One of the questions that I am asked on a regular basis when people hear I am South African is “where can I find a good South African restaurant in London?”. Given the fact that there are about 500,000 South Africans living in the UK, you’d think that this would be an easy question to […]
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Hong Kong skyline at night – September 2013
Click here for a full portionPattypan squash with a cheesy bacon stuffing
A colleague whose mother tongue is not English once confided in me that to her, the most annoying thing that Brits do is to speak in idioms and then look surprised when people don’t understand what they are getting at. If you think about it, the entire English language is peppered with idioms, some […]
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Modern Malmö – August 2012
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There is a wonderful anecdote that I came across recently that purports to date back to the days of British colonial rule in India. The British government had become concerned about the number of venomous cobras at large in the city of Delhi and decided to combat the problem by offering citizens a bounty […]
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Next year’s vintage – Muscadet vines, June 2013
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