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Click
The click I am referring to is not the sound this rather poor attempt English makes at onomatopoeia. It is the sound made when the isiXhosa word qongqothwane is correctly pronounced. Listen carefully...
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Books, Art, Cakes and Kindles
I am a book-lover. What other reason would there be for ogling the Kindle advertisement? As a child I used to spend a good part of my Saturday mornings browsing in the second-hand book exchange above...
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Rude comments collection
The most delightful public scultpure I have encountered is on a roundabout as one approaches Faro airport. It consists of an assemblage of slightly larger than life figures in various postures all...
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Buckets of colour
I have never categorically admitted to having a bucket list. One item on that bucket list is quite complicated really. It involves mural art. I am not an artist in the professional sense of the word,...
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Living in the now
Yay! Today is Savage Chickens day – in my world, anyway. In tribute to this excellent cartoonist who manages to fit drawings and words onto a yellow Post-it®, I slavishly follow Doug Savage’s copyright...
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Savage talk and TED
Yay! Today is Savage Chickens day! In tribute to this excellent cartoonist who manages to fit drawings and words onto a yellow Post-it®, I slavishly follow Doug Savage’s copyright rules which state...
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The greatest gift
As a teenager I had a friend whose entire sex education talk received from her father (since her mother preferred to give the impression that she never engaged in such nonsense) encompassed one...
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Drawing from life
Some people complain on Facebook about how their housemates do not clean the bathroom. One friend describes it in such graphic detail that I am compelled to remark that what she probably needs to...
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FlumMoxed
Of course, “flum” does not mean anything, but quite a few of us have been “Moxed”. The purpose of this post is to get as many people Moxed as possible. The next mass Moxing will occur at the...
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Coffee with Adam and God
I have never been to the Sistine Chapel, so have never seen The Creation of Adam in real life: I know that posters are printed of the hands of God and Adam with their fingers almost touching. I know...
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Scatterling, the book
A potted story of me so far As memoirs go, mine are intentionally short. They are composed of 45 stories. Each story is around 150 words long and has a cartoon drawing to go with it. This is about the...
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Scatterling—portrait of the Labradors as young puppies
Filed under: General chatter, Self-publications Tagged: a potted story of me so far, artist, artists, books, cartoons, comic autobiography, comic book life, comic life, illustrated biography,...
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The Scatterling series – 1
I am going to be very busy during the next four months editing a translation of a very long biography. I anticipate that this will leave me little time to blog. I have decided that the easiest way of...
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The Scatterling series – 2 & 3
Self-restraint. That was one word I plugged into the last batch of editing I have just completed. How apt! You see, I have been itching to blog, but managed to keep a lid on it until I had finished a...
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The Scatterling series – 4 & 5
The process of completion of my tax return and what I found to be a demanding online course within a few short days has led me to make some unusual correlations with regarding to the next two stories...
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The Scatterling series – 6 & 7
Another mini-break in my big editing job. The wave of early evening heat makes me conscious once again that I never made it to the shower today. I arose shortly after sunrise, eager to take advantage...
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The Scatterling series – 8, 9 & 10
After an intense week or more of work during which I managed to ignore the deleterious effects of perspiration for much longer than is either desirable or healthy, I decided yesterday that I had to...
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The Scatterling series – 11, 12, 13 & 14
Mid-way through my summer editing job, I am finally able to see the sense of the book. This augurs well for the planned final read through in a couple of weeks’ time. Time is precious. I feel as if I...
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