You cannot separate food, stories, and place. Food frames and contextualises the culture, history, social order, and of course, the politics of a place. Food is personal. Nothing proves this more than the the latest shitshow courtesy of the Department of Land Reform, Agriculture and Rural Development’s (DALRRD) Food Safety Authority (FSA). In a naming …
National Lockdown Day: 272 There are many television shows, particularly of the BBC ilk, about abandoning the “rat race”, and living a more simple and wholesome life. Why not Escape to the Country (2002-present), where you sell your London studio and embark on a new life in Dorset, surrounded by lush greenery and mooing? Or …
National Lockdown: Day Thirteen My exceptionally dazzling friend Louise posed the question, “Why are we cursed with Bheki Cele- isn’t Coronavirus enough?” This got me thinking that it’s about high time we spoke about the “not so new” Sheriff in town, Bheki Cele. Bheki Cele is basically one step down from the Sheriff of Nottingham, …
National Lockdown: Day Two Ron Moss and I have had another great day together. I’ve been chatting to him quite a lot despite the fact that he really is empty inside. But, I guess he does provide some company, and at this stage I’ll take all the company I can get. And, it seems that …
There’s not even room enough to be anywhere It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there Well my sense of humanity is going down the drain Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain (Bob Dylan) This has been the unwitting soundtrack to this week… a beautiful coincidence brought upon by the shuffle …
Put on your seat belts folks, and bust out those half time oranges! There’s an old rugby cliché that the two Davids seem to be embracing; ‘Well that was a game of two halves’… And boy oh boy don’t they look like a couple of Naases. Apparently there are psychologists cashing in on all the …
A brief observation involving smoked trout, a woman, and her 3 (4?) year old daughter. Woolies Dean Street really is the gift that keeps on giving. And, now that they’ve revamped they’re really killing it from the perspective of attracting a new class of wanky shoppers. I’m a wanky shopper. I love Woolworths and I …
For today’s lesson (OK, this is technically a repost of something I wrote back in 2017, which I have lovingly re-written) in awkward as fuck advertising I introduce Browns… I refer to Browns as the jewellery shop where you literally take it up the… moving on. It’s no secret I think diamonds are very pointless …
OK guys, we need to talk. It’s not me, it’s you. Let’s not be friends. It’s no secret I’m a vigilante bullshit police officer on the Internet. I’m 35 years old now, so I’m easing into life as a grumpy woman. I’m totally OK with it. Why just yesterday I posted a “this is a …
The logic of avoiding Black Friday Madness by staying in and shopping online speaks volumes about human stupidity. 1. ‘I don’t want to go near malls today because they’ll be overrun by Black Friday Madness! Gross all those people. I hate crowds…’ 2. Such people go immediately to online shopping and get annoyed because sites are …