When I was in high school, my parents wanted me to be a doctor. Other kids I knew wanted to be lawyers, physiotherapists and journalists. I wanted to be either a film director or an advertising copywriter. So clearly, three law degrees was the obvious next step for me 🙂 OK, so it’s a long […]
Click here for a full portionMoroccan-spiced roasted vegetables
So the festive season is well and truly over. All the Christmas decorations have been taken down, all the gammon leftovers have been eaten, and everyone is talking about good intentions, more exercise, losing weight, drinking less and eating light. Going out to dinner with friends has become fraught with difficulties as this one won’t go […]
Click here for a full portionLe Chameleon, Humansdorp
I have often said to people that one of the characteristics I admire most in somebody is their ability to surprise me, even if I’ve known them for ages. It might discovering a clutch of heavy metal CDs in the collection of an old friend with a taste for opera.  It might be a long-term vegetarian friend […]
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Blackbird – London, January 2010
Click here for a full portionVivat Bacchus, London Bridge
So did you hear the one about the girl who called up a couple of central London restaurants one Friday afternoon, asking: “Hello, do you have a table for eleven people available for dinner tomorrow evening? Yes, that’s this Saturday evening I’m talking about, and I’d like the table at 19h30.” OK, so those of you who […]
Click here for a full portionCheese crackers – perfect with goats’ cheese and apples
I’m a sucker for figures of speech – which is a good thing because the Afrikaans language (which is my mother tongue) is particularly richly endowed with them! One figure of speech that we have in abundance is adjectives in their intensive form – English has a few (snow white, blood red), but Afrikaans has […]
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