In September, Lisa at Notes from Africa started a new series on her wonderful blog, called “Caption This” (Gallery of Winning Captions). She posts a photo of animals in the bush, and you have a week or two to come up with a humorous caption: “When you spend time watching animals and birds in the…
After I’d written that blog post about the arrival of the RFI-shielded containers at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in Observatory on 06 May, I was asked by the SKA’s media department whether I would be willing to attend the informal function at the SAAO on Friday 29 May to celebrate the arrival of…
Yesterday, I had been so excited at crossing the 10,000 page view threshold and reaching 10,024. So it gave me quite a turn when I saw my total reflected as 9,898 hits a few minutes ago! Here is the new monthly summary: Months and Years Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct…
In January this year, I crossed the 3,000 page views threshold on this blog (see post). Today, I am thrilled to say, that I have crossed the 10,000 page views threshold! So I would like to thank every single one of my regular readers, as well as all those who occasionally pop in for a…
I picked up 200 brand-new copies of Gold Mines, Elephants and Foefie Slides from Saltyprint in Salt River on Friday. They look really good. So now’s a good time to place your orders! 😉 If you would like to obtain a copy of the book, I am selling it at R100.00 a copy (excl. postage).…
I don’t know where this comes from, but I think it’s brilliant. “ODE TO MY SPELL CHEQUER Eye have a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather…
… 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…
Well, THAT was pretty nifty! I’m particularly delighted that the photo came out, although when I click on it, it doesn’t open like my photos usually do. And it doesn’t have a caption, and it didn’t retain the name I’d originally given it on my hard drive. But those are minor things. Maybe there’s even…
A couple of days ago, WordPress surprised us with the creation of a new feature: posting by email (see their support page). I duly followed the steps to enable post-by-email and obtained a special email address to which my posts must be sent. They promise: “You can send email from any email client, whether in…
We (Richard, his sister Tanya, and yours truly) returned late on Saturday night from an exciting, adventure-filled, glorious-weather-blessed week on the Garden Route. We stayed at the Homtini Guest Farm just outside the little village of Rheenendal in the mountains above Knysna; toured an abandoned gold mine in the mountains of Millwood; hiked along Jubilee…
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 