Taking the adventure Aslan sends
‘I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.’ Sylvia Plath – … More Post-Christmas 2023
‘May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.’ Anon I once had a group of eight-year-olds ask me if we had elephants in our garden in South Africa. It’s amazing which images persist and what impressions stick. I could have told them that Cape Town is actually a very … More Christmas Contrasts
Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings – Joyce Meyer (American author & speaker) The reviews are in, the blog tour is over and now it’s just a question of two online book launches before Charlie Peach’s Pumpkins and other stories is truly out there in the big, wide world. I’m really looking … More Counting Down
‘An unreviewed book is a struck bell that gives no resonance… Reviewing makes reading a participant sport, not a spectator sport.’ Patricia Hampl – American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. Last month I celebrated the birth, or arrival, of my new book baby: Charlie Peach’s Pumpkins and other stories. While I recognise that my followers … More Time to Face the Music
It’s been a long nine months, but we’re all doing well. #bookbaby … More A new book baby
I lift up my eyes to the mountains – where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 I’ve been fortunate to be able to see the local Helderberg mountains this week, here in the Western Cape. There have been days when the lingering wet winter … More Keep looking up
“I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport.” – Amy Johnson – first woman to fly solo from London to Australia I used to think that air travel was incredibly glamorous. My dad sometimes had to travel to various … More up, tiddly up, up
The biggest redwood… in the world is the General Sherman… almost 2,000 years old. … More giants of the forest
‘…we still haven’t seen any bears …’ … More O Canada
… the first blackberries are appearing… many of them are fatter and juicier than ever. … More where the wild things are
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