Innholdsfortegnelse for 10 August 2023 i You South Africa

I DON’T think I’d describe myself as a perfectionist. Yes, I do push hard to get things right and I expect the same from others, but I don’t spiral if things happen to be different from what the textbook says. As I’ve grown older I’ve realised there’s actually no such thing as being perfect. If you think about it, what does that word even mean? If I bake a chocolate peanut butter cake that’s slightly lopsided, my husband is still going to eat every crumb with relish. If I take a photograph that’s a bit off-centre, my sister is still going to adore the image of her beautiful boys. If I buy a book that’s scuffed in one corner, my friend will still love the words of wisdom it contains.…

SWEDISH MEATBALLS SERVES 4 / PREPARATION: 15 MINS / STANDING: 30 MINS / COOKING: 45 MINS The deliciously decadent cream sauce is made in the same pan as the meatballs. ▸15ml (1T) oil, plus extra for frying▸1 onion, chopped▸1 garlic clove, grated (optional)▸150g beef mince▸150g pork mince▸2,5ml (½t) Allspice▸2,5ml (½t) ground nutmeg▸2,5ml (½t) white pepper▸salt▸1 egg, beaten▸1 Weet-Bix brick, crumbled SAUCE ▸15ml (1T) butter▸30ml (2T) flour▸125ml (½c) beef stock (made with 1 beef stock cube and 125ml (½c) hot water, plus more if necessary▸125ml (½c) cream grated zest of▸1 lemon TO FINISH ▸fresh parsley▸side dish of your choice 1 Heat the oil in a deep pan or pot and fry the onion until golden brown. Add the garlic (if using) and set aside. 2 Mix the onion mixture with the…

WALL & ALL This is a pretty and an affordable way to liven up a boring spot in your garden or on your patio. Paint the wall in a colour of your choice. Then give your tins a lick of paint using any outdoor or chalk paint and secure to the wall with nails or hooks so they appear to float. IN THE GARDEN Bigger tins will work well to grow veggies such as tomatoes, while smaller cans can be used for herbs and succulents. Create a lovely focal point by adding several sizes of tins to a tray and feature it on an outside table or anywhere in your garden. HANG IT UP Add some light during load-shedding with this cute idea. Keep the cans just as they are…

YOUR MONEY SORTED DO YOU feel your salary doesn’t reflect the job you’re doing? Maybe you’ve taken on more responsibilities or you’ve noticed similar positions being advertised with a higher salary. If this applies to you, it may be time for a salary increase. Here are 5 helpful tips. 1 GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT First, make sure you are indeed being paid too little. If you ask for a higher salary without having grounds to do so, you might come across as arrogant – which could harm your chances of getting a raise. There are several ways to determine if your salary is market-related: Conduct online research. Websites such as PayScale, CareerJunction and even LinkedIn can provide you with a good idea of what employees are paid on average for…

THEY are words that have become almost as famous as the act they were uttered in reaction to. “I am become death, destroyer of worlds,” said J Robert Oppenheimer, quoting from the Hindu scriptures as the sky lit up with a blaze of colour. The chief of the Manhattan Project spoke these words just seconds after the world’s first atomic bomb, nicknamed “the gadget”, was detonated in New Mexico in July 1945. Less than a month later, the devastating nuclear technology was used on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, acts which ended the Second World War, but took as many as 170 000 lives in the process. “Like it or not, Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived,” says director Christopher Nolan. “He [and his…

'IT WAS at the rugby championship in New Zealand in 2018 that I started getting a dry cough and shivers, as if I had a bad cold. I felt feverish and had a tingling feeling on my skin like gooseflesh. I wasn’t worried, though, because it didn’t last long. The team doctor, Dr Konrad Von Hagen, took my temperature, which was around 38 degrees. I don’t like to moan about illness, but I told him I felt I had something in my throat that was causing me to cough. He wasn’t sure what it was and put me on a course of antibiotics. The sensation would come and go. I treated it by having a bath, and my wife gave me injections of Voltaren. It was never so bad that…

