EARWIG, CAREFUL HOW YOU GO!
cindyphillips “There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin’…
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ROTTERDAM IS ANYWHERE ALONE
Aesop’s Fables, The World’s Best Known Collection Of Morality Tales (circa 260 BC), provides the first instance of the caution ‘Be careful what you wish for’. I thought of this…
GRUDGES
Are you holding a grudge? About? I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did…
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
Have you thought about what kind of “senior living community” you want to die in? Godawful phrase that, innit, Senior Living? For most of my peers it is a perpetual…
EFFUSIVELY AFFLUENT FROM FRIENDSHIPS
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin…
MUSIC TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS BY?
It’s the anniversary of the death of Mahler. I’ve been ferreting out bits about his miserable messy life this week, because of Gropius, but I mustn’t digress to architecture here.…
Friday Book Review. DOG HOTEL
(Children’s Fiction) The other day I visited a real-life Dog Hotel built alongside the beautifully hidden ancient ruins of a Settler farmhouse in my village. I often stop there in…
COFFEE WITH A SOBER BUTCHER
The invaluable Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany references booze on almost every page, but – astonishingly – has only a handful of mentions of coffee! More surprising for a gourmet’s…
KING HINTSA’S EARS, AND THE KEI MOUTH RONDAVELS WHERE LOUIS TRICHARDT PROBABLY PLANTED THE FIRST WEED.
KING HINTSA’S EARS, AND THE KEI MOUTH RONDAVELS WHERE LOUIS TRICHARDT PROBABLY PLANTED THE FIRST WEED. A friend asked me yesterday, in response to my claim to often reading the…
THE MOST CALLOUS ACT IN THE HISTORY OF EMPIRE
Continued, Please click here to read Part One. This article is largely extracted from the text of the late Tessa King’s address to the West Rand GSSA in 2005. The…