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Yesterday started with three hours of staring at bottles in an empty wine shop (I was behind the counter), but that was redeemed by the lunch that followed. We were going to go to a coffee shop, but decided against small, public spaces and having to pay for something you can do much better at [...]

It’s been some time since I have found myself at home in the favourite company of myself. Days and weeks have been busy and I always find myself longing for solitude when I can’t have it and then mildly anxious when I do find it. You get used to distractions as much as you loathe [...]

Now, I’m not really a fan of oysters. I’ve eaten them a few times, and found them not exactly unpleasant, but neither have they left me dreaming about the next time. Let’s put it this way: it wouldn’t be a calamity if I happened to never eat one again. Nevertheless, I have been, in the [...]

Highlights of the festive season that was: A well executed Danish Christmas eve in Woodstock, Cape Town, complete with: three perfectly roasted turkeys, agurkesalat (cucumber salad), rødkål (braised red cabbage), brunkartofler (caramelised potatoes) and ris a la mande (Danish rice pudding with a French name), good cheer and too many gifts. Somewhere on that night [...]

Contemplation time is over. The new year looms like a giant Monday. In less than two months time I’ll be travelling to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a four day conference on popular culture (they say: “if it isn’t popular, it isn’t culture”. Hmm). Got my hotel room booked, got the fancy shoes (to make me [...]