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Christmas cards over the years.

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Posted 12 years ago

Getting or giving a Kindle for Christmas ?

When you meet somebody for the first time you assume they are the person they say they are ….. The Man With Green Fingers is set in the expatriate community in Cyprus.  Murder, mystery, intrigue ….. and a powdering of love. Available in paperback on Amazon and on Kindle.  THE MAN WITH GREEN FINGERS by […]

Posted 12 years ago

Women don’t wear petticoats any more.

Women don’t wear petticoats any more. It’s OK if your knickers show.  In fact, it has been the fashion of boys to show their underpants – how utterly ridiculous.  How revolting.  How often I have been so sooo tempted to give a boy’s jeans a tug to see if they fall down totally. And it […]

Posted 12 years ago

Christmas cards

I thoroughly approve of Christmas cards for charities, particularly for charities in our own countries (see previous blog about the importance of not giving aid to Africa), but I have always done my own or – when the children were little – got them to do it. I see this one (which is in fact […]

Posted 12 years ago

Meniere’s Disease – the story continues …

My poor love, who only two days ago was well enough to walk round the shops and buy me these flowers, is in bed with yet another Meniere’s attack.  At least he is in bed.  If he is in a chair he sometimes has to let himself drop to the ground where, he says, he […]

Posted 12 years ago

Ella-Jane, South Africa. Childhood memories.

“Travels with a Biro” Alice, where I was born, was nothing – but NOTHING – like the nice little town of my childhood.  It broke my heart.  My brother suggested we don’t look at our old house – we knew well in advance that the run-down and dirty dwelling that was sure to greet us […]

Posted 12 years ago

Mother rhino and her baby

“Travels with a Biro”  One of the places we stayed was called Mbongo Safari Park.  It was one of the best places we stayed in, with excellent accommodation and a wonderful restaurant. (The restaurants in the Kruger were very basic – fine for a quick meal, but we do like to sip our wine and […]

Posted 12 years ago

Giraffes, South Africa.

“Travels with a Biro” I tried and tried to draw a giraffe but each time it looked most odd.  They are an odd shape, so perhaps my drawings looked odder than they really were.  Also I just can’t be doing with all those patches. They make me impatient. A few facts about giraffes:- – they […]

Posted 12 years ago

Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Summer was only just starting, so things were green and lush.  The advantage of this is that you see a lot of wild flowers and the most exquisite birds (I sketched quite a lot of birds), and the vistas are splendid – there is nothing, truly nothing, quite as wonderful as sitting with a glass […]

Posted 12 years ago

Hippos.

“Travels with a Biro” I found it difficult to get a full hippo, as it were, because they just popped their heads up out of the water for a few moments, and then went down again. Sometimes one would disappear under the water and then re-appear totally elsewhere.  They are such lumpy animals, you’d never […]

Posted 12 years ago

Books now available on Amazon:

A Call From France
French Sand
Kefani: An African Childhood
The Man With Green Fingers
Saying Nothing