Blog : Brett Fish

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 and laughing at it in the other room and so we just jumped on the banned wagon and helped spread [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-20T09:21:53+02:00May 20th, 2015|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, fun, silly things|0 Comments

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 sniff* I feel so left out! (kidding, I’ll be fine ;) But seriously, I do appreciate your response to the [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-19T13:32:53+02:00May 19th, 2015|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|4 Comments

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 love. I guess that’s the first thing I’ve learnt about cancer. It doesn’t discriminate. It will attack rich or poor, [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-19T09:37:44+02:00May 19th, 2015|pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

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 of 'Bob' and invited a few of my friends to respond, all of which you can catch up with over [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-18T11:20:33+02:00May 18th, 2015|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|8 Comments

10 Books [besides 50 Shades of Grey] that should be sold alongside mine.

and other animals., humour'ish

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 me, was that alongside my book in a if-you-buy-this-you-should-probably-also-buy-this kind of way was 'Fifty Shades of Grey', the erotic romance [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-15T14:15:13+02:00May 15th, 2015|and other animals., humour'ish|0 Comments

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 and mostly looked after old people or University professors, who were about equally competent] so that i could join Youth [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-15T10:40:55+02:00May 15th, 2015|and other animals., humour'ish|0 Comments

Some thoughts from Spaghetti conversations [with Portal Pete]

Another guest on Friday was our mate Portal Pete who has moved with his wife, Sarah, into Manenberg and is running a drug rehabilitation program among other things, and he had these words to say: Great food etc. It didn’t feel awkward to me. It felt OK. Living and working in what some call missional community in Manenberg, I feel and cause offence on a fairly regular basis. We’re learning that offence most often leads [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-15T07:43:07+02:00May 15th, 2015|challenging thorts, change the world, friends and enemas, local news, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

The Lemon Tree and Blood Brothers: Intro

i just finished reading this incredible book that was recommended to me by my good friend, Steve Graybill, who has travelled to Israel on multiple occasions and i feel has a fairly good idea of what goes on over there. i was challenged on my blog a few months ago about not knowing what was going on with the whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict and it was totally true. It's one of those things, as when i was [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-14T17:19:26+02:00May 14th, 2015|pain and Hope, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Some thoughts from Spaghetti conversations [with Val ‘tbV’ Anderson]

My lovely wife Val was of course the hostess for Friday's dinner and deep dive into Race, Boundary and Location conversation that i wrote about over here, and she shares some of her thoughts from the evening: The idea is simple: gather good people around good food and good discussion and see what happens. So we did. We turned off technology and tuned in to people. It was messy and it was chaotic, it was painful and it [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-14T08:00:17+02:00May 14th, 2015|friends and enemas, inspire-ations, local news, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|18 Comments

Tandem Post: Tonight you’re mine, completely

i am loving being a part of this Tandem Blogging series with 8 other very creative and very different individuals. There is the dual satisfaction of having a very focused piece to write on a topic i didn't choose [which is incredible for creativity] and then also the thrill of bouncing from post to post once we've released them, to see how differently each writer interpreted the title each week. Last week was my favourite [...]