Lawrence Green: Tavern of the Seas Own Image Own Image This was Lawrence Green's third book and today it is viewed as a valuable addition to South African literature. Being Born as I was under the shadow

As South Africa enters a very uncertain phase in her history, the relevance of "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin" should be obvious. When live on a continent where uncertainty is

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. —Albert Einstein Image Source

Very often I am asked by friends who know of my interest in the UFO phenomena, “Why do you believe in the reality of UFO’s?” I usually try and answer them to the best of my ability. UFO’s don’t automatically

The debate on nature or nurture has been going on for many years. Every decade or so the popularity of one idea or the other gains favour then is replaced by a new idea from the other camp. Own image This

Sowing the Wind – Shirley van Zyl. Copyright 1986. Published by Hooome & De Villiers CC Own image Sowing the wind gives an insightful look into the second Boer war 1899-1902. It describes the concentration

The Coburgs of Belgium – Theo Aronson – Hardcover with Wrapper – First Edition 1969. Own Image Own Image In 1830 after a successful rebellion against the Dutch, Belgium gained her independence. The country

Book Collecting – Looking at Bindings The first thing we see when we pick up a book is the jacket (if it has one) but soon we look under the jacket and look at the binding. Image Source The dust jacket

Yesterday evening I heard a familiar call from my lounge, " Peter there is something crawling on the floor." From experience this could be almost anything, from a snake to a large beetle. This

One of my hobbies is building castles, various medieval buildings, and the odd bit of siege equipment. Living in a small flat, I don't have much of a storage area and if you have been following my blog

I came across an article recently about music and the emotional response it elicits in different people. When I listen to certain types of music or see a particularly talented performer on stage, very

A video introduction to part of my book collection. Since I have been doing a fair amount of writing about books over the last six months or so, I thought some of you may be interested to see something

Caring for your books Following on my first article on book collecting here is some practical advice. The first step in caring for your books is to keep them out of the sun. Sun is an enemy of books; it

My wife and I live in a ground floor flat with my daughter @onetree. As she has mentioned before we live on the edge of town and beyond us there are no further houses only farm land. Own Picture It is

Book Collecting for fun and profit Here I am once again apologising to myself mainly for being really bad at keeping to a schedule. I have no excuses so on with my next post. Image Source Being an online

The year so far has gotten off to busy start. I started the year with good intentions, not New Year’s resolutions; I gave that up years ago. One of the things that were right on top of my list was more

Just finished watching the successful launch of of the Falcon 9 carrying the ZUMA space mission. The payload is a highly secret military satellite built by Northrop Grumman. This is the first launch this

At the end of January SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon Heavy. After many delays, Elon Musk himself admitted that building Falcon Heavy was much harder than anyone imagined, it now seems as though the

Don't we all wish that we could have our lives over? How carefree life was. I would turn seven in 1954 and memories from that time are clearer. Our house I remember, had a small step from the back door