My 33rd birthday celebration was a RADICAL act of self-care. You see, eleven days before my birthday, my mum suffered a heart attack. If you’re a doctor, please, this next part is not for you. It’s for us mere mortals 🤣 Anyway, the first thing I learned is that heart attacks are really not dramatic. None of that chest clutching, falling to one side, gasping thing we see in the movies. All she had was some very easy to ignore pain around the left shoulder and chest area, and

We were in the middle of our now annual Perfect Week when my friend invited me out to join them in Naivasha. At that point, I had been running on 4 hours of day-time sleep and staying up all night for a week straight. So naturally, I said..... YES! I am so glad I did, because it turned out to be one of those trips I’ll remember not just for the sights, but for the rhythm of the day , from the early morning quiet to all three of us falling asleep in the car on the way home. He

My toxic trait as a landlocked girly is that when I’m in a beach town, I want to book a place so close to the ocean that we’re at risk of being flooded at high tide 🤣 And because I’ve been such a good girl, it’s only right that I get what I want. tl;dr: everything I did in Namibia Flew into Windhoek after travel chaos and immediately refused to rest. Toured Windhoek landmarks, including Christ Church and the Independence Memorial Museum. Admired how mountainous Windhoek is a

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March is officially a strange month for my family. My sister celebrated her birthday on 22nd March and my dad on 30th March. In 2024,...

This is the FOURTH post about my 32nd birthday. Why am I so obsessed with it!? It’s not even like a milestone year or anything. But let’s...

For my 32nd birthday this year… (have I mentioned anywhere that I turned 32 in 2025)🤣 this is a first even for me, THREE blog entries about my birthday?? Someone stop me!! Anyway, for my 32nd birthday, I actually took two trips, and the second one saw me visit Dubai for the first time, and Qatar as something more than a layover, making it my 20th country!!! I have a goal to see 40 countries by the time I turn 40, and I am now well over half that goal!! Country 21 was Bahrain

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“Hi Tuba, you had expressed interest in covering this conference. If this is still the case, please draw up a communications plan and...

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Guess who’s back, back again! Tuba’s back. Tell a friend! Did you sing that??? It only works if you sing it. If you’re pop-culturally...