvention, Slow fashion, Sustainable living

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 the people who work in it. This was a big deal for me: I’ve always

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Giving wings to scraps and threads
24 May 20202 June 2020 Janette Bennett

Giving wings to scraps and threads

People, Reinvention

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 grateful. Some days, Kathryn Harmer Fox’s paint box is scattered all over the floor of

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What we need now is kindness
15 May 20206 January 2022 Janette Bennett

What we need now is kindness

Coronavirus, Life, Reinvention, Writing

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 intelligence from us. No-one alive has been here before. Let me rephrase: unless you are

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Facing up to the new normal
21 April 202021 October 2020 Janette Bennett

Facing up to the new normal

Coronavirus, Handmade, Life, Reinvention

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 for cloth masks to help in our battle against the coronavirus pandemic some time before

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The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele
9 April 202021 April 2020 Janette Bennett

The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele

Coronavirus, Eastern Cape, Handmade, Life, People, Reinvention

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 its Zakhele township in the mountains near the South Africa-Lesotho border were crossing old barriers

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Clothes with Karma in the time of the virus
16 March 20208 September 2020 Janette Bennett

Clothes with Karma in the time of the virus

Coronavirus, Reinvention, Slow fashion, Sustainable living

We touch in so many ways, just not physically Tessa is at the garden gate and we lunge at each other. I want to hug her and kiss her, smack-bang on the lips (it’s a South African thing). Then we

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The power of needle and thread
4 March 202010 March 2020 Janette Bennett

The power of needle and thread

Handmade, Reinvention, Slow fashion, Sustainable living

The art of sewing is stepping out of the closet as we take a stand against mindless consumption of damaging fast fashion. The need and desire to sew rests deep in my bones. I learned to love it, very young:

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A Durban thrift adventure
23 December 20198 September 2020 Janette Bennett

A Durban thrift adventure

Ambles, Reinvention, Slow fashion, Sustainable living

Durban was always going to be my big challenge a mere four-something months into my year of not buying new clothes. A visit to my old hometown has always included wandering through clothing shops, picking up an item or two.

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Evergreen joys
17 December 201917 December 2019 Janette Bennett

Evergreen joys

Environment, Handmade, Reinvention, Trees

Christmas, for me, is about being with people I care about. On the big Day, we gather to eat together, often under the milkwood trees, each contributing a favourite dish. And we always have a tree – never a plastic

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