SAD. No, we’re not talking about my mood – I mean seasonal affective disorder, a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms symptoms in the winter (or, indeed, any particular season), repeatedly, year after year. When my mom first read about it in the 1980s, she had […]
Click here for a full portionMingling with Topless Tarts at the Monthly Mingle!
Tart, n: a) a woman of ill repute; or b) a pastry dish, similar to a pie, but different in that the top is open and not covered with pastry Hands up – who feels like a little tart?? No, luckily for sensitive readers there will be no risque pictures of an improperly attired Cooksister appearing […]
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Robberg Beach, Plettenberg Bay – March 2011
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Bromeliad – February 2008
Click here for a full portionOlive & onion tartlets
Bittersweet. I think that’s probably the first oxymoron I learnt at school and I remember thinking that the name oxymoron was entirely apt. What kind of moron would describe something as both bitter and sweet at the same time (ah, the logic of the teenager!). It’s only later in life that you begin to […]
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My father – December 2009
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