The landing outside Karin Schimke’s compact (and rather covetable) flat in Vredehoek, Cape Town, is a dead giveaway. It happily, and cosily, shrieks: “Book Person Living Here!” Books of all shapes and sizes spill out of the two wooden bookshelves. I am eyeing them enviously when she opens her front door. Yes, they’re hers, she…
It’s taken me a while to get going this year but I am finally ready to embrace January with, ahem, eight days to go! But it’s really been…
In the early 1990s, at the start of my career as a journalist, I was a reporter on The Argus when it was still a respectable afternoon paper…
Tony Jackman’s hearty approach to life and living are perfectly displayed in his gem of a cookbook, foodSTUFF – Reflections & recipes from a celebrated foodie. When he…
It is Jack’s exam week and a frazzled Sharon (52) has dispatched Jack (10) to the garden after a rocky (and let it be said not terribly productive)…