Category: Water (Personal)

Perhaps the title is a little misleading, as I didn’t actually fight in World War I, nor do I feel any nostalgia towards the event. But my grandfather was involved in the war, and seeing as yesterday’s post seemed to expect a sequel… I never knew my grandfather that well. He came to live with… Continue reading Nostalgia II: World War I

Today was my mother’s birthday. I had a bit of time before the party started, so I decided to drive around Pinelands, where she lives and where I grew up, and see how things have changed in the years since I lived there. The suburb of Pinelands is somewhat of a joke in some circles… Continue reading Nostalgia I: Pinelands

It won’t surprise anybody who knows me that I’ve finally signed up to do a nutrition course. So, in about 500 hours I should be a qualified clinical nutritionist 🙂 But more important than the meaningless piece of paper (at least to me – others may be impressed:) ) is the motivation it gives me… Continue reading Another piece of paper

Sometimes it horrifies my friend’s to hear this, but I love rugby. I surround myself with two many vegetarian, progressive, revolutionary, geeky, foreign, and, well, women people, to be able to share the joy of watching a good game with any sort of frequency, but I still love it. The joy of Baksteen piling into… Continue reading I love rugby, and childhood memories

I’ve just deleted about a gazillion referer spam hits from my logs. Thanks to b2evolution’s great spam-control system it’s been fairly painless, but the spam certainly had time to piss me off 🙂 I have a soft spot for quite a few sorts of illegal or at least socially disliked behaviour. Graffiti can be the… Continue reading What pisses me off about spam

Having just come back from a few days in Johanesburg, only the second substantial visit since 1992, I was once again struck by the differences with Cape Town. I like Joburg. It’s got a big city buzz, things are happening, it’s got an African feel to it. It gives me a perspective on Cape Town… Continue reading A 5-day view of Johanesburg

My laptop is no longer my own. A nefarious intelligence has taken control, and there’s nothing I’ve been able to do. Linux has been no protection. Going offline has been no help. The sentience masterminding the takeover has been relentlous. So far I’ve not been stopped from working. It’s been a symbiotic relationship. I fear… Continue reading My laptop has been taken over

With good timing after my recent cooking disaster, I’m attending an Ayurvedic cooking course. It’s only one and a half days, but does cover a reasonable amount of theory. Having a fairly good amateur knowledge of western nutrition, and an interest in Chinese Traditional Medicine (practising tai chi), I’m interested in seeing the overlaps between… Continue reading Ayurvedic cooking

One of IOL’s farewell presents to me was Nick Cave’s latest release, B-Sides and Rarities. I’m a Nick Cave fanatic as it is, but with this album I’ve listened to nothing else since I got it a week ago. I’ve just put Cave’s Abattoir Blues on now for some diversity! I had some trepidation –… Continue reading Nick Cave B-Sides and Rarities.

As I prepared to write this, the words ‘the most god-awful meal I’ve ever cooked’ came to mind. But I’m eating as I type, and it’s getting better all the time. And to become the most god-awful, there’re a number of key contenders to overcome. My beetroot soup comes to mind. The day after being… Continue reading The art of optimum cooking