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I finally found a CELEBRITY BAROMETER with class. From the Times: ‘Jennifer Aniston Aniston, possibly the world’s most dumped woman, has finally spoken about her former husband, Brad Pitt, leaving her for Angelina Jolie. “I thought what Angelina did was uncool,” she told Vanity Fair, instantly reigniting sales of the T-shirts that read either “Team [...]

Like today. Barack Obama. It is a big thing, and we celebrate appropriately (champagne). Other things, too often draped in history, should also be remembered, like good friends who were here not so long ago: And other beautiful people. A nephew: A niece and her mother: So today passes, and history is as it should [...]

From the Sydney Morning Herald: ‘The lawyer for the family who were allegedly served human faeces in gelato at the Coogee Bay Hotel in early October said today that offers by the hotel of DNA tests and container test results were stunts. Yesterday, Adam Wood, the former executive chef at the Coogee Bay Hotel offered to [...]

Growing your own cress for snipping onto those open-faced sandwiches (which are not as nasty as they sound, just openly begging for extras, like cress). Harvesting herbs from your garden (balcony), a free and priceless touch to any salad worth its name. Beetroot chocolate cake and pinot noir. Need I say more? Oh yes, and [...]

Spotted on a Cape Town road yesterday: “THNKSDAD” Given that the car – a nifty little new something – was driven by a young woman (let’s be kind, she was probably a first year student, and therefore somewhere on that very ambiguous road between child- and adulthood), this is Dad sending little Katy out into [...]