Brett “Fish” Anderson's Blog, page 27
May 22, 2015
Poetry with Erik with a K: Sea Fever by John Masefield
Here is Erik [with a K] reading Sea Fever by John Masefield recommended by Steve Heineman: What poem would you love to hear Erik [with a K] read next? Leave your reply in the comments and if you enjoyed this, please SHARE it with your people [For the first ever Erik with a K poem, […]
Top 10 things to do when you forgot to take your phone to the bathroom with you.
More people have cellphones than they do toilets. A startling fact according to a recent study made by the U.N. is that out of the world’s estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones, while only 4.5 billion have access to working toilets. This is a deeply disturbing fact, although that was back in 2013 […]
May 20, 2015
Some thoughts from Spaghetti conversations [with Babalwa Nyangeni]
A couple of weeks ago we had our Spaghetti conversation about race, location and boundary, which you can catch up on over here. Our friend Babs, was one of the guests who joined us and she had this reflection to add: A conversation about where you live becomes a conversation about your life, and in […]
Tandem Post: Mumbai
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? …No! It’s Jonty! And with one scoop of the ball and full-on dive into the stumps, Imzamam Ul Haq was run out and Jonty Rhodes changed cricket fielding. For. Ever. Until that point i had kinda watched cricket a little bit and tried to pick a guy […]
The Ice King, the Energiser Bunny and some fingers on a stick.
Imagine waking up one morning and going online and seeing a semi-naked-sprawled-out-on-the-bed-alongside-your-Improv-friend picture of yourself circling the internet… Cause for panic, right? You’d think so, unless the picture was this one: Which i woke up to a week or so ago and was like ‘Holy Crapamole, what’s my wife going to think?’ Fortunately tbV was awake […]
May 19, 2015
Andrea responds to Bob responding to everyone but Andrea
My friend Dre, who shared some excellent feedback to Bob’s first email over here, responded to his latest response in a comment but i asked her if i could rather share it as a post cos everyone should read this, especially but not solely, Bob. Dre for president!: Bob, you didn’t respond to MY post! *sniff […]
Taboo Topics: Cancer – Meet Wendy and Xylon van Eyck
I don’t know about you but growing up I believed that old people and other people got cancer. My gran passed away from cancer when I was in my early teens. So I knew cancer existed. I just didn’t think that cancer would be part of the story of someone young, or of someone I […]
May 18, 2015
Bob responds
About two weeks ago i published an email from a friend of mine who is white, male, South African and presently living in the UK who had some thoughts, feelings, questions and frustrations about life in South Africa and some of the conversations we’d been having on here. i shared his email under the guise […]
May 15, 2015
10 Books [besides 50 Shades of Grey] that should be sold alongside mine.
So many of you will know by now that i wrote a book. My buddy Brad went online yesterday to buy a copy from the UK Amazon store. Did i mention that my book is called ‘i, church’ and, somewhat strangely enough, it is about the church? What was surprising to Brad, and later to […]
Highlight Moment from my life #48: World’s Most Famous Dolphin – No_bob
Many of you will know of No_bob, the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin. But you may not know the story. In 2000 i flew to the UK to earn some money teaching [due to an unfortunate police clearance incident i only ended up doing five days of actual teaching which was a high-or-low-light of itself […]
