Beer & Food: SAB Pop Up Dinner

The idea that a couple of people would pay money to come and spend 2/3 hours having dinner with me is one that I still struggle to wrap my head around. Yet, about a week ago, about 8 people did, at a SAB Pop-up Dinner. The email said: “We are organising a mass food and beer pop-up kitchen with SAB in Johannesburg. All the pop-up kitchens will happen on the same night (Saturday 27 October) and they will all start at the same time (19:30). We would like to invite you to host one of these events at any location of your choice. The twist is that you will not be inviting the guests. Guests will...

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Musings – An Attempt To Understand Pain

I went to an international school, Machabeng High School, in a small African country, Lesotho, that has the privilege of being the only country in the world landlocked by one country. The teachers and students in my school came from all over the world and, at some stage, we had over 30 different nationalities from Sri Lankan, Ugandan, Kenyan, Egyptian, British to American, Irish, Swedish, Ghanaian and, of course, Basotho. This diversity, coupled with a home environment that was global in its outlook & influence, ensured that my reading, from an early age, was broad.  One of the areas I...

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