Only 7 more sleeps to go before my favourite national holiday bar Christmas – National Braai Day. (For my Aussie and American readers, BRAAI = barbie/barbeque). Now I know calling it Braai Day instead of Heritage Day is tantamount to treason in the eyes of many a politician. Fortunately I don’t give a fig. Braai is my heritage and on [...]
I love veggies, I really do. But I love them even more when they’re the supporting act for a thick, juicy steak. How very blokeish of me. Sirloin, rump, rib eye – the rich beefy awesomeness of these cuts is such that you need do very little to them. A smoking hot pan, some olive oil, salt, pepper and maybe [...]
It's alarming admitting this, but I have something in common with goldfish. There isn’t much online about their IQ. Some say it’s as high as 90 (I know a few people like that), some say they’re as dumb as dirt, barely above an amoeba (I know a few people like that too). Either way, they’re not known for their attention [...]
I’m a champion channel surfer. I’m sure this is an extremely irritating habit. Fortunately Merlot doesn’t mind. As long as she can sit on my lap, I can hop around like the Easter bunny. I recently landed on a programme about American women who have the hots for blokes in prison. Now we all have our little oddities, so [...]
Accounting was not my strongest subject at school. OK that’s being generous. Truth is, I was dangerously close to flunking it. The whole debit and credit column thing didn’t really resonate with the teenage me. It still doesn’t, not really. My bank manager probably finds this a bit disconcerting. The topic of family cropped up the other day. Given the [...]