When I first got to the UK in 2000, I embarked on a culinary voyage of discovery. Suddenly, berries that had cost half a month’s salary in South Africa (or simply weren’t available) were available on every supermarket shelf – and sometimes even available for free in the hedgerows around our house! The stuff I […]
Click here for a full portionHarbour House, Kalk Bay
Photo courtesy and © Harbour House website There are many things in this world between which there are proportional relationships. Sometimes, this is a direct proportional relationship: the more you exercise, the fitter you get; the likelihood of the photocopier breaking is directly proprtional to the importance of the job you are copying; or you […]
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Me and my shadow – Chatel, France
Click here for a full portionChalet Cateriane – a luxury ski week in Chatel
Skiing is something that Nick and I only got round to relatively late in life. Unsurprising, really, considering that we grew up in a country where snow is unusual enough to make the evening news, and that had a sum total on one ski resort with one button lift! Nick took to it like […]
Click here for a full portionConfetti rice salad – celebrate!
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them – Leonard Louis Levinson It’s a simple fact that there are those of us in this world for whom the glass is half […]
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Bumblebee – Spring 2009
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