“Stop Philemon, kan jy reverse,” my brother said to our driver a couple of days ago. He’d seen eyeshine in the beam of the new Australian roo-spotter my other brother had brought out from the UK – even American hunters say it’s the best on the market - and something told him this might not be another impala. I swiveled my spot over to the r..»

Would you lie about your age? Shave a few years of here and there? Or refuse to divulge it – like one acquaintance who tells people she’s “21 plus VAT”? I’ve been posing this question to others and I’m somewhat surprised that pretty much everyone who responded to my tweets and status updates – ‘crowdsourcing’ sounds so much more impressive t..»

There’s a divide in Joburg. Quite a big one, in fact. I’d become aware of it some months ago, but it was only the other day when a friend of mine, formerly resident in Sunninghill, now in Craighall Park, celebrated the fact that he’d managed to escape the deadening ennui that characterises much of the north in Joburg. The Shooter Curtain, h..»

I have a dirty secret. It’s the sort of thing one shouldn’t really admit anywhere in public, let alone in a column that can be cached and Googled – but I really, really miss my BMW. Not only that, but I strongly suspect that were I still driving it, I’d genuinely be happier than I am right now. There are days when I positively ache for tha..»

I won’t lie to you, it’s nice not to be fat (for once). And not just not fat, but able to fit into size 30 stretch pants from Truworths. So my mother says I’m getting too thin, and Mo the IT dude at the agency tells me I look horrible (this is the same guy who recently took a look at my Facebook profile pic and said, “Thank goodness for Photos..»

You don’t appreciate the importance of the ability speak is until you lose it. Now, your response to this profound statement may well be to say, “Well, obviously”. But when, as I do, you spend such a big chunk of the day communicating through the written word – whether it is in the form of Powerpoint, Word, email, sms, chat, status updates o..»