Category: Water (Personal)

After my recent not too flattering post about the three main parties (the Cape Town municipal elections, and the ANC, DA and ID reviewed), I’ve been invited to meet Simon Grindrod, the ID’s candidate. So, if anyone has anything they’re dying to ask him, please post a comment, or mail me, and I’ll be sure… Continue reading A meeting with the Independent Democrat’s Simon Grindrod

I came across an interesting experiment in falsifying credit card signatures. I think I go one better. I haven’t even signed mine. The only company who ever noticed were Hi-fi corporation. So I signed it on the spot, and made off with my purchase. That was near the end of the card’s life, and my… Continue reading Credit Card Signatures

Woke up this morning to the most harrowing screams from my son. We couldn’t figure out what was wrong until we saw this on him. Scorpion stings can be quite serious, so he was promptly rushed off to the hospital. Hopefully it will be as serious as last time (lots of blood, but the tiniest… Continue reading Scorpio rising

It’s fire season, and the arsonists and smokers are out in force. The mountains around Cape Town are experiencing multiple fires every day now. There’ve been days of smoke, but today, from my window, I can see a fire raging on the slopes of Signal Hill. Pity my camera is so crap (or is that… Continue reading Cape Town burning

Sometimes I have to laugh at myself for fitting the cliches so well. Without getting into whether I’m actually a flighty Gemini or a bull-headed Taurus, or whether its all a bunch of bollocks, I clearly fit the image of someone with 101 interests, and who gets bored if I’m stuck on one thing too… Continue reading The archetypal Gemini

I have many CD’s. If I had to listen to them all, one after the other, it’d probably take me months to listen to any of them twice. I can see why some old people get stuck in their musical ways – they just have so much of their own familiar music to listen to… Continue reading Music, aging and 101 reasons for a Black Celebration

I’m finally settling into my new home. It has the most stunning views over the city, harbour and mountains behind. The pictures of course don’t do it justice. And Cape Town in the summer has that energy to it, the city gets full, and the mountains call… Being within walking distance of Table Mountain is… Continue reading Pictures of my new home

I hate getting sick. Not for the obvious reason – in fact physically sometimes its quite pleasant to have an opportunity to spend some time horizontally looking at the roof, or just lying on the couch reading. Rather, it’s the mental torture I put myself through. I’m doing all sorts of things that are supposed… Continue reading Aches and pains

Bar the signature, it’s almost confirmed that I’ll be moving back to Observatory. I lived in Observatory between 1997 and 2000, and the street I’m renting in is only one street from where I lived then. I’ve lived in Capri since 2000 – it’s a great house, on the edge of a nature reserve, lots… Continue reading Circles

I had fun this evening at a poetry reading at A Touch of Madness, in Observatory, Cape Town. The celebrity poet was Jeremy Cronin, who read, amngst others, a long poem about Basil ‘Manenburg’ Coetzee’s left shoulder (Jeremy Cronin is more well-known as the Deputy Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, so the… Continue reading Poetry readings at Touch of Madness