So I’ve emigrated to London! It’s been a whirlwind year of wrapping things up on my various South African hustles (and also working to earn my financial “cushion” for arriving in an expensive city with no job lined up), selling the contents of my apartment, sorting and packing my wardrobe (my “A-list” clothes to take with me and my “B-list” clothes to leave with my parents and collect at a later date) and trying to squeeze the most out of my last few months in Cape Town. Hence the lack of blog posts… By the time my departure date arrived I was in desperate need of a holiday. Fortunately I’d anticipated this in advance and planned a trip to the South of France. [Read more…]
Have you ever set out to cook something that seemed really simple, so you decided to forgo any recipe or research, chucked a bunch of ingredients together with a large cup of optimism, put it into the oven/pot/fryer on a wing & a prayer and it turned out utterly amazing?! So much so that you decided you must be an undiscovered culinary savant and started yelling at the TV “No you’re rubbish, Gordon Ramsey!”