Who is Showing Initiative?

Who is Showing Initiative?

Living in Zimbabwe is exciting! We all know and love the one true identifying Zimbabwean culture of “We’ll make a plan”, when goalposts and guidelines are moved randomly, spontaneously, and we have to move with them. When there are no jobs, we have to make a plan, be...
Artificial Intimidation

Artificial Intimidation

In any room in which we find ourselves, it is most likely we will find men who are fascinated if not infatuated by fishing. They will tell you that “A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work.” Fishermen are expert story-tellers and dreamers [“If...
Hooray to Nelson

Hooray to Nelson

We may know that Horatio Nelson was a famous British naval officer who achieved a number of glorious victories against his French enemies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It may well be that, a hundred years later, a Primary School teacher in...
Ace Your Service

Ace Your Service

John Isner, an American tennis player, has never won a major Grand Slam tennis tournament (his best performance was to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2018) but he did win 16 ATP titles. However, he is well-remembered as having one of the best serves ever, having...
Do whet the small stuff

Do whet the small stuff

Reed Martin and Austin Richenor, two members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, did what probably most of us as pupils always wanted to do and that was reduce Shakespeare’s plays to a single sentence, instead of sentencing us to three or four hours of complicated...