Predictions. What is it about them that the human race simply cannot resist?? Nostradamus made a career out of making them. Generations of scarf-swathed women in heavy black eyeliner with cards or crystal balls or tea-leaves have made a good living out of them (or got condemned to death on account of being a […]
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Winter sunrise – London,January 2012
Click here for a full portionAll Star Lanes, Westfield Stratford
Isn’t it funny how a single smell or sound can transport you instantly from the here and now into the way back when? For me, the smell of a certain air freshener whisks me back to Grahamstown in the early 1990s. I was staying in a motel on my own for two weeks, conducting the hopeless pro bono […]
Click here for a full portionSteak on a blue cheese, spinach & pecan risotto
As I have said before, I do love a good simile. One of my favourite wine-related similes is this: Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have […]
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The Mother Ship – light fittings, London, January 2012
Click here for a full portionThe London Cooking Club cooks… South African!
A long time ago in a faraway land, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, encyclopaedias were made of paper, and blogging was in its infancy, a very lovely friend of mine Johanna had an idea. She was about to have her second baby and knew that she would be housebound for a while, but she […]
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