Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times

Sue de Groot is a writer with a special interest in words, books, people, hedgehogs, cricket and the universe; a former scriptwriter for various drama series; and the winner of some awards. Currently completing a master's degree in applied ethics through Wits University's philosophy department.

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | Would you like your eggs good, bad or silly?

When I was a child, it was common for adults to call someone an egg when they had done something ridiculous, writes Sue de Groot

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | Snail lovers and words spiralling out of meaning

It is difficult to imagine being completely cut off without any way of contacting the outside world, writes Sue de Groot

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | Use your noodle and deal with the nurdles

The admirable environmental NPO Litter4Tokens has urgently called for “government action to address an alarming increase in nurdles on the South ...

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | It's so utterly OTT it's criminal

My colleague Hogarth and I both seem to find an endless well of inspiration in the many daily communications put out by the Hawks. Incidentally, if ...

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | You know, like, it’s just a solar probe, yaow

The solar probe is in fact a pretty big deal. Let’s hope Aditya-L1 was thoroughly sanitised before it left, writes Sue de Groot.

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | He who throws a tantrum loses it

Losing your temper while throwing a tantrum is one of the risks of intemperance, writes Sue de Groot

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | Getting shot of moonshine is not loony

There was a new moon cowering in the twilight sky on Friday night, like a tiny fingernail clipping. It was peeping out from the clouds and trying not ...

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | Don't you just hate 'pre-loved' clothes?

“Pre-loved” is probably one of the worst euphemisms to have entered the English language in the last decade or so, writes Sue de Groot

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
SUE DE GROOT | This war room is driving me potty

On Monday, the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) launched the Vala Zonke War Room. “Vala Zonke” has various interpretations roughly ...

Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times
In a Barbie world: She may be plastic, but she can pink for herself

This column is a departure from the body of words to the body of Barbie, or rather the body of myths, misconceptions and maleficence that has grown ...