PEOPLE are feeling the heat, and already putting the fest into festive! Today, briefings from Namibia’s holiday outposts, plus goats, aspirations, dogs, carrots, and … 50 shades of bland?!
@lahyahaininga: How do people cuddle in this heat?@Wendji2: #SoHot you stealing your little nephew’s ice lollies and blame it on your little brother.@dongeo80sbaby: It takes an hour to get from Ongwediva to Oshakati because one has to keep dodging the donkeys, taxis, drunk cattle and the frogs, especially near the bridge.@lewismontanaII: It’s OK to smell like mosquito repellent in the North. Does not matter what time of day it is.@Pendazano_gbb: As Xmas nears, watch the Namibian goat prices skyrocket high to the moon; they can be credited as the first Namibian thing to reach the moon.@iAmKiito: All I want for Christmas is a blender and a lifetime supply of fruit shakes :-)At Random@OliviaJoans: Reading ’50 Shades of Grey’ was just one of the many fashion statements of 2012. I really don’t get it. It SUCKS!@Shilla008: Meat will be the death of me (so to ease my mind I grabbed a carrot as well)!@Angrea: I’m suspicious of people who don’t like dogs… But I totally trust a dog when it doesn’t like a person.@Victology10: Why do Namibians bite their lower lips when doing that famous kuduru dance?Aspirations@ThatMissMercia: I should really start concentrating on my English. The way I just keep talking upside down sentences. This North also!@LiquoriceKiki: Need to start writing again. My thoughts ain’t heading nowhere so might as well pen them down.@Mis_Rauna: I want to travel across the world and breathe the air of new places.Namibia’s Got Talent@hafenislice: I can’t whistle but I can say the words wheet-whoot…Passing Shots@OfficeofSteve: If burglars ever broke into my house to look for money, I’d probably just search with them.@Hugi_bear: I still don’t understand the Scottish people. They have a meal called spotted dick. Like really, mehn.@ElvisEndjala: I have the body of a god… too bad it’s Buddha.@bubbs07: Can’t the rain be like that Zoe Saldana chick? Light and barely there.- Compiled by Jean Sutherland from twitter.com
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