Grown-ups’ Time?

I should be delighted that our children have allowed the sport bug to bite. Apart from the benefits to health, fitness and overall sense of well-being, adding sport to the schedule reduces the time available for shopping malls and other favoured teenage pursuits. Sport practices on weekday afternoons are not a huge imposition, although Aedan’s [...]

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Idolising Idols

Idols is back (which means I won’t be answering my phone between 5.30 and 7.00 on Sunday nights). If last night’s opener, covering the Cape Town auditions, is anything to go by it’s going to be the best season ever. We had everything, from the returning (no-hoper) wooden mic winner proudly saying how many times [...]

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The Bio-BBQ

Over the years we’ve done a lot of braai-ing. Doing this effectively – especially when we’re cooking for several hundred (or thousand!) people over the course of a few hours – requires a dependable and long-lasting source of coals. Nam-Char charcoal (not briquettes) is the product that has given us the best results, but we [...]

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