I’ve mentioned here before what great letters I get from my column every week. Here’s one in response to Sunday’s column on jokes: Hi Nick As I am reading your column on this Heritage Day, I am not on speaking terms with my partner. She went last week back home to Durban to attend her…
Category: letters to sunday times
… and the ugly
So to continue on from yesterday, where I shared a couple of emails I received in response to my column on pick up lines, here’s one that got a little crazy. They come from a chap named Hans who first sent me this mail: How about a few affirmative action lines from liberated Sa women?…
The good, the pretty good…
You should see my column inbox. It’s like a big depository of mad, crazy, wonderful insanity. Sunday’s column was about the lost art of the pick up line and the mails have been pouring in ever since. I’ve picked out a few that I thought you might enjoy. The first was astonishing, in that it…
What a balls up!
As you may already know, I get a wide range of awesome letters lighting up my inbox every week, in response to the Sunday Times column. And they really came flooding in this week, in response to the nominative determinism column.One in particular made my day: So I thought I’d share parts of it with…
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Monday, Monday. A very smart man once told me that Monday is his favourite day of the week. I scoffed. He countered that Mondays are the best. That on a monday you’re your most productive and hope-filled self. You’re fresh, with all that stamina and optimism about all the good things you’re going to get…
A guy's take on a guy thing
So there were some grumpy mails/males in response to sunday’s column, about the way guys communicate with each other, so since this seems to be a week for clever responses (what with the whole Santam-Nandos-Santam thing), I thought I’d let a boy-person have a crack at a response. Please meet Roger. Roger was once into…
The great Chinese Bangle debacle of 2012
Must say, got a bit of a bollocking over the last 48 hours. Around 40 emails, dozens of tweets and two phone calls from people around the country, in response to Sunday’s column about the Chinese Bangle. (see post below) On the upside, always nice to feel heard, on the downside, never nice to be…
Did we finally beat Google?
So this week’s Sunday Times Column has a story behind it. It’s based on a comment posted here on this blog a few weeks ago, by one RK, Mumbai. I’m eternally grateful to him for the idea. I also hope somewhere in here I’ve answered his question. Happy reading, and happy monday. A MILLION MILES…
Dates gone bad
Here’s yesterdays Sunday Times column, hope you enjoy. Sorry, normal length week this week, I thought it’s best we all deal with the reality of it sooner rather than later. A MILLION MILES FROM NORMAL – By Paige Nick.THE DATING DOWNWARD SLIDEI thought practice was supposed to make perfect? Isn’t that what the famous ‘they’…
Or am I just getting old?
So as you know I get lots of amazing emails from my Sunday Times column every week. Just the other day a lady wrote to me and told me that she liked my column, but that she would like it more if I wrote a bit more about Jesus, and a little less about sex….