‘Tom is very capable of being a devoted husband and parent. This is what gets to Bradley’– A SOURCE TO THE DAILY MAIL TOM AND IRINA’S HOT HOOK-UP WHERE there’s smoke in Hollywood, there’s almost certainly fire. Just weeks after denying a romantic spark, things between new couple TOM BRADY and IRINA SHAYK sure seem to be heating up. The American football star and Russian model were photographed together during a recent romantic weekend at Tom’s Los Angeles home. According to sources, Tom (46) invited New York-based Irina (37) to visit him in LA. He picked her up from the airport and they didn’t emerge from his pad until the next morning. They reportedly first hit it off in June when they were both guests at billionaire art dealer Joe…

SOME actors are just born to play certain roles – take MARGOT ROBBIE for instance. With her long blonde hair, lithe physique and gleaming smile she makes the perfect Barbie. But what fans of the major blockbuster might not know is that another blonde was originally set to star as the iconic doll. In 2016 comedy actress AMY SCHUMER was cast as Barbie in a different version of the movie, which saw her character being kicked out of Barbie Land for not being perfect enough, but she ended up pulling out of the project over creative differences. In 2018 the rights to the film were transferred from Sony Pictures to Warner Bros and Margot was later cast as the dazzling doll. With director and writer Greta Gerwig at the helm…

X MARKS THE SPOT Twitter says bye to iconic blue bird ELON MUSK’s plan to rebrand Twitter as X got off to a rocky start when police stopped workers from removing the old name from the sign at the company’s San Francisco head offices. The tech boss recently announced plans to replace the platform’s distinctive bird logo with the letter X, which will also become the new name of the app. Elon has long been obsessed with the letter X – his space manufacturing company is named SpaceX (short for exploration), his son’s name is X AE A-XII (pronounced X-Ash-A-12) and he’s renamed conference rooms at the social media company’s headquarters to incorporate the letter X. According to The New York Times, one room has been renamed s3xy, while another…

Adele* went through the IVF process at the same time as Lauren Dickason (who had 17 rounds) and recalls how happy Lauren had been when she finally conceived her first child, Sarah. “I recall the regular updates about how the baby was growing,” she tells YOU. “But then came the message I couldn’t believe: ‘I’ve been in hospital for the past two days. Things aren’t looking good. The baby isn’t going to make it.” Sarah was stillborn at 22 weeks and it “broke” Lauren, Adele says. Then she conceived Liané and it “gave her the will to reclaim her life”. Lauren quit her job as a doctor to focus on the IVF process, Adele says. “She told me, ‘I love my job, but I desperately want to be a mother’.”…

LEO 22 JULY – 22 AUG THINGS ARE LOOKING UP AT WORK It ought to be a happy time for you when your ruling planet, the Sun, meets up with love diva, Venus, on the 13th. But at the same time it’s worth considering that Venus is moving backwards and that radical Uranus is also poking around. Unfortunately, this means life is unlikely to remain happy and uncomplicated. If you’re not content with your current work situation, be on the lookout for an unexpected opportunity that may take you down a new path. YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS 8, 22, 35, 44, 21, 7 VIRGO 23 AUG – 22 SEPT If someone is trying to persuade you to enter into investments that make you feel uncomfortable, realise that this is your gut…

KILLING MOON By JO NESBO Harvill Secker Harry Hole, the brilliant maverick Norwegian detective, has fled to California. He’s grieving the loss of his wife, Rakel, and blames himself for her death. Down and out, living in a cheap hotel and drinking himself into a stupor every day, he meets Lucille, an ageing actress and gambling addict, in a bar. She’s deep in debt and in mortal danger. When two young women disappear in Norway, it creates a means for Harry to come to the rescue of Lucille, for the main suspect in the disappearance and subsequent murder of the women, wants Harry to prove his innocence. Harry accepts on condition that he’s paid enough to clear Lucille’s gambling debts. In this, the 13th book in the Harry Hole series,…

