Crawling is the Journey
Herman Charles Bosman, one of my absolute favourite authors, wrote stories based on a character called Oom Schalk Lourens. Mr. Bosman (the author) was sent to the Marico district as a teacher back in 1926. His character, Oom Schalk on the other hand, was a farmer and he originally came from what was then the […]
“I am what I am I don’t want praise I don’t want pity I bang my own drum Some think it’s noise I think It’s pretty” Gloria Gaynor belted out these lyrics. The song was released in 1984, but I only truly discovered it in 1987. This was at a time when I felt that […]
I came upon a provocative headline today on News 24. One of those that made me sit and think. I was unable to read the article, as I am not a subscriber, but the heading was enough to get my cogs turning. It simply said: Our collective resilience will get us up tomorrow, but today […]
Traditional “hard” ice cream has been around since the 1600’s. Soft serve was only invented as recently as 1938, by a chap with a good Scottish name: McCullough & Son. A few interesting trivia about soft serve is that 70% of people prefer it to hard ice cream. It takes around 50 licks to eat […]
