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Cute and cuddly. Part 2.
In my first cute and cuddly post, I promised that the creatures in part two would be bigger. And cooler. They will, but let’s start small, by revealing your hideous prejudices. Woodland dormice. This...
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A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
I have resolved to get the full benefit of the WordPress blogging experience. This means that every now and then, I will step out of my comfort zone and try a new type of post. So far, I have done a...
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Gulag Zen
My wife has a bit of a flair for the dramatic. Years of chronic drug abuse have left her emotionally unbalanced. This morning, I woke to find her standing fully clothed at the foot of the bed. “I”, she...
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Gourmet Cooking With 23thorns
I must confess to being a little taken aback. In my last post, I mentioned two minute noodles. Without any explanation. Sorry. I try to be careful about this. If I am using words or concepts that I...
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Jesus died, but now he lives. In Detroit. Sort of.
I was very young when my father discovered Jesus. He was walking around his garden, as was his wont, when he heard Jesus next door. He popped his head over the wall to ask the neighbour who he was...
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Where the hell I’ve been.
There is no such thing as a typical blog, just as there is no such thing as a typical book or a typical movie. There are all sorts of blogs out there. Photo blogs, rants, fashion blogs, food blogs,...
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That’s just not what we mean.
Elton John wrote a song called “Sorry seems to be the hardest word”. He wouldn’t fit in around here. I wrote a post the other day about apologies, and a rather curious thing started to happen. People...
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The romance of steam
We live in an ugly age. Almost everything is cheap and plastic and disposable. And we are cheap and plastic too. Don’t be fooled by the glossy pages of the fashion magazines. If you want to experience...
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PayPal on WordPress. The road to riches?
There are three different ways of approaching a project. My way, my wife’s way, and everybody else’s way. Let’s take painting a cupboard as an example. Here’s what everyone else seems to do; 1. Measure...
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A Bird in the Bush. Part 1.
I’ve never been a conspiracy theorist. If there really is a secret cabal running the affairs of the world, like the Bilderberg group, the Rosicrucians, or the Illuminati, they are so obviously...
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The Easter Bunny has ruined my life.
My wife claims to remember being three. So did my father. I can’t even remember much about being twenty. But there is a vast difference between remembering a place or an incident, and remembering how...
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A blogging challenge.
I haven’t posted anything for a while. I’m not sorry. You see, I have been much too busy. I went for a swim. Here. My mother took the whole family (Nine adults and nine children) for a holiday in the...
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1. Our hotline to the ancestors.
I’m writing a blog a day for 100 days. It’s day 1. It’s not going well. I can’t focus. Every time I start to type, my concentration is broken. It’s not that I’m not committed to the task, nor am I...
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2. Johannesburg traffic is a circus.
I nearly got involved in a fender-bender the other day. I was driving down a busy, three-lane road in town, and glanced down for a second. Mistake. I looked up to see that, to my horror, I was about to...
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3. Behold! Bananas and coconuts!
I wasn’t sure what to write about today. I’m not out of ideas; it’s just that the kids are at home. Focus is a rare commodity when you’re at the beck and call of a hungry eight-year-old and a bored...
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4. The Hiiills are alive……
There’s a hole in my soul where “The Sound of Music” is supposed to go. I’ve never seen it. It doesn’t bother me. It’s not like I’ve lost a limb or anything. I just lack something that seems to unite...
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5. An Irishman, a witch doctor, and a phrenologist walk into a bar….
When I was younger, my father told me about how, in his youth, a DJ had, on air, explained how to catch a polar bear. Here’s how it’s done; Find a frozen lake, and cut a hole in the ice. Take a packet...
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6.Hitchcock might have been on to something!
One of my fondest childhood memories is watching my younger cousin get attacked by a chicken. We were visiting his parent’s holiday house when we fell foul of the local rooster, a feathery behemoth...
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8. I think my blog is possessed!
Something odd happened yesterday. It was a busy weekend. Some of the battered remnants of the South African book trade got together for a lunchtime party on Saturday. It was fun. The sort of fun that...
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9. Smile and wave.
Once in a while, every two or three months, I turn into the sort of person other people don’t want to make eye contact with. But by the time they realise this, it’s too late. You see, I wave at cars....
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