If you ask my family, they will confirm that I was a “Leseratte” (a German word translated directly as ‘reading rat’, but meaning the equivalent of ‘bookworm’, which sounds much better) when I was little. I always had my nose buried in a book, or two, or more. This hasn’t changed much, although nowadays it…
… is coming along nicely, thank you. 🙂 In the week before Easter, Richard’s sister Tanya flew down from Windhoek (Namibia) to stay with us for a couple of weeks. Needing a bit of a holiday ourselves, we headed off into the wilds of the Garden Route with her and had a totally wonderful time…
I have just returned from the offices of Salty Print in Salt River, where I handed over the PDF of Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides: An adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route to Ian for final origination and layout. They’ll now prepare a proof for me so that I can double-check that I am…
Today was an exciting day. Today was the day I collected 50 shiny new copies of my very first REAL book, Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides*: An adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route, from the printers – appropriately named The Printing Press – in Little Mowbray this afternoon. They came out beautifully. Look: I…
This morning, with fear-induced nausea in the depths of my stomach, I delivered the PDF of my very first REAL book, Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides: An Adventurous Weekend on the Garden Route, to the printers in Little Mowbray. I’d spent most of Sunday afternoon, evening and night frantically re-reading the document and tweaking…
It has been faaaar too long since my last post, and if you’re a regular reader, you’re probably wondering whether I’ve given up blogging. Never fear, I haven’t. What I have been doing is putting the finishing touches to my book. My very first REAL book! There have been a number of home-printed books, mostly…
Grains of Sand 