The two injured swans I blogged about yesterday have been captured by the combined efforts of the USPCA and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service. See here. Thank goodness. Hopefully they’ll now get the medical care they need. And I hope they’ll recover fully from their ordeal and that they’ll soon be paddling along…
… what human beings are capable of doing to animals. I’ve just read a heart-breaking story on the BBC’s Northern Ireland website about a pair of mute swans on the Lagan Canal near Lisburn that were shot with crossbows. Apparently, the female has a crossbow bolt stuck through her neck, while her mate has one…
Last week Tuesday, I posted about the brutal murder of an ex-colleague of mine, Noorjehan. I’ve been keeping an eye on the newspapers, and regularly searching the internet in the vain hope that more information had surfaced in the meantime. After the two initial articles I mentioned (Mom’s body found in bushes and Ma van…
My cousin has just told me a most disturbing story of promises broken and trust betrayed that I want to share with you because it ruffled my tailfeathers too. Sometime at the beginning of this year, a gentleman by the name of Ari Seirlis was asked by the Independent Democrats to stand as a candidate…
It is a sad indictment of the priorities of our ANC led government that they have, once again, allowed money to overrule morality. The history of our country – one of the richest and most beautiful on the African continent – has not been a happy one. Since the bad old days of colonialism, it’s…
Every year in February, the Remember And Give (RAG) team at the University of Cape Town publishes an irreverent, funny, satirical – and sometimes offensive – magazine known as Sax Appeal in order to raise funds for the Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation (SHAWCO), which does truly amazing and inspirational work in very difficult…
On Saturday, 28 March 2009, at 20h30, lights will be turned off throughout the world for an hour. The big switch-off is part of the annual Earth Hour campaign of the Worldwide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The campaign was initiated in Australia a mere two years ago, when 2.2 million people in Sydney…
Grains of Sand 