Bridget McNulty

To ease us into a new week’s worth of work, here are a few of my favourite made-up words … schmoegel (n): a little bit Won’t you just cut me a schmoegel of that cake? nana (n): fool Good Lord (insert name here)! Must you always be such a nana in front of my colleagues? […]

With all the Eskom troubles going on lately, there’s been much talk about how the country is going to the dogs. Figuratively speaking, of course (I hope). So it was with great relief that I found the SA Rocks website this morning. It’s pretty much a collection of opinions on why South Africa is a […]

In light of the fact (no pun intended) that Eskom switched my power back on just in time for my favourite TV show of the week, here are a few of the best TV shows ever made (according to me). Feel free to add your own: Seinfeld. Top of my list and one of the […]

Yes. After some extended quality time with Telkom’s automated hold system this morning, these are a few of my (least) favourite things about being put on hold: They’re cheap. They only invested in 45 seconds of badly mastered pan-pipe instrumentals, and then looped it. This is more than a little annoying when you’re on hold […]

From a business and economic point of view, no. But what about personally? Is there any way we can find pleasure in no electricity? Here are a few (only slightly ironic) of my favourite things about power cuts: Candlelight! What a romantic way to eat a dinner of bread and cheese. Everyone looks better in […]

These are a few of my favourite, can’t-resist-dancing songs. (It’s Friday! Lighten up!) I Feel it All by Leslie Feist. A new acquisition (just got it this week), but totally irresistible. Great beat, fantastic lyrics, and it’ll get stuck in your head and never, ever, ever leave. Best line? “I know more than I’m known […]

Before I launch into my list of favourite movie stars, perhaps a moment of reflection on the fact that maybe being a movie star is lonelier than being a normal person. Maybe there’s less space to fail, less space to look weak, more tendency to bottle things up until there seems to be no possible […]

… I was mildly to moderately infatuated with him. So, in honour of my number-one teenage-boy crush, here are a few of my favourite movie stars (only men today, I’m afraid, but all you manly men out there — feel free to add in the female quotient): Jake Gyllenhaal. Yip, Heath’s lover from Brokeback Mountain. […]

It’s a cross between an apricot and a nectarine. And it’s delicious. The texture of a nectarine, the size of an apricot, and the flavour of both at the same time. Now, I’m not the biggest fan of doctoring nature, but I can almost convince myself that the nectacot was the result of an illicit […]

… I love coming home, because: You can swim in the sea! It’s wild, and a little dirty, and you get tossed around a lot and end up with sand in your cozzie, but you can swim for ages and not freeze. Durban seems to stay the same. I was driving home from the beach […]