Flying hippos, a storied stadium, saucy shirt, and biblical sharks

It may still be winter, but it’s time to start readying your garden for spring. We have all the planning and preparation for you on Page 7, plus tips to make the most of your garden in the remaining cold weather.

“When pigs fly” is often used to describe the small likelihood of something happening, but what if hippos were substituted for pigs? And what if hippos could really “fly”, even for really, really small bits of time? Details on Page 8, along with a lovely piece about a cat saved from death-by-compactor, and another on sharks going biblical.

Then & Now visits the storied Chatsworth Stadium, tracking its slump from its pomp as the home of Manning Rangers to its current dilapidated state.

The Motoring guys (still hate them!) get behind the wheel (or in the passenger seat at least) of some of the most beautiful Jags ever built, and the Lifestyle guys have some good tips for going on safari with children.

On Page 5, William Saunderson-Meyer asks if the Libyan training camp was a monumental failure of the intelligence services, or something more sinister, and Lindsay Slogrove feels Women’s Month does nothing to celebrate our women’s greatest achievement: surviving!

Frank Chemaly goes Korean this week, gets a good whiff of Durban herbs, and uses his shirt as a saucy doggy bag.