Some or other magnetic force made me abandon my shift on the show stand of a lifestyle magazine I was working for at the time. It was at a garden show in Somerset West at the end of 2006. Why I instinctively headed straight for The Gardener magazine’s stand in an exhibition tent further down the lane, I still do not know.
A shortish bird in a lime green golf t-shirt came storming up the pathway. I immediately recognised her as the inimitable Tanya Visser although we have never met in person before. When we came abreast of each other, she shouted that she came looking
