What do you value most?
It’s my 32nd birthday tomorrow and there’s no denying it, I’m well and truly an adult now. The question is, am I the adult that I always wanted to be? I always imagined that I’d be the sort of adult who did a lot of baking. I even wrote a little song to the tune of “If I Were a Rich Man” about owning an oven when I was in university res. That did not, um, pan out. I’m whatever the opposite of a domestic goddess is (a domestic demon?). I can cook maybe five things well, and half of them Graham doesn’t eat or I can’t eat. In truth,…
Wedding, Inktober and Writing – oh my!
The last half of 2018 has been a little crazy, here are a couple of highlights!
Life update: Having my cake and eating avo toast
Sunday afternoon saw us driving frantically across Cape Town trying to hit as many Checkers stores as we could before closing time. Why? Because I want to have a cake this year for my birthday and I don’t want to have to bake it myself. It’s interesting how times have changed. A few years back I was determined to make “trying a fantastic new cake recipe” a birthday tradition. But that was before eating flour was a no-no. The first birthday that I spent gluten intolerant, I baked a cake that tasted like cardboard and that no one in the office was brave enough to try (I…
Writing habits
I've been trying to write every day since I started this Nano2015 project back on 1 April. I've been recording my progress day-by-day since July and this is what I've learned.
