The past few days in Pretoria have been rainy, not the torrential rain that has plagued the Western Cape and caused such disruption, but good rain has fallen nevertheless. As always, such rain brings new life to a garden, new leaves and flowers and insects. Our small...
“There is nothing – absolutely NOTHING – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” From Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows One of my favourite books as a young child was The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. My father...
The two photos accompanying this article are of McGregor men in my line of descent; from my great-grandfather to my son they span five generations which stretch from 1829, the year of my great-grandfather’s birth, to 1989 when the second photo was taken. The heavily...
Address to Johannesburg Arts Alive Festival 2007 opening event The story of jazz in South Africa is one of ups and downs, highs, lows, laughter and tragedy. In fact it is much like the lives most of us live day-to-day. Out of this mess, every now and then, something...
