I have never tasted rice pudding before and to tell you the truth, I was rather skeptical about the whole idea. I like my food to be food and my pudding to NOT even pretend to be healthy. But after an awesome Indian take-out night with friends I ended up with a boatload of leftover rice in the fridge. Certainly… Read more →
Spring has sprung \0/! In some places in name only, Cape Town we are looking at you! But here in Snor City it has been springy since mid-August. There are some shitty aspects to Pretoria but the weather is definitely not one of them! So to celebrate spring and fill up some dead space in the courtyard I decided to… Read more →
My pretend in-laws recently taught me the art of knitting and I have been, ahem… hooked ever since. Initially I just wanted to learn how to knit to curb my smoking habit. If my hands are busy I can’t use them to light up. However, since then I have become obsessed with knitting. What blew my mind was the fact… Read more →
It has been a while since my last post, but I am back and have found words again. Yay! \0/! I sometimes get that thing where I forget how to communicate in proper sentences. I want to do everything in bullet point lists and that doesn’t make for good reading… This project has been languishing in the draft section for… Read more →
I am still struggling to find words (and my feet) after our French adventure. So here are some pictures from the Borough market in London. Read more →
Years of hostel living have made me a hater of all things soup. There is just something about that oniony, vegetable stock smell that immediately brings back a flood of angsty adolescent feelings and memories of cold hallways, even colder study halls and horrible margarine and polony sandwiches. However since I have been dating a kaaskop with a predilection for soup and… Read more →
So inclement weather, lack of time and a bloody fantastic wedding kind of kept me from finishing up the new and improved composting system at 3623 this weekend. And as I am off to the overseas for a little bit, it will just have to wait until I am home again. But I was not totally idle the past week… Read more →
I have the world’s most prodigious sweet tooth, as a matter of fact I don’t think I have one, I have a whole moth full! This condition causes havoc with weight control and keeping cholesterol down, but it has also led to some of the most amazing culinary discoveries; salted caramel fudge, rose water Turkish delights and chili chocolate, word and ice cream… ALL… Read more →
Although I am not fond of autumn, mostly because it precedes winter, I have come to appreciate it for its own beautiful colours. Up here in Pretoria it is an absolute pleasure to drive around Brooklyn and Rietondale and see all the liquid amber trees showing off their red-gold sunset coloured leaves. Rietondale Park is especially perfect for a lazy… Read more →
I have had a bee in my bonnet about hosting an outdoor movie night for ages. We finally got around to it in January when we hosted a screening of Searching for Sugarman in our backyard. It is such an ASEM movie, if you haven’t watched it yet make a plan… It was a rather last minute affair, a test… Read more →
