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Art, Books, Movies, Television and Music
Caligula’s 2000 year-old sapphire ring goes up for sale
This ring, made out of a single sapphire, will be for sale and exhibited by Wartski next week in London. The sale/exhibition will be from 1st – 7th October 2019, and entrance is free. Read more here and here.
Ageing
When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions,… Read More ›
The Downton Abbey movie
I was so looking forward to the Downton Abbey movie that we went to see it the night it opened. The theatre was full – even at 6pm on a Friday night – and the predominantly female audience had… Read More ›
A poem that can be read in both English and Afrikaans
The poem below was created as part of a South African campaign by ad agency Joe Public. The client was a dual medium (bilingual) school and so the poem reads in both English and Afrikaans.
