When should a guest leave? At Lunch, the answer involved old-fashioned etiquette, disappearing hosts, bed bugs, flying furniture and a rather worrying dinner invitation. By Rosii in Sao Paulo, Monica in Adelaide, down under, the Mayor in Indian Summery Cleebourg and hosted by Fruitloop in sizzling South Africa. What could go wrong? It started with…
From German handshakes and French formalities to South African aunties and an imaginary royal emergency, the Lunch table discovers that good manners are not always as simple as they seem. By Monica in Adelaide, Australia, Nathalie in Accra, Ghana, Fruitloop (Janita) in South Africa and The Mayor, Uncle Frank (Frank) in Cleebourg, France. Rosii in…
By Rosii in Sao Paulo, Janita (Fruitloop) in South Africa, and Frank (The Mayor) in Cleebourg which is in France. Monika was in the vineyards somewhere along the Mosel River in Germany. We started with harmless habits, wandering curtains and unfinished bottle lids. Then Rosii chose one very particular English word, and suddenly the table…
By Rosii (Sao Paulo), Nathalie (Accra), with Fruitloop (South Africa) and the Mayor (Cleebourg). One minute late, fifteen minutes late, three hours late with a magnificent cake — somewhere between the clock and the dinner table, we discovered that “on time” is not nearly as simple as it sounds. There are people who arrive early,…
Lunch with Rosii, (Brazil), Janita (Fruitloop, South Africa), Frank, (The Mayor, France) We use them, lose them, complain when they stop working and almost never wonder who invented them. Then Fruitloop suggested replacing the doorbell with a mousetrap, and ordinary life became considerably less ordinary. Some inventions arrive with fanfare. Others quietly enter our lives,…
With Rosii, Brazil, Janita, South Africa, Frank, France. Monica was hopping around in the Tundra and sent her apologies. At Lunch, a conversation about household rules travels from polished pans and shoes on balconies to ice-cube crimes, secret rule-breaking and the dangerous question of whether there is only one correct way to make a bed….
Rosie in Sao Paulo, Fruitloop in South Africa, The Mayor in Cleebourg. Monica, who found the fjords of Norway more attractive, sent her regards. From mystery cables and faded receipts to old radios, corks and instruction manuals, one ordinary drawer reveals a surprisingly human reason why we struggle to let things go. There is a…
By Rosie, Brazil, Fruitloop, South Africa and The Mayor, France. Some questions make us stop and think. Others send us towards fortune tellers, forbidden soup and aliens building pyramids. At Lunch, apparently, both kinds are equally important. The conversation started, as Lunch conversations often do, somewhere between ordinary life and mild chaos. Rosii arrived tired…
With Monica, currently in Germany; Rosii, in Sao Paulo; Fruitloop, in sunny South Africa; and The Mayor at home. Curiosity begins with delayed trains and Sunday traffic, wanders through secret boxes, forbidden buttons and mysterious doors, and somehow ends up somewhere between Narnia, a five-course dinner and a very well-guarded bar of chocolate. Curiosity was…
Sometimes we return because we miss something. Sometimes we return and discover it has changed. And sometimes the past comes looking for us through a volleyball, a bowl of beetroot, a song—or a very suspicious fridge. The question sounded simple enough. “What is something you keep coming back to, even though nobody is making you?”…
