Lifestyle

If there is one thing about townships that I think I should share is that there is a lot of monkey see, monkey do behaviour. It is a lot like the American mentality of keeping up with the Joneses but in a rather intricately township way. We (need I say) black people tend to overlook […]

I hastily jabbed in a text message to a friend of mine in China: “I have a new, cute, teaching assistant, her English name is Easy. I wonder if she is”. Randy (aptly named) rapidly replied: “Well try her out and give me immediate feedback”. Thereafter, the flow of text messages back and forth got […]

I could use Julius Malema’s help here in my battle with some undemocratic types Down Under. Boet, if you’re not doing anything particularly controversial this week or putting your foot in someone’s mouth, help me out here, please man. Those Nando’s guys will love you for it — and it’s a great way to tell […]

I’m a cat person. Anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time will know that I have a soft and smooshy heart for all things feline. One of the best things about being back in Joburg is getting to live with a cat again. (She still prefers my husband to me. Ah […]

Life, what a joy and teacher of great lessons on how to live, what your limits are and how to behave as a man of stature. And life commonly finds it necessary to revise these lessons when you seem to be losing your way in blissful ignorance and excitement. It was so this past weekend […]

This week, I went over to the dark side. Yes, technically it is a four-year-old car and technically, it cost less than a Mazda 2 1.5 despite being an auto and having only 27 600 km on the clock. But it bears the kidney-shaped grill, the badge divided into blue and white quarters (a spinning propeller […]

At about 10.30 on Friday evening I returned a missed call from one of the cultureless, classless and nondescript collection of heathens I’m known to consort with from time to time. They call themselves the MOT — or Men Of Thirst. Let’s call this particular savage Xolani, for that is, after all, what his folks […]

I remember a time when people used to like me. Those were the days. Conventional wisdom dictates that the older we grow, the wiser we become. I don’t know any more. I hope you don’t dispute the fact that being liked by people is significantly better than being despised. At no other prior stage in […]

… Check out a great new restaurant — Sibanye Restaurant in Imizamo Yethu, the township just outside Hout Bay. I went yesterday and I was a little reluctant, not to go for lunch in the township, but because I thought it would be very touristy — Sibanye is specifically aimed at tourists. I was (very) […]

Since I’ve been confined to quarters with a strictly no-politics-until-the-operation policy, I’ve been forced – trust me – to watch all the television programmes that the government (Mrs Traps) feels are appropriate at this time. As some of my regulars may recall this is the same woman that force-fed me Big Brother Africa III, Idols […]