Adventurous brothers make waves with model boats WE TALK ABOUT THEY’VE sailed a toy pirate ship almost 6 000km from the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea, sent LEGO toys on a spacecraft to Mars and explored the ocean floor. Ollie and Harry Ferguson (pictured), two brothers from Scotland, have long enjoyed the thrill of adventure. Now they’ve launched two model boats that will sail around Antarctica to help understand climate conditions in the area. The brothers were inspired by the expeditions of British seafarer James Clark Ross, who ventured around Antarctica in 1839. Ollie (13) and Harry (11) built tiny replicas of James’ boats, equipped with scientific instruments that’ll transmit data back to them. The data will contain information about locations, air temperature, sea temperature and the pH levels…

IT’S been Barbie this and Barbie that since the world first got a whiff of a movie in the making – but now that the film is finally here in all its pinkness, another character is emerging as the scene-stealing star. Margot Robbie as Barbie is good – but it’s Ryan Gosling as Ken the critics are really raving about. He plays the adoring doll that orbits Barbie’s world, flashing his washboard abs and staring dreamily at the love of his life with his striking baby blues. His job is simply “beach” and just as clean-cut and athletic as Barbie’s boyfriend should be. But this Ken is a lot more than an easy-on-the-eye jock with perfect hair and bright-white teeth. He belts out ballads, manoeuvres his way through choreographed moves…

1 ‘IT WASN’T MUTUAL’ Actress TIFFANY HADDISH has come out saying her break-up with COMMON was anything but mutual. In an interview with The Washington Post she (43) reveals she knew the writing was on the wall when the rapper (51) started excluding her from events, including his birthday party. He eventually broke up with her over the phone. “It was more him saying, ‘I think this relationship has run its course’,” she said. “And I was like, ‘OK. Like you gonna be a 50-year-old single man? OK’.” 2 KEVIN FOUND NOT GUILTY Actor KEVIN SPACEY is looking to rebuild his career after being found not guilty of seven charges of sexual assault and two other sexual offences against four men. The Oscar winner first faced accusations of misconduct in…

A SECRET deal between Buckingham Palace and senior media executives, a duke claiming his beloved grandmother was in on it – and a judge telling him he was basically making it all up. All this and more played out in a London court recently and Prince Harry didn’t emerge a winner as a judge laid into him. Harry brought a case against News Group Newspapers (NGN) claiming, among other things, that his phone had been hacked by reporters working for the group’s publications The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World. But a recent ruling went against him – and it was the latest blow for the duke whose life is somewhat in limbo as Brand Sussex battles to find purchase in an increasingly competitive world. WHAT THE JUDGE…

ONCE upon a time she was a slip of a thing with an almost flat chest and thin lips and – well, everything was just so different to the Kylie Jenner we now know. This one has been plumped and pumped and sculpted in all the strategic places, transforming her from a pretty girl next door into a voluptuous bombshell. For years the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan denied she’d had work done, saying reports of her having gone under the knife were greatly exaggerated. “People think I completely reconstructed my face, which is completely false,” she said. “They don’t understand what good hair and makeup and, like, fillers can do.” She never said anything about getting her chest enhanced though, and it remained one of the many things…

MY LIFE HAS BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN! Q I recently came across an old friend from varsity and he invited me on an evening out. I agreed as we were good friends while we studied and thought it would be nice to catch up. During the evening he asked me to accompany him to a warehouse he owns. He wanted my advice on changes to the building as I’m an architect. While we were there he had his henchmen bring in a man who owed him money and he seriously assaulted him and threw him out in the street. He then threatened me saying if I went to the police he would go after my fiancée. I can’t get the victim out of my head. How he was beaten to…

HOW MANY FINGERS A man loses three fingers in a horrific work accident. He asks the doctor if he’ll be able to drive with that hand. “Maybe,” the doctor says, “but I wouldn’t count on it.” THE ALPHABET “How much did you study to be my teacher?” a toddler asks. “I studied B.A,” the teacher says. “What?” the toddler exclaims. “Only two letters of the alphabet and not even in the right order!” PARENTHOOD New parents: feeding and dressing your toddler isn’t as easy a skill as it looks. It takes a lot of practice, so here are a couple of tips to get you started. To practise dressing a small child, you need to first get a string bag (like the kind you carry soccer balls in). Then go…