A few weeks ago, I went to the British Museum to see Life and Death in Pompeii and the Herculaneum, an exhibition of about 250 objects, specifically focused around home life in the ill-fated cities. I booked my tickets as far back as April, when … [Read more]
How to be me: the creative hustler
June 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I used to cringe every time I was called a ‘creative person’. Writing wasn’t ‘creative’, it was my job. It paid the bills. Photographers, filmmakers and artists did creativity. Not me, the hustling writer - I had no time. Well, not … [Read more]
Remembering Bandar Abdulaziz – albeit an all-too-common African story
February 9, 2013 By 4 Comments
In October 2010, Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud was sentenced to at least twenty years in prison for killing his Sudanese servant, Bandar Abdulaziz, in a sexually motivated assault. The Saudi prince had treated Bandar as his possession, to … [Read more]
Freefrom food review: Tesco wheat-free pasta
December 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The problem with reviewing wheat-free pasta is that pasta is a wheat-based product. So, technically speaking, wheat-free pasta is not pasta. Which means that I’m reviewing something that wants to be like pasta but, is not and can never be pasta. … [Read more]
My life – an open book of random thoughts
December 10, 2012 By 1 Comment
I am: A militant ex-smoker. I really can't stand people talking to me with tobacco breath. Get a life or even better, some breath mints. The greatest deception is: That writers are intelligent. The greatest lessons are: Learnt in the valley of … [Read more]