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6 Snapchat Accounts I Currently Enjoy!

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Listen, I will be the first to admit that it took me AGES to get into Snapchat! It was equal parts “Social Media fatigue” and “How-the-heck-does-this-thing-actually-work-though. For all the networking sites to have graced us in the new millennium, this has been the most un-intuitively (is that even a word, mmmmmh)  one built to-date.

Like with all things, after you give it a bit of time (and call good friends to yell dumb questions like “How do I find the filters?”) it has become a go-to favourite online space of mine for entertainment and information..

Yes, yes, I am well aware about Instastories and how some users are replicating content on both sites (bah humbug), but for now I’m more than happy to receive my daily dose of random visual content & story telling over at Snapchat and would love to share with you some of my current faves.
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Cheeky Sunday Breakfast at “Antique Rose”

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Breakfast food is my favourite food and I don’t believe a cafe is worth its salt unless they serve breakfast ALL day.

One of my favourite places to have a breakfast catch-up with friends in Harare is Antique Rose, off Golden Stairs Road in Emerald Hill.

Their menu is sumptuous, the set-up is so cute and granny-chic and the owner Stacey Atwell is an absolute sweetheart (and rocks MAC’s Heroine like a bauws).
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5 Indisputable Ways To Know You’re Experiencing a Zimbabwean Summer

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I am writing this with every window in the room I’m currently occupying open, a glass of juice to my left (with fast disappearing ice-cubes swimming about on the surface) and a thin film of perspiration taking up residence across my entire body.

In short, it’s hot!

And with great heat comes great responsibility…and climatic cliches. To the uninitiated (or the initiated in need of a refresher – pun not intended, but still hilarious) this is a quick guide as to how you know you’re deep in the stronghold of a Zimbabwean Summer.

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