Reflections on a year without TV
Truth be told it wasn’t actually planned that we would give up our TV viewing a year ago. It happened when we moved house and left our outdated TV set behind with a view...
Category: General
Three scatter cushions for $8000
It’s been a few weeks since we blogged on Wilkinson’s World and that’s because Rob and I are renovating our home at the moment. It’s certainly taking up all our spare time, but in...
A short drive from Purros
Looking at a map of Namibia can be deceptive for the inexperienced. Even downright misleading. If you look in the north west of the country, in Kaokoland, for example, you will see a little...
Mating Lions
The photographs of animals and birds that are posted on our web site are invariably taken “in the wild” and not in zoos or other places where the animals or birds are confined in...
Discovering the Beer Bird
Wilkinson’s World is a website mainly about birds, animals and our various trips. Forgive me if I stretch this a little today by introducing an amazing bird we discovered this Christmas. I’m talking here...
Cycling the Coast-to-Coast
On the 5th and 6th September, 2011 my brother Ken, my son Andrew and I cycled the Coast-to-Coast across northern England, starting at Whitehaven on the west coast and ending at Tynemouth on the...
Cycling the Coast-to-Coast
On the 5th and 6th September, 2011 my brother Ken, my son Andrew and I cycled the Coast-to-Coast across northern England, starting at Whitehaven on the west coast and ending at Tynemouth on the east coast....
Total Lunar Eclipse – 15 June 2011
During the early evening of 15 June 2011, Namibian time, the respective orbits of the sun, moon and earth carried them into an alignment, with the earth sandwiched between its closest celestial neighbours, such...
Oxpeckers – Heroes or villains?
It seems as though the jury is still out on whether the oxpecker is a hero or a villain. It is true that the oxpecker scavenges ticks off a wide variety of the larger...
The salt sellers of Cape Cross
Head northwards from Swakopmund on the west coast of Namibia, travelling along the well known “Skeleton Coast”, and after 100 km or so, as you approach Cape Cross, (home to a wonderful seal colony),...
The Ju/’hoansi Bushmen of Tsumkwe
We came across the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen at Graskop quite by chance. We’d been traveling on the C44 towards Tsumkwe when we were stopped at a veterinary check point. After exchanging pleasantries with the...
Southern carmine bee-eater
Carmine is the name of the red dye that was originally obtained from the cochineal beetle; described as the colour of tomatoes or rubies. Or blood. The name of a food dye used to...
The Bizarre Welwitschia
In June 2009 the Daily Telegraph in the UK ran a competition in their gardening section to find the “World’s Ugliest Plant”. The competition was won by the Corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) (no surprise...
WORLD CUP SOCCER 2010 – PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN
Soccer fever has hit South Africa with a vengeance and any description of the happy spirit prevailing in the country at the moment would be a gross understatement! It is absolutely staggering to see...
Only in Africa
There are some pretty elaborate irrigation schemes out in the world today, but we came across a rather ingenious and typically African one on a visit to a farm in Namibia recently. Namibians never...
Recent Comments