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Absolutely Adega

Absolutely Adega

My husband was happy to have both his daughters home on his birthday, a rare occurrence because my step-daughter has shuttled between Canada and South Africa for the past twelve years and was only with us during the Canadian school holidays....

 

Arniston Bay’s Recipe of the Month

Arniston Bay’s Recipe of the Month

We have picked Cindy Taylor as our Food Blogger of the Month thanks to her delicious Spaghetti Carbonara recipe. Cindy is the Editor of the hugely entertaining food blog , The Only Cin, and her writing and recipes deserve this prize. Here is...

 

Swiss Hotel School Cheese and Wine Tasting

We were invited to join Greg, our Editor in Chief on this blog, at the annual cheese and wine tasting hosted by the Swiss Hotel School last night. The 3rd year Swiss Hotel School students create an annual concept restaurant that operates for...

 

How We Eat

How We Eat

Hard luck to BlaBla for not making into the finals of the blog awards. Still, we’re a cheerful bunch and nothing can hold us back from continuing to build a very fine group blog. This writer says we should have some champers anyway, and some...

 

Summer Prawn Salad

Summer Prawn Salad

This dish is a perfect starter for a springtime luncheon, as easy on the eye as it is on the palate. Steamed prawns (enough for 4 people) seasoned with salt & pepper Green leaves: rocket, baby spinach, watercress and mizuna Fennel bulb,...

 

Teach Them to Have a Healthy Relationship With Food

Teach Them to Have a Healthy Relationship With Food

I overheard two women talking outside the gates of my daughter’s school some time ago. They were discussing their children’s eating habits; one said her son had refused anything but two-minute-noodles or pizza for over a year, the other...

 

High End City Life or the Simplicity of a Beach Cabin?

High End City Life or the Simplicity of a Beach Cabin?

source: decorabilitate

 

Make-Me-Better Beans

Make-Me-Better Beans

“If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well” Ruth Carlisle Everyone is sick in my house: Old Spouse, Original Bunn and Our Alice have flu and I am the sole hale and hearty...

 

Vuvuzela

Vuvuzela

It’s not a new thing, it’s been annoying people since 1660 …

 

The Only Cin Finally Feels the FIFA Love

Our men and children were guests of Mahindra at the England / America football game. We were alone and at leisure to eat, drink and be quite merry. And we did. I left Linda sitting at our table. We’d feasted; she on a seafood platter and me...

 

Indeed

Indeed

 

Whatever Floats Your Boat, I Guess

Whatever Floats Your Boat, I Guess

“Seems like a bunch of the rest of the world — well behind our curve — actually dislikes mid-century pink bathrooms. They will regret what they have done. On the other hand, I believe that to know pink bathrooms is to love them. Pink bathrooms...

 

I Think So Too

I Think So Too

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Oil

Oil

Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s graphic statement – Helvetica overlaying vintage illustrations – on the current ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s graphic statement–Helvetica overlaying vintage illustrations–on...

 

Wixed Mords

I found this many years ago and – for some reason – kept it folded in the sleeve of the cover of my ID book. The little scrap of paper is now ragged and threadbare, so I thought I’d share the contents here and throw the paper away: WIXED...