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It’s a new year! How splendid.

And in honour of the new year, I’ve got a new blog angle: these are a few of my favourite things. Basically, I’m going to be sharing with you things that I love — food, websites, quirks, funny things people say, music, moments of beauty.

Sound cheesy? Well, maybe … but here’s what I figure. There are so many hectic, news-ridden, lengthy, serious blogs out there. I can’t compete! I have nothing fresh to say about the Current Political Situation. Nothing at all. But I do have one or two things to say about life, and the living of it, and what it is that I love most about the daily grind.

I can promise it will be short and sweet.

Very short. Very sweet.

To start off, here goes: I’ve just returned from two weeks on an island in Lake Malawi. Heavenly! But here’s what I missed the most:

Wholewheat bread and butter. White bread just doesn’t deserve the name “bread”, especially when served with margarine. Yeeuch.

Fresh fruit and veg. Much as I love mangoes, and picking them straight off the tree is pretty cool, I also love other fruits (and un-tinned tomatoes) and fresh leafy vegetables. I’m a fresh-produce dork.

Chocolate. I succumbed to eating biscuits called Chunky Chocs that had no ingredients even vaguely resembling chocolate (not even cocoa!). Bring on the rich, dark stuff. Mmmhmm.

Tea with fresh water and tea bags. That is, not with lake water and tea leaves and powdered milk. I love my tea. Not so much when I have to sieve it through my teeth!

So that’s it. Food; I missed food. Didn’t miss TV or internet or cellphone. Not even a little bit.

More tomorrow!