Crawling is the Journey
Just Jinjer (yes, it is the correct spelling) is a South African band. The front man for the band is Art Matthews. Now, as with so many other ginger front men (Mick Hucknall of Simply Red and UB42’s Duncan Campbell, come to mind), his appearance is, well ginger, and not exactly what one would expect. […]
Colin has been away for a few days. A new Cape Town based project, took him to Gauteng for a while. Some things just do not change. No matter how many people do the semigration, the business hub unfortunately may always be Gauteng. But you know what? Gauteng deserves it. They know how to get […]
Those of us that grew up in the 1980’s really had to live through and survive much. We truly had the best of everything. We are referred to as Gen X, cossetted on either side by the Baby Boomers and the Millennials. Apart from being the first generation to experience personal computers, we are also […]
Someone asked me to pop in for a chat today. Now that is something I can do very well. I am mostly quite keen to pop in, and always ready for a chat. So, pop in I did. After a bit of general small talk, we did eventually settle in and had a discussion around […]
The book of Ecclesiastes, which you will find in the Old Testament of the Bible, teaches that life is random and uncontrollable. So, how do we live well under these circumstances, the author of the book, asks of us? The actual word Ecclesiastes is a translation of the Hebrew word Koheleth, and that, I am […]
I have two choices here. I can either start with an attempt at explaining as to why I did not Cape Crawl last week. But no, it is not worth going down that road. Instead, I can warn you that this is going to be a multilingual installment. You see, last week I found myself […]
I was asked some time back: If life had taken you a different route, what would you rather be. I am one of those people who make light of most situations, so my flippant answer was that I would have loved to have been the widow of a very wealthy man. Which of course I […]
Isn’t it funny how one misses the things you are used to when you are no longer around them? Even the ones you do not like. Like viennas. Vienna sausages must surely be the most deliciously vile things you will ever come across. But ask a South African living abroad, and their shopping list will […]
Chris de Burgh always has been one of my favourite song mates. Apart from one song, which I will get to, there is probably not a song of his I do not like. It is not just his music. To me, it was that at a time when people were singing about Love Train and […]
A-ha, that oh so well know band from the 1980’s sang the song Crying in the Rain. It is a song about love-sickness. It is about finding a way to get over a breakup. I have been doing my fair share of crying in the rain this past week. No, I am not lovesick and […]