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Dairy Queen

By E | Posted on: June 11, 2009
Yesterday I heard one of the Cape’s more irksome radio hosts lamenting a new advertisement trying to get people to drink more milk. He wasn’t lambasting the idea of consuming more dairy, but found the ad untasteful. I haven’t seen the thing (not even Google could help me there), but apparently it satirised the crime [...]
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Treasures from afar

By E | Posted on: June 9, 2009
So it was a happy conclusion to many long days (of which the last was possibly the longest? I am convinced that there were actually two hours disguised in every one of yesterday’s) that I could collect the Philosophe from the labyrinthine mess of Cape Town’s “International Airport” last night. Today I’m wearing a t-shirt [...]
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Blank

By E | Posted on: May 30, 2009
So it’s been a week since I put the Philosophe on a plane that took him far far away. It’s funny how easily you forget to be alone – in fact I remember I used to take some pride in how good I was at being alone. I was adamantly not lonely – just alone, [...]
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The big brown(ie hell) hole

By E | Posted on: May 24, 2009
There were days, nay months (dare I even confess to a year) when I was obsessed with finding the perfect muffin recipe. Not any old thing that “works”: I needed to recreate the only muffin that I have respect for, which comes from the unlikeliest of places, which is UCT campus. They make (on good [...]
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Sex Trek

By E | Posted on: May 16, 2009
After variously sorting out the world in a bumper morning’s work, the Philosophe and I allowed ourselves the naughty indulgence of a Friday afternoon at the cinema, so off we went to Star Trek. I confess to being one of those culturally superior inferior people who have never watched any of the Star Trek films [...]
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Oh, Happy Days

By E | Posted on: May 6, 2009
I was about to write a happy post, inspired by this picture of my lovely niece Zahara: Because that is a wonderful smile. If she were a tube of toothpaste, the stripey stuff would be all over the floor, that’s how much excitement she’s squeezing out of her little mouth. (I believe the occasion was [...]
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Ice, baby

By E | Posted on: May 3, 2009
So it’s been a while, but it’s not my fault. I was in Swaziland, where my mother lives happily in a beautiful spot, but unhappily 2km short of the radius that would give her access to broadband. I had a good time there, quiet and lively as always – quiet because not much happens (good [...]
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Easter eggs and lamb

By E | Posted on: April 16, 2009
People on a listerv I belong to have been swapping thoughts on some (Polish?) Easter cake in the shape of a lamb, with a flag sticking out of its back. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to make a cake in the shape of a lamb, nor stick a flag in it. I can, [...]
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Le whif (…le freak, c’est chic)

By E | Posted on: April 13, 2009
Love chocolate? Terrified of calories? Fear not: now Harvard scientists have come up with a chocolate whiffer that allows you to inhale the taste of chocolate to your heart’s delight, and never worry about the evil stuff passing your lips and ending on your hips. It’s true: Says inventor David Edwards: “Over the centuries we’ve [...]
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Uffe, my father

By E | Posted on: April 12, 2009
15 October 1940 – 12 April 2000
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