Hellooooo there, June is Youth Month In South Africa, the month of June is dedicated to the youth of 1976, who stood up against the apartheid government and fought for freedom and the right to equal education. Even though young people can be challenging at times – and I know ...
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Hellooooo there, winter has arrived in the Western Cape Our swallows have left on their long journey north. They migrate by day at low altitudes and find food along the way. They accumulate some fat reserves before crossing large areas such as the Sahara, then head on up through across ...
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Hellooooo there, and *poof!*, there goes the first third of 2021 It’s hard to believe that 2021 is flying past as quickly as 2020 did – with a little more social interaction, but only a little. At COMPRESS, on the other hand, we have been busier than ever, with the ...
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Hellooooo there, In times of stress, process is everything. To put the cart before the horse is an analogy for doing things in the wrong order Just like dragging yourself out of bed and showering when the black dog has descended upon you, process – doing things methodically and in the right order – has ...
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Hellooooo there, we can’t believe January is finally over! Like the poet Brian Bilston, we really thought the month would never end. Aide-mémoire Thirty days has September, April, June and November. Unless a leap year is its fate, February has twenty-eight But all the rest have three days more, Excepting January, ...
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Hellooooo there, welcome to a new year of COMPRESS.dsl! After an excellent break that even the closed beaches and alcohol ban could not spoil, we are back at the helm of our ship, and setting sail into the unchartered waters of 2021. To our team here at COMPRESS.dsl – Felicity, ...
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Hellooooo there, it’s time to sail off into the sunset! 2020 was, without a doubt, the strangest, hardest and most eventful year I have ever experienced. Thanks to our clients – old and new – COMPRESS.dsl has weathered the tsunami with relative ease. None of us can tell what 2021 will ...
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Hellooooo there, I can almost smell the beach! Just three weeks to go till South Africa’s endearing annual general collapse. This is something that surprised me hugely when I arrived from Europe 20-something years ago – that the entire nation (with the exception, of course, of those in the hospitality ...
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Hellooooo there, just 55 days till 2020 is over! I’m not sure about you, but I for one shall be astonishingly glad when this year is behind us. Having said that, I am also not so stupid that I really think everything will miraculously come right on 1 January, or ...
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Hellooooo there, happy October! As Spring finally makes it way to the tip of Africa, we welcome every moment of warmth and sunshine – while trying to remain grateful for the seemingly endless rain that has now filled our dams to 100% capacity for the first time in nearly a ...
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