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Getting smarter

By E on September 29, 2011

So “they” came back to rob us a third time, and this time yes, they did take a shit on the floor (courteously enough, just outside the kitchen door). And they took pretty much everything else they could get their hands on. Third time lucky? Not so much. It’s been a pretty sordid five weeks. [...]

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Don’t mess with my re-tweet

By E on September 13, 2011

Warning: soapbox moment I woke up early today to get some work done before the “other” work took over the day (going to campus, teaching, marking). As usual, I spend my first cup of coffee trawling through my Google Reader and Twitter to catch up on the night’s news. Among these tidbits I found news [...]

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Still sucking

By E on September 1, 2011

Just a short note, really, to tell a true little story with no moral that I wish I didn’t know. So you get robbed, and you put in new locks. You sleep badly for a few days, but eventually fatigue sets in and you have to get over it. Ten days later your excellent insurance [...]

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Some Fridays Really Suck

By E on August 13, 2011

Like yesterday. I was actually looking forward to yesterday, because well, it was Friday. Which meant final lectures of the week, which meant a nice evening with a friend to look forward to, followed by a weekend of quiet time for some “real” work. First, it rained, and here is the umbrella that I should [...]

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Hipster popcorn

By E on July 28, 2011

New at Woolies: They call them Popsters, they say, Yes, we tried them frozen. Munch better? Not so sure. It was some pretty crunchy chocolatey goodness, but they could have been Maltesers. Or chocolate malt balls (same thing?). Whatever. The freezer pretty much killed any popcorn flavour. Then again, who really wants to eat frozen [...]

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Burger schmurger

By E on July 24, 2011

Two weeks or so ago the Philosophe asked if I would consent to being all ‘Capetonian’ and hitting the Loading Bay for a burger. The Loading Bay, for all non-Capetonians (and that includes some of you who actually live in the city but who – like ourselves – roll on different wheels), is a clothing-accessory [...]

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Birthday tripping

By E on July 4, 2011

I have a birthday coming up in a few days, and for the first time in years (ever?), I am quite happy to let it pass quietly by. See, I’ve just spent 14 days in various manifestations of the pictures above: mostly on a boat (pictured centrally, she is Isola Bella, the beautiful island), where [...]

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Gone boating (and perhaps fishing)

By E on June 10, 2011

If I were a (better) food blogger, I would have spent all yesterday evening taking pictures of the wonderful food we ate (again) at the much-loved Test Kitchen, and then all morning uploading them for you, dear reader, to drool over. These pages would similarly be dripping with pictures of fantastic plates of fillet, osso [...]

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Brownies, redux: Trust no-one!

By E on May 18, 2011

While the rest of South Africa is out doing something important today, I though I should do something important to. So I made brownies. Again. Yawn. I know, I have said it time and again that I will stop this madness. But wait! This time I cracked it. Let me be clear: I have not [...]

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Lessons (re-)learned from Thor 3D

By E on May 6, 2011

On the film: 1. Do not trust IMDB ratings (7.6: really?). 2. Do not be fooled by the quality connotations of “Kenneth Branagh” or “Anthony Hopkins”. 3. Do not expect visual wonders from “3D”: here it was obviously just a ploy to sell you stoopid glasses @R6 each. 4. Natalie Portman does not make everything [...]

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