Bridget McNulty

I do. What’s not to love? Stunning scenery with a splash of the unspoilt about it, fabulous swimming beaches, friendly people, cows, more cows, and a taste of South Africa that doesn’t taste like anywhere else in the country. What I don’t love about the Transkei is that it’s about to be ruined. Pretty conclusively […]

That’s South Africa, our country. Seriously beautiful. I had the strange pleasure of driving through it pretty much nonstop this weekend, and I was floored by how much natural beauty there is, in abundance, almost at every turn. We drove from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and back in three days — including visits to […]

It’s very likely that much of the rest of Cape Town has known about the Whatiftheworld / Gallery for ages now. I just discovered it. And what a discovery! Apparently it’s one of the Top 50 Emerging Galleries from Around the World. Check it out at www.whatiftheworld.com It’s a big, old warehouse in the slowly-becoming-hip […]

Did anyone know we’re in the midst of the Year of Creativity 2008? Apparently we are. Don’t believe me? Check out www.yoc2008.com While you’re there, take a browse through their ‘Be the Change’ project, which they describe as “an entertaining and ironic way of expressing our multiple identities through a set of highly original, personalised […]

Yes, there are many large and difficult problems we all have to face each day. But in the face of all these problems, wouldn’t it be nice to eradicate the small, irritating ones? Like DVD late fees? And having to drive to the DVD store to pick up a movie when you’d really rather just […]

I’m actually a fan of the bad movie category. You know those movies that are so bad they’re funny? Purposefully bad, purposefully funny. Bad as in: over-the-top, cheesy, obvious. Take Zoolander, for instance. As far as I’m concerned, the first good-bad movie of its kind (I stand corrected if anyone knows of one before that?) […]

I know what you’re thinking: Philosophy? It’s for aged, bearded gentlemen sitting around with nothing else to do but postulate on man’s quest for meaning. That may be so. Practical philosophy, on the other hand, is a little more, well, practical. For the past couple of Wednesdays I’ve been going to an intro course here […]

I’ve been living like a tortoise for the last week, carrying everything I need on my back. No, I haven’t suddenly been evicted. I’ve been going through the agony of moving house (if you can call it that, when the moving is from a cottage to a flat). And although I absolutely love my new […]

So I’ve been doing some online exploration over the past little while, and happened to stumble across three artists’ websites that I think are just lovely. Care for some relaxing Friday web surfing? Yeondoo Jung (www.yeondoojung.com) is a Korean artist who did an amazing project in 2005, where he took children’s drawings and made them […]

… One of the reasons, anyway, is that you can (quite literally) be walking down the street and be handed a piece of paper that says (and I quote): Marriage Consultant For Women Only Dr. Mama Fatuma & Kibo Cheapest & Cures Relationship: 1. Is your husband having an affair you suspect? 2. Is he […]