Musings
Voting with my fork
To eat meat, or not to eat meat – is that the question, or is there more to it than either or? In my view, we need to find a more balanced path to reducing our impact on the planet than overnight global vegetarianism, but there are those who disagree…
Even organic veges couldn’t save me from being mowed down by RoadRunner Flu
Wow. There I was getting all smug in the certainty that I was immune. That I was not going to succumb to the mean flu bugs that are taking down half (or more) of Cape Town. Why? Because I eat organic food, of course, which means I am definitely much healthier (more nutrients, happier plants, [...]
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall: Getting A Reality Check At Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
I went, recently, to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens to see a set of photographs on display there that have been causing a bit of a stir… They’re part of the Hard Rain exhibition, an outdoor photography exhibit with a strong message: we’re messing up our planet (big-time), and we need to do something about it. Global [...]
International Buy Nothing Day: Could You Spend A Whole Day Buying Nothing?
I had the fantastic opportunity to backpack around Europe for several months of this year and came back having learnt how very easy it is to survive with very little at all. In fact, the thing you learn fastest when you’re travelling with everything on your back is that the less you have to carry [...]
I’m Back!
As you may have noticed, there’s been no activity on Mother City Living for some time now. Of course, I should probably have mentioned the fact that I was going on a 3-4 month trip overseas before I upped and vanished, but such was the excitement of the venture that I clean forgot. And then, [...]
Cellphones And Bees And Global Famine
I read an article today that was rather chilling. It’s about the unexplained disappearance of thousands of crop-pollinating bees in the US – and the possible role played by cellphones. It’s not something I’d generally think to write about on Mother City Living, seeing as it isn’t (yet) relevant to Cape Town, but my recent [...]
Fickle Fickle February
What the hell happened to summer? As anyone who’s been in Cape Town over the last month will know, the weather has been on people’s minds even more than usual. A couple of weeks ago those of us without aircon sweltered through days and unending days of stifling heat (over 40 degrees in the city [...]
Get Your Apocalypse Now! Comet Hunting Can Be Addictive…
Well, it can definitely be said that Comet McNaught was not at all camera-shy. Unlike its hard-to-spot predecessor, Halley’s Comet (back in 1986), McNaught brazenly blazed across Cape Town’s skies in apocalyptic fashion, and we Capetonians came out in force to catch a glimpse of this celestial spectacle. For me, it became something of an [...]
