Cape Town, My City.

This is the start of Christmas. Our office braai begins in T-minus two hours and fourteen minutes. I have been looking forward to this particular braai for over two weeks, counting the days and hours as they slowly rolled by. We have chosen a forest that I hope will not be too windy, as the [...]

My work presents me with many copywriting challenges, which I relish. This is of course, all good and well, as long as I am capable of living up to the tasks assigned to me. I was recently heavily critiqued on a body of work which me and my team spend a fair amount of time [...]

Friday night, I enjoyed a great home cooked dinner hosted by Nomonde, a new friend who is a qualified winemaker at a popular distillery here in Cape Town.
Over dinner among other things, we discussed the flexibility in which wine is consumed lately. I hold the belief that wine is like a culture that [...]

Someone pinch me… I still cannot get over the fact that I am now a Capetonian. It all happened so fast. Let me back track and start from the top. Two months ago my life read like this:
“Girl, 24 years old, single, living in a granny-flat …with her parents, broke, stuck- [...]

Its been crazy really,
The wind, the rain, this sudden rush of winter trying to keep its intense grip over us fine citizens of Cape Town, is really, truly insane. Being on a scooter also means that a). I’m in constant danger when it comes to the elements and b). Wind is the most dangerous of [...]

This whole market crash is serious business. The way it’s been explained to me, we are basically screwed in two years time. Recession, depression, nuclear war etc… It’s all happening and it’s happening soon. That means no more fancy Cape Town accommodation, vacations or even my nice, shiny flat! This is way too much to [...]

Cape town. Accommodation in Cape Town, Steven-style. The Four Seasons. My home and eventual hub of all roach activity in the Western Cape. I have lived in the city for close to five years now and I will never become used to these disgusting creatures. We [my girlfriend and I] begun renting this ‘lovely’ abode [...]