Free printable Eid cards

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Preparing for Eid and maximising one’s ibaadah in these final moments of Ramadaan can be quite the juggle.

If Eid gifting is on your lengthy last-minute-to-do list, here’s one less thing to occupy your head-space.

I’ve put together these Eid Mubarak cards for you to download and print.

Assemble the cards by printing each one on an A4 sheet of paper.

Follow the grey line and trim off the white border.

Orientate your paper so that it’s print side up and in landscape position.

Fold the paper in half horizontally. If you’re familiar with origami, this would be a mountain-fold.

Fold the paper in half again; this time the crease will be vertical and you’ll have the printed image on the front of the card which will now open from left-to-right.

The card will be blank on the inside, leaving you plenty of space to pen in your message and aadiyah for a loved one.

Click here to download the printable Eid cards pdf file (includes all three versions of the card).

Desktop wallpaper download: Sunset over Tangier

While in Tangier, we stayed at Dar23; a guest-house with a rooftop terrace that overlooked the port.

I will always associate a part of our time there with the scent of cooking fish and laundry baking off in the sun.

This design is my abstraction of the view from the guest-house’s terrace.

Click on the image to open the wallpaper to its full resolution of 1024×768, then right-click on the image to save.

I knew a boy

I knew a boy
who puffed and passed on the roofs of higher education
with women who did no good for him,
who had his open heart shat in,
who then faked it because it was just harder to be real,
who dreamt too big for his head,
who did too crazy for us all,
who grew up
to become a father.

Photowalk: Fietas and surrounds

Naeem and I spent last Saturday morning footing in Fietas with Darren Smith and Gus Silber for a photowalk through one of Johannesburg’s most interesting and textured areas.

I used to live in a commune not far from where we were shooting.

Krause street and De la Rey were part of my daily commute and even though I was taken by the decaying facades admired through anti-smash&grab car-window tinting, I just didn’t gather enough fortitude at the time to see these structures up close.

But there’s always guts in numbers.

The four of us started off at the 23rd Street mosque, walked down towards the De la Rey street subway linking Pageview to Fordsburg and ended at the in desuetude Jajbhay Memorial school.

The De la Rey street subway mural is a recent installation and tells the story of a community who were uprooted yet who also celebrated, worshiped and hoped for a time when the spectre of Apartheid would shrink away.

De la Rey street subway mural
De la Rey street subway mural
De la Rey street subway mural
23rd Street Mosque, Fietas

4×4 trails in South Africa

The Toyota Blog wanted to provide its readers (and more specifically, Toyota Hilux drivers) with brief guides to popular and interesting 4×4 routes they could explore in each of the country’s provinces.

I was commissioned to complete the series and submitted the following content:

4×4 Trails That Will Make Your Hilux Happy! Part 4: Gauteng

4×4 Trails That Will Make Your Hilux Happy! Part 5: Northern Cape

4×4 Trails that will make your Hilux happy! Part 6: Free State

4×4 Trails That Will Make Your Hilux Happy! Part 7: North West

4×4 Trails That Will Make Your Hilux Happy! Part 8: Limpopo

4×4 Trails That Will Make Your Hilux Happy! Part 9: KwaZulu-Natal (to date, unpublished)