Blog : Brett Fish

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 and so hopefully we have moved on a lot from then. What is a far less serious misfortune is that very [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-22T09:57:12+02:00May 22nd, 2015|activities, and other animals., fun, humour'ish, silly things, top 10 List|0 Comments

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 South Africa, becomes a picture of what the past means to different people and how it affects how we live [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-21T07:17:12+02:00May 21st, 2015|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, inspire-ations, things to wrestle with|0 Comments

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 - Richard Snell - to be my guy. But to me it was this weird, alien confusing beast that kept getting [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-20T14:00:00+02:00May 20th, 2015|sport and games, tandem blog post|0 Comments

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 [...]