I had a really scary experience on Friday lunchtime. I was shaken up enough to take most of the afternoon off work and need a good deal of comforting through the evening. The thing is, it could have been so much worse. I didn’t come to any harm and I was able to get help…
Rasmus and I bought a RestoPass on Saturday. This is a pass which gives you 30% off the food total of your table’s bill up to €50 value, in 30 hand-picked restaurants around Brussels. Since we both LOVE eating out and trying new places, we figured this was a good investment. Even though some of…
One of the things I like about Belgium is its tendency to put public holidays in the middle of the week, rather than always on a Monday as in the UK. Yes, this makes it a little more awkward to take a long weekend, but is that really fun anyway when everyone else in the…
The summer after my first year of uni, waaaay back in the year 2004, I travelled back to South Africa where I’d been in my gap year, and volunteered for three months for a project called Phakama run by Youth For Christ KZN. I lived in a house they owned with about eight other volunteers…
Serving the City through feeding the homeless, clearing and painting a youth centre, teaching residents of an old people’s home to tango, helping people with disabilities learn to ride a bike, playing frisbee and football with asylum seekers, awareness raising about traffiking in our communities, cleaning up the parks… I am proud of this proud…
this is what i did on Sunday for my church’s birthday party… red velvet cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes and coconut lime cupcakes… all from tried and tested recipes! and then this is what they did with the left over chocolate cream cheese icing… p.s. if jodi kills me for posting these photos, it has been nice…
