We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom
Remember us - if […]

Heath arrives in Joburg today - 3 days early - because she figured it’s a good idea. Hooray! It’ll be great to have my sister around - although I’m heading to the Midlands on Saturday for 10 days so I’ll be popping in to Maritzburg quite often to see her.

“Right now, human beings as a mass, have a gruesome appetite for what they call ‘real’, whether it’s Reality TV or the kind of plodding fiction that only works as low-grade documentary, or at the better end, the factual programmes and biographies and ‘true life’ accounts that occupy the space where imagination used to sit.
Such […]

2005 turned out to be a good year - not an easy one but a memorable one. Here are some things which happened:

1. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know when Chuck
Norris is going to kill you.
2. Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked Bruce Lee, breaking him in
half. The result was Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
3. Contrary to popular belief, Chuck Norris was dropped at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
4. If you ask Chuck Norris what time it […]

Congrats to the Eagles for winning the Pro 20! This weekend I spent some time at St Benedicts in Rosettenville on a silent retreat, compleat with Anglican nuns and a rabbit (and Minki van der Westhuizen). I’ll blog about that sometime soonish. My Dad left for London for a week last night on business (except […]

[This blog post is dedicated to my sister Lyndi who’s living it up in the UK!]
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Andrew correctly answered the almost incredibly impossible question at a quiz evening last night (well, he got closest). The question is: How long would it take to row around Africa if you rowed at world record 2000m pace?
He answered 68.5 days and the answer was 69 and a few hours. A good answer is it’s […]

Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties.
Terry had married a woman from America, and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning that needed doing at their house. He said that it took […]

An image search for “tiananmen” on Google.com and Google.cn reveal VERY different perspectives - because Google has agreed to censor its Chinese search results. The .com result shows many different pictures of a lone protestor standing in front of a column of tanks while the .cn results is all happiness and light - family photographs […]