I've just opened a package from India that arrived in the post today. I can smell the sweet spiciness that permeates everything there - including the pages of Eats Shoots & Leaves - the zero tolerance to approach to punctuation.
I bought the book, at a smidgen of what it would cost here, through www.abebooks.com.
I'm really impressed by the August issues of three magazines - The Property magazine for its brilliant full page (A3) pictures especially in the District Six feature, Naomi Larkin's newly edited Style that has done away with those full-page upfront columns that made it look more like a text book than lifestyle magazine and, my personal favorite - Top Billing Magazine. I haven't noticed another publisher printing cover lines on the plastic wrap instead of the cover - I much prefer the clean visual on their covers once it's unwrapped.
Checked out the new Shisha bar last night - Mesopotamia Restaurant in Church Street, Cape Town's answer to Hilderbrand's, Monk, Planet and Bascule's chic smoking bars. Deep-red couches and hubbly-bubbly pipes make this the perfect place to recline.
Loved the food too.
Off to lunch now at Carlucci's in Bantry Bay.