Crawling is the Journey
Three years ago, when our journey started, Colin and I set out to build OUR house. What do you have in mind, Colin asked. Now, that coming from Colin is a bit of a loaded question. Like really? How am I supposed to know what can be built on an impossible mountain erf with no […]
Do any of you remember Glenda Kemp? She was that Boeremeisie, turned Vixen, who dared to remove not only her bikini top, but also the bikini bottom – ever so inappropriately, and then to add shock to horror, she danced with ‘n Luislang (Python), draped around her neck. Shame, poor Glenda. As a young girl […]
The number three. If you were to ask Aunty Google about this number, she will tell you that three is a natural number that comes after two, and before four. I sometimes wonder if some clever person out there is getting paid for telling us things that we all know. Really. It comes after two? […]
What does Bartholomew Dias, John ll of Portugal and the Khoisan have in common? Keep reading and you will find out. The Cape of Storms. That is what Bartholomew Dias named the Cape in 1488. Later, John ll of Portugal named it the Cape of Good Hope. Long before either of these explorers ever set […]
Because it is an exceptionally long story, even for someone that likes telling stories, I am not going to be telling you all the story that resulted in the number 117. I will give it to you briefly, though. Some years ago, Colin and I attended a course, and as part of it, we had […]
Sometimes, I will ask someone for a topic for my blog. You know, a casual what would you like to read about? More often, I get given an idea with which I can work. Today was such a day. My friend started off by sharing that her children were doing a coastal hiking trial over […]
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. This quote by Shakespeare (who I will get back to later, that being Shakespeare, not the quote), apparently has important meaning which applies to everyday life of all humans. The quote translates into a name is just a label to distinguish one thing from another […]
Charles Dickens starts off A Tale of Two Cities, by saying it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The Tremeloes, after very many La La La La’s tell us that even the bad times are good. And I agree, we are currently experiencing the best of times, and the worst […]
Benjamin Eisenstadt first came up with the idea of packing sugar into small disposable packets. Apparently, one day, while having tea with his wife at a cafeteria, this idea came to him, as he became annoyed at the idea of the sugar dispenser’s hole getting clogged up. Sadly, he never patented his idea, and it […]
You make my heart sing! You make everything groovy. Wild thing! Ok, you ask, what happened? Let me tell you. Driving along the other day, Colin was saying that I really need to stop writing so much about sheep and cattle. Do you want people to believe that we live rather rural? That we are […]