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that today is National Butterscotch Brownie Day. (I kid you not). And while we’re on the topic, don’t miss National Emu Week, slated this year for May 5-13 (OMG, that’s now. What am I supposed to do?) I will be looking forward to the Teacher Thank You Week, coming up in the first week of [...]

From a recent review of The Joy of Drinking (Barbara Holland) in the New York Times: ‘The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Holland writes, “claims that a moderate beer drinker — whatever that means — swallows 11 percent of his dietary protein needs, 12 percent of the carbohydrates, 9 percent of essential phosphorus, 7 percent [...]

I’m doing one of my favourite things, which is to bake bread in the evening. My lounge is about to be overwhelmed by the smell of baking bread (bread that, contrary to souffle, rises beautifully in my oven), and that is a fine thing on a Wednesday evening. Someone I know is flying across the [...]

There’s a building across the road from where I work that is being demolished to make way for some new luxury hotel. All day the demolition crane has been banging away at the structure, which falls, bit by bit, in a steady rumble, punctuated now and again with a mighty thundering crash. People stop on [...]

In what is really the only decent way to celebrate getting to the end of a long day on campus, sundowners yesterday were taken in style on the Camps Bay “strip”. The view was good, as were the free nuts. Yet, for all the young, rich and beautiful that make up this party of the [...]