Last week, we had Lesson 5 of our Beginners’ Painting Course at the Pinelands High School. In the previous lesson, Lesson 4, we had done some sketches for a landscape painting on the theme of a tree. She had asked us to bring some photos that we could use as inspiration, but cautioned that she…
I was thinking a bit today about the inspirational talks I’ve been lucky to listen to over the last year. In February last year, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens offered a series of star walks, in which visitors were allowed into the Gardens in the evening and taught a little bit about astronomy. We were fortunate to…
Tonight, we attended a public lecture by Prof Malcolm Longair (a very eminent British astronomer and cosmologist) (he even has his own Wikipedia entry) at the MTN Sciencentre at Canal Walk. It was the first time I’d been inside the Sciencentre, although we’d probably walked past it dozens of times. It was fantastic that the…
Grains of Sand 