When I was a student, a friend an I loved playing a game where you tried to imagine what your pet would drink if they were human. In this way, we figured out the the neurotic small dog would drink a white wine spritzer; the black cat with the attitude of a panther would drink […]
Click here for a full portionRoasted cauliflower soup with garam masala for in between days
In between days. It’s a phrase that seems designed to enable people to overlay any meaning they wish onto it; a phrase that changes meaning for me depending on what is going on in my life. I first heard it as the title of a wonderful song by The Cure and like a pebble in […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #243
Klein Hangklip – near Cape Town, March 2013
Click here for a full portionReview of Ceviche restaurant
“Old DJs never die, they just fade out” goes the saying, and that may well be true for most of them. But just sometimes, you come across a story of a DJ who not only did not fade away mid-track, but walked out of the DJ booth and into a totally new career. One such […]
Click here for a full portionCajun blackened cod with creamy avocado dressing – and a NoMU giveaway [closed]
Don’t you hate it when you finally find the store that sells jeans that actually fit your shape – and it goes out of business. Or you finally find the perfect shade of concealer that does not make you look like an outpatient at the jaundice clinic – and the company discontinues that particular shade. […]
Click here for a full portionSouthern Sun The Cullinan Hotel, Cape Town
There was a time when the bottom end of Buitengracht Street in Cape Town could possibly have been described as not the most salubrious of places. I know, because I occasionally used to head down there to go to a nightclub called The Playground back in the day and was always careful to be very […]
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