Hey! I’m sitting here working at The Lighthouse Restaurant in the Point Hotel, Mossel Bay – and there’s a whale just outside! Tried to take a pic, but my lens is too small – but maybe you can see it in this one (although – nah, maybe not!) – but go and check the hotel [...]

 Winnie Mandela A Life by Anne Marie Bezdrob I’ve recently read Nelson Mandela’s remarkable Long Walk to Freedom, George Bizos’ autobiography and Desmond Tutu’s story (Rabble Rouser for Peace)  – but I think none of them sensitised me to what happened in South Africa between 1948 and 1994  as much as this book did. Perhaps [...]

Discovering Web 2-Point-Oh 101: A Grey-beard’s Adventure in On-line Marketing Wanted – Five Good Men & True (This Is An Equal-opportunity Offer) Web 2-Point-Oh – I love it. It’s all about sharing and that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Trouble is, a lot of the time my warm comes from my raised blood [...]

    A Complete Guide To The Snakes Of Southern Africa by Johan Marais The second edition of this essential guide has been updated, revised and expanded to include 11 newly-discovered and 30 re-classified species and sub-species, with new information on behaviour, identification, reproduction and snake venoms. More of a library reference than a field [...]

  Newman’s Birds of Southern Africa by Kenneth Newman The South African classic, now revised and updated according to the latest research- which has resulted in the addition of 46 new species. The colour-coded pages make for easy group identification – and I reckon has done heaps for making this one of the most favoured [...]