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5 Unique Ways to Celebrate Christmas
For South Africans, warmer weather and summer holidays mark the start of the festive season. Tinsel abounds in shop windows and homes alike, and there’s a jovial spirit in the air. The countdown to Christmas has begun, and many are casting their thoughts to how they’ll be spending this widely celebrated day. In western society,...
The Advent of Christmas: Kid’s Activities
Advent (from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming”) is the season leading up to Christmas day. In Western Christian churches, it is observed as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of Christmas. Today, the majority of the Western world usually celebrate the advent of Christmas by assembling decorated Christmas trees in their homes...
Christmas in Cape Town: Gift Shopping
There is do doubt about it. There is just something about attending a Christmas market that gets you into the Christmas spirit. If you are spending this Christmas season in Cape Town, forget crowded malls, overpriced gifts and buying for the sake of it. There are many Christmas markets happening in and around Cape Town...
Movember Madness
For those of you who live in a box, ‘Moustache’ plus ‘November’ equals ‘Movember’. For some men, it’s an excuse to ditch the razor and have a lazy shave-free month, for others it’s an opportunity to raise awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer. For others, it’s nothing unusual to allow their ‘tache...
Green Fingers Series: The Groundwork Before the Growing
If you thought that starting a vegetable garden was as simple as buying a few seeds from the nursery, sprinkling them onto the soil, and then hoping for the best, you are unfortunately terribly misinformed. When setting out to create a vegetable patch in your garden, you will soon discover that before you even think...
Gift Ideas: Pretty Jewels and Trinkets from Thula
After featuring Halo Surf Designs last week, we thought we’d go in search of something special for the ladies (or men trying to gain some favour with their ladies). It’s amazing who and what you can find on Twitter – and when we stumbled upon a local South African jeweller by the name of Jessica,...
Live Music Event: Meet Nuka
What do you get when you blend fields of gold, vanilla tea, unfading love, strawberry juice and dew drops? Magic. These are life’s little gems that contribute to the melodic sounds of Nuka, an extraordinary up-and-coming Cape Town band. What Does ‘Nuka’ Mean? Well, according to good old Wikipedia, Nuka can mean any of the...
Halo Surf Designs
On Facebook, he describes himself as ‘owner, shaper and coffee maker’. He is otherwise and better known as Neil Esterhuizen, and he is indeed the man behind the Halo brand. If you’ve visited Life Café recently, you would have noticed the brand new surfboard that hangs above the counter. We’re proud to say that it’s...
20 Questions with ‘The Man’, Papa G, Owner of Life Café (AKA Gerrit Loots)
1. How do you like your coffee? Double espresso: Add 191ml of hot water (not boiling), 21ml of cool milk (not cold), no sugar. Otherwise, as it comes hey… 2. Describe yourself in 3 words: Tall… Dark… H – just kidding… 3. If you were a Star Wars character, which one would you be? And...
Green Fingers Series: Tips for Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden
Life Café is going green! Some of our more observant customers may have noticed our relatively new vegetable garden located just outside, near the kiddies’ play area. Currently, Life Café’s little garden boasts lettuce, cherry tomatoes, spinach, string beans, rocket and rosemary plantlets. We so enjoyed the overall experience of planting a vegetable garden, but...
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