This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 28 March 2021. I used to believe that there was something funny to be found in any situation. Which is a useful view to hold when you’re a humour writer. But now I’m not so sure. A few weeks ago, I had surgery on my knee,…
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Truth is stranger than fiction, not sexier
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times on 13th December, 2020. THE BOYFRIEND STACK – By Paige Nick There’s a wall in our family home, filled by my father edge-to-edge with photos of us. My siblings, their spouses and children; playing sport, celebrating milestones, catching fish, growing up too fast. Since I choose…
How to NOT write a book in 30 days.
This column first appeared here in the Sunday Times on Sunday 23rd November, 2020. How to NOT write a book in 30 days – By Paige Nick There’s a lot of writing advice out there. I just rewrote that first line seven times based on two tips I came across earlier: ‘Keep your opening line…
Personally, I don’t give a FAQ
This column first appeared in Sunday Times on 12th July 2020. https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2020-07-12-the-questions-we-really-should-be-asking-on-job-interviews-but-dont/ ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, or because I’m a little rude, as I like to call them, ‘FAQs’, is a relatively new acronym, coined by NASA at the start of internet times. But we were actually asking the original Frequently Asked Questions way before the…
URANUS IS IN RETROGRADE
This column first appeared here in the Sunday Times on 14th June 2020. URANUS IS IN RETROGRADE – By Paige Nick Astrology is beneath me. I mean that literally, not figuratively. See, it’s right there, beneath this column. Every Sunday, my guy and I perform the exact same one-act play. I even know the script…
Storytelling. The end.
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times on 7th June 2020.
Conversation Piece
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times ZA on 31 May 2020. It might just be one of my favourite-looking columns ever. I love the illustration they’ve used. In fact the entire Lifestyle Supplement is pretty hawt. Incredible articles about the rise and rise of memes. And more. This one is about how…
As luck would have it
This column first appeared HERE in The Sunday Times on 24th May 2020 on day two billion and a half of lock down. Are we lucky or unlucky?
Would you rather?
This column appeared in The Sunday Times on 17th May 2020. Click here to read it. It’s about our communal sense of humour failure, the game of ‘Would you rather?’ and The Argument we had during lockdown.
An emoji tyop
This column about emoji typos first appeared here in The Sunday Times on 10th May 2020. My friend Mikaela and I got into a debate the other day about the use of the this emoji 👆 What do you use it for? I thought it was sad or frustrated, turns out according to emojipedia, it’s…