PS the subliminally placed word in my picture is intentional.

On Thursday morning I received a message with a photo of a whole lot of garbage that had been dumped on the front door of our rental property, sent by

I have officially decided that expanding polyurethane “Filla Foam” is the stickiest and fastest-setting substance known to humankind.   Memo to self: getting the cleaning rags, thinners and cleaning bowl ready

Early this particularly cold morning in bed, I was testing out the Biblical wisdom that “Two are better than one, …if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But

This off the Wonderopolis website: “Siesta means “midday rest.” It comes from the Latin phrase hora sexto, which means “the sixth hour” or approximately noon.  The idea of the siesta

…1999 to be exact. I had no idea how much back-breaking labor this would involve, but I soon found out. The three pictures tell a story: In the first photo

…it suddenly dawned on me that the lights were back on and before I could stop myself I was belting out Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.  Boy, this load shedding is affecting

Spell it like you say it… wonderful! It reminded me of when we needed to get cornices for finishing off our ceiling and our supplier kept calling them cornishes.  It’s

Since rollerblading regularly again, I need to replace the wheels every six months, so I’m always on the lookout for second-hand pairs.  Consequently, on our way to a restaurant yesterday,

That’s what you call détente.  Henry Kissinger would be proud. In my 28th February post I shared how my bath-time fun was threatened by my wife’s Cuban-missile-crisis-like proliferation of threatening

With apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein…”these are a few of my least fav’rite things”

…darn, I liked that shirt.

Firstly, Cedric is not my rubber duck.  I mean seriously, what fully-grown adult names their rubber duck.  Cedric is my plastic frog who is under the water (he’s a bit

Pat Benetar is one of my favourite female Rockers and this song has taken on a special significance for me over the decades.  When I use the word mojo, I

I try to exclude Coke and other soft drinks from my diet because, besides being addictive by cynical design, they are only a few levels up from poison.  On top

So much of this world’s culture revolves around the desperate need to be happy, leading to the manic drive to edit the footage of our lives in order to project

…but when all the painting’s done, and all’s been said and done, any dang fool can see I found me a good one (Prov 18:22).(…and a live one at that)

A “few” tattoos and some stylish beard work…do I feel wooed by the mid-life-crisis-siren? Nah… Tattoos sound like too much pain and money.  Besides, I feel like I want to

…but then I hit myself in the face a few times with G Kittel’s “Theological Dictionary of the New Testament” (volume IV), and it helped me regain my composure.  It

Yesterday I finally got round to having my second Covid jab.  It was as fast and efficient as a McDonalds drive through. When I got to the Fish Hoek civic

THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL BALD CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT In a previous post I waxed pitiful about tooth loss, but it led to zero financial and political advancement.  I have

…I can’t put my finger on it but I felt awkward and uncomfortable as I walked home.

I came across an article in BBC Science Focus (August 2021) establishing a link between missing teeth and loss of intelligence (“Some researchers have suggested that missing teeth may cause

I was putting up some roof sheeting when I discovered this delightfully tenacious little plant. As the song goes, “we’ve paved paradise and put up a parking lot”, but these

A few weeks ago, a gold crown on my molar fell out; “this is not good”, I thought.  The next day the remaining part of the tooth cracked.  I bore

Don’t be fooled.  I’m no more a genuine art-man than I am a genuine plant-man.  You can put lipstick on a pig but that doesn’t make it a beauty pageant

She had lots of books and plants to move (the close-dropping apple sometimes falls between two trees). On the 18th of August I posted that I had experienced a vegetal

Now i’m waiting for the illuminati to locate me through the microchip; but I’m ready for them.  I stocked up on a 6-month supply of doom spray. I’m not trying

I can’t help admiring the average cat’s strong sense of self-entitlement.  Those who struggle excessively with self-effacement watch and take notes.

A few weeks ago I had to remove two old rusted garage door springs and mechanisms.  My wife definitely said, “Be careful, those things are powerful.” I didn’t see any

Several factors conspired to cause my miraculous conversion from floral cynic to fan.  Besides reminding myself of the divorce-destroying adage that has served our marriage so well (“if it’s important

The other day I came in soaked and cold off my bike, to pour the water out of my boots and jump into a hot bath…only to find unexpected guests

…any excuse will do to keep my wife amused and distracted from the fact that I’m several weeks behind on some of the tasks I agreed to on our to-do-list. 

This is a plant at my office ; it’s pretty much dead.  I tried to revive it with water, singing, cooing, and recitations of William Wordsworth, but the ghost is

Four days ago a horrendous amount of water started to seep mysteriously from the base of our kitchen and bathroom walls.  Between deciding whether or not to pay R6000 for

Nothing says “go away” quite so well as an undersized bench and an oversized scowl.  My wife is still coaching me on not barking when I answer the phone or

Obviously, the reason she is so far ahead of me in the photo is not because I couldn’t have kept up if I wanted to.  It was more an act

…and then a childhood memory came flooding back, revealing the source of this disquietude.

You may be wondering what I’m doing with a sledge hammer at work.  You’ve obviously never worked in education.  Besides, doesn’t everyone have a box of superhero costumes in their

Yesterday, on Christmas Eve, I spent the morning making a wooden Christmas tree (…yes I know you can buy them in the shops).  It made me think of the difference

I played drums quietly to Dave Brubeck in the dark, in my shed (Joe Morello, you beauty you!) and then the juice in my laptop dried up.  So I sat