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There is a lovely boy celebrating his 11th birthday in Swaziland today, and if I were there I would bake him a cake. Instead, a stroll down cake lane… This was for him, from the candles, I’m guessing at 8 years? He requested a bat, and this was the best I could do. I remember [...]

Being out of lime, I’ve come up with a most curious concoction, and if I was a Celebity Chef I would surely include it in my book and it would surely intrigue you as a new “technique:: A (generous ) splash of vodka A squeeze of HONEY a dash – a dash, I say – [...]

Language continues to intrigue me; now, how we rely on verbs and tenses. Can we think in the future before we learn to speak it? Does tomorrow only exist once we learn the word? When I had to learn the subjunctive in Italian, it was not only the music of a foreign language that helped [...]

Or something like that. It is Swedish, and I am not, though some may call me – have called me – a Scandiwegian (though this this nicely coined word says nothing of Denmark, where I am actually from, somehow, somewhere). In Sweden they will say, if they are the funky jazzist Bo Kaspers, something like [...]

In the airport: “Ma’am, you have been selected for a special screening this morning. Follow me please, right this way”. So I got to hop the queue to the front, only to be taken to a “special” area at the back (I had been selected, after all) where every corner of my hand luggage (carry-on, [...]