A while back, my wife and I were having drinks with a good friend when she impulsively took a small bet. If she won, she’d get to dress both of us for the New Year's Eve party at the Island Pub. If she lost, the bet would apply in reverse. Naturally, we couldn’t resist. The problem? I can’t, for the life of me, remember what the bet was about. But I do remember that my wife lost. And with New Year's still months away, she...

A night alone together with my partner was long overdo...it has beeh weeks since the las time we had the luxury of evening of bliss and temptation....While he was in the kitchen on the phone ordering the pizza, I was hanging scarves over bedside lamps and laying out our toy collection for a evening of absoloute pleasure and seduction! As he came walking down the passage I lit the handrolled inscense stick from an exotic l...

We have good friends who regularly travel, and we have the pleasure of house-sitting. The house is nestled away in the Franschhoek mountains… a lovely thatch house with fireplaces, naturally, and surrounded by great wine farms as far as the eye can see. What a burden to go and house sit, isn’t it…? Anyway, this was a few weeks back and we had the pleasure of the house for two weeks. Naturally, my mind went into overdrive,...