His Reputation Proceeds Him

My husband went to San Francisco this week to brief a company, who paid all kinds of money for him to be there and included the ultimate of carrots: a business-class ticket. When he walked into the meeting, filled with people whom he had never met before, someone asked him, “Aren’t you Germany’s Top Husband?” [...]

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How To Survive the Holidays

My kids are on holiday, the one fondly known as “skiing week” in Europe, except that we blew our budget on a 40th birthday party and are saving for a trip to South Africa at Easter, so there will be no toiling down Alps for me this season. Here’s how I am surviving the week [...]

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I Promise Not To

Live-blog the Oscars tonight. That was exhausting. Here’s the Depeche Mode video: I predict a big hit.

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Liveblogging the ECHO Awards

11.04pm: Wladimir Klitschko here to give a lifetime achievement award to the Scorpions for selling 75 million records, 60 albums, 300 songs, and being the most successful German rock band ever. The Scorpion medley is brilliant! Some real rock at last, and a great way to end the evening. 10.53pm: At last, here’s Depeche Mode, [...]

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Getting to Know Germany’s Top Husband

My husband is a star. He has been known to wipe vomit off my favourite pink satin shoes, he will happily take the children off for a skiing weekend and leave me alone to pick my hangnails and eat popcorn for breakfast, and he has a great sense of humour. First über-blogger Dooce did this [...]

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An American Frau Interviews Me

Remember the Interview Meme? It’s coming around again, just like the old Random Things About Me meme that’s turned up on Facebook recently and caused the Times Online to write a whole article about it. Really, do these journalists have nothing better to do than nose about on people’s Facebook pages and write about phenomena [...]

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Writing From Home

I love being a Hollywood correspondent! Here’s one I wrote yesterday, while cooking sausages for my kids’ lunch. Meanwhile, it dawned on me that I have been working on my novel for a year now. It all started when I took myself on an artist’s date to Heidelberg last January, sat in a cafe and [...]

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Pictures of Home

Drakensberg Mountains Howick Falls This is the landscape of my novel and also of my heart. (Photos courtesy my alma mater, The Natal Witness.)

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My New Gig

My writing life has taken many turns, and now it’s following a new path. Check out my new gig, corresponding to Hollywood from Germany. I have other articles in the pipeline and will let you know when they appear. Now, I may be a correspondent, resplendent with fabulosity, but I also have brownies in the [...]

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Tales From The Web

Number Five, February 2009 The Things to Make You Smile, But In An Ironic Way, Edition I don’t know about you, but for me January has been long, dark and slightly depressing. There have been protracted bouts of cancelling the car, I have read 11 eleven books (always a sign), my kids keep coming home [...]

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