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?
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Standards are slipping
This column first appeared here, in The Sunday Times on 3rd May 2020. Have a column in today’s Sunday Times ZA about how standards in my home have dropped a little, during lockdown, while you’re all Marie Kondo-ing and learning Russian. Ndumiso Mapholoba Ngcobo has his regular column too, which should help you crack a smile. Please…
Liquor on Lockdown
This column about liquor on lockdown, first appeared in The Sunday Times on 12th April 20Crazy. You can read it here: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2020-04-12-booze-rules-all-bets-are-off-in-lockdown/
Is this the end or the beginning?
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times on 29th March 2020.
I’ve always been bad with numbers
This column appeared in The Sunday Times on 27th October 2019 I was boarding a plane, when a very lovely young flight attendant offered to help me with my luggage because he could see I was pregnant. I was momentarily conflicted. Yes, I definitely wanted him to help me with my luggage, I’d been humping…
She Said He Said – Anniversaries
SHE SAID, HE SAID – ANNIVERSARIES This column first appeared in the Sunday Times on 14 July 2019. He Said portion written by the wonderfully funny Jason Mykl Snyman. SHE SAID – By Paige Nick We’ve probably over-complicated things. There’s the anniversary of your first date. Oh wait, what about the first time you both…
Wanted dead or alive. Preferably alive.
This column first appeared in Wanted Magazine on 2nd November 2018 WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE. PREFERABLY ALIVE. – by Paige Nick Am I high end? I don’t lick the knife, I flew business class that one time, and I know how to use that weird cutlery for snails. But I have also been known to…
Sunday Times Review – Theo & Flora
This review first appeared here in the Sunday Times Lifestyle on 4th November 2018: REVIEW – By Paige Nick THEO & FLORA – MARK WINKLER (Penguin SA, 2018) **** The story behind this novel is almost as nuanced as the one in it. After Mark Winkler’s first novel (An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Absolutely Everything (Penguin,…
It’s a set up
This column first appeared in The Sunday Times on 21 October 2018: IT’S A SET-UP – Paige Nick I’ve made a terrible mistake. I set up two good friends. I’ve since played the whole thing out in my head a million different ways, and I can’t find a single way this ends well. She is…
Disaster dates
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times Lifestyle on 26th August 2018. SUNDAY TIMES FUNNY, NOT FUNNY – Paige Nick I don’t know why I find dating disasters so funny. I’m either a through and through psychopath, or there’s nothing wrong with me and it’s simple self-preservation. Like that thing where if you…