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Dear friends, if any of you are ever tempted to sail in one of these monstrosities, get yourself a decent bottle, do a bit of thinking and then tell yourself …
Before I used the internet I searched the encyclopaedia Britannica when I was stumped for some information and most of the time I found what I looked for although my …
One of my faithful readers, Gerhard, sent me a story that, to my mind, ought to be widely known. When the limeys kicked out Winston Churchill, once WW2 was finished, …
Lets have a few bits of South Africa this time, where I live it’s hot enough for that right now, 40°C. It is a bit of a hazardous undertaking in …
Fécamp is an old harbour town in France just north of Le Havre. Until WW2 dozens of fine 3-masted sailing vessels sailed from there to catch cod on the Grand …
My quest for ‘good’ stories is not very successful and as I’m not in the business of writing about personal success stories I’m still pleased to tell you that the …
My friend Johann, who followed the teachings of my wee book ‘WineTime’ and, consequently, now makes a very nice wine on his farm Keisseskraal near Botriver, Cape, asked me for …
It’s not that the rainforest is haunting my dreams but since I mentioned it, I keep on receiving more information on ways and means Not to save it. In The …
Things have been happening in my favourite adopted country, South Africa. In Durban, the people occupied with global warming spent a fair amount of money on palavers that didn’t reduce …
In my last blog I told you about all that rain forest wood carelessly dumped on the banks of the river Loire in France. Micheline asked me a few …
