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“BraaiDay” song set to take SA by storm

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2011

Yeah, yeah – whatever. IMHO, this is amusing and deserves more exposure so I am exposing it. Not that anyone outside the Republic will understand the nuances of the song, but so what? Herewith “Derick Watts and the Sunday Blues” [sic] and their rendition of Braaiday:   Of course, “Braai Day” is actually held each year [...]

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Try Me I’m New

By 6000 | 6000 | October 6, 2009

Because my most important reader is me. And also because some people aren’t on twitter (my end of which has gone a bit crazy since I posted this earlier today). This photo: Which stomach-churningly combines two of the staples of South African cookery into one handy-to-braai sausage casing. At what point did someone actually stop whatever [...]

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Simple

By 6000 | 6000 | July 25, 2009

Flying high, originally uploaded by Ballacorkish. It’s been a taxing day in many ways and so we’re heading quota photoward again. Sorry about that. This one could have been taken in Cape Town today (although it wasn’t): bright and sunny with stunningly clear blue skies, so we chopped down some trees in the garden and burned [...]

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There’s nothing worse than a wet braai

By 6000 | 6000 | July 23, 2009

Not having a braai in the rain: that’s perfectly acceptable. When you need to braai, you need to braai and precipitation shouldn’t change that. No – I mean having damp braai apparatus. They go rusty, they get that nasty ash-paste in the bottom and they won’t light. Hence the age old expression: You never cry when [...]

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