Mouth Ulcers – Kill or Cure!
Have you ever wondered what makes some human beings tick? I mean, what makes some people overflow with the milk of human kindness and others with the venom of a basketful of asps? I’m...
Category: Humour
The Whistling Rats of Rooiputs
In 1284, so the story goes, the town of Hamelin in Germany suffered a plague of rats. A little man dressed in a motley pied costume arrived in town and offered to rid Hamelin...
The deadly Peregrinatio cimex
Everyone is familiar with measles, mumps, rubella and the like. These are minor, mostly childhood infections that are well under medical control and no longer a real threat to anyone with reasonable access to...
A Namibian Christmas Tale
He was known throughout the bulbul kingdom of Khorixas as “The Godfather”. Wise beyond his years, he was the acknowledged guardian of the tribes folklore; he alone had access to the collective wisdom of...
Try camping – Rob’s response
Anyone who read the post “Try camping – it’s much cheaper” and thought that it was about camping and buying stuff for camping missed the point. It’s really about the differences in the way...
Try camping – it’s much cheaper
As you have no doubt gathered, Rob and I are inveterate travelers and will pack a suitcase at the drop of a hat. We’ve been privileged to visit many overseas countries (at great expense...
A trifle bizarre!
When you think back over your life, who are the folks that you remember most? It’s not the quiet peaceful guys that stand out in your mind but those unconventional people who did extraordinary things, drove...
Rastas Never Die
I’ve got a strong belief that what you focus on grows. The more thought you give to something, the more it pops up in your life. On a recent holiday I heard (what I...
Coming to one’s senses
Being a relatively healthy individual (touch wood, of course) I’m no pundit on medicines and how they work, but I have recently developed an interest in the phenomenon of the unconscious and deep sleep...
Bungy Jumping
BUNGY JUMPING – Gouritz River Bridge (Easter 2000) Some eight hundred kilometers to the west of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean lie a group of eighty-three islands collectively known as Vanautu or “the...
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