Great Grandfather Grinch
…Read More…: Great Grandfather GrinchI am a great-grandfather. All my beautiful friends lined up to pour out good wishes, and I felt blessed. But it’s not my fault! Not my choice! Just my fate…it feels strange people “congratulating” me. What – for having survived this long? If I had been the father at age 67 I would have deserved congratulations-…
Rogue One – a Rogue Review
…Read More…: Rogue One – a Rogue ReviewWell, frrreeeeyow! Reason they call it a Space Opera? Not telling you, if you haven’t seen it, that’d be a spoiler. Clue: what happens at the end of the opera? The fat lady sings? No, not that stereotype, Though, talking about stereotypes, The heroes of course are 92% white male. Whereas the baddies are 100%…
Back in broken Brexit Britain…worse verse
…Read More…: Back in broken Brexit Britain…worse verseHurray hurray hurray Britain has had its day The trains are stuck Streets full of muck Hurray Theresa May Hurray hurray hurray! There’s poverty on the way With budgets cut The poor shut up And schools squeezed all the way Hurray hurray hurray! Our media’s going away The Murdoch lies And buys the Skies…

From Cape Town to London – in conclusion
…Read More…: From Cape Town to London – in conclusionWaiting So in an airport lounge again, waiting for a flight. I had been booked Cape Town – Gatwick. I changed it to Heathrow. Irony Irony! As a (light green) member of the Green Party; as a resident of Chiswick, right under the flight path from Heathrow; as an insomniac – I have dutifully hated…

House Shopping
…Read More…: House ShoppingThis is not a decapitated dog Turns out Number 1 Son (who is also Number 2 and 3 son as he is in fact the only son. He is also Number 1 Child as I have no other. I mention this because I will be calling him Sunwun throughout.) needs a new house. Not that…

How to Make Millions by Screwing South Africans!
…Read More…: How to Make Millions by Screwing South Africans!Hipster Hovels in Cape Town’s CBD These tips could change your life! Part 1: Properteee Buy that crack house on Buitenkunt Street. Hells bells babe, where have you been! This is the final opportunity to make money from property in Cape Town! Houses here are nearly as expensive as they are in London. That…
Letter from Azania 6: So Far So?
…Read More…: Letter from Azania 6: So Far So?Mid-term Report I left South Africa – soon to be Azania I thought, after an extremely bloody revolution in which everybody died – in 1970. And now officially a Brit I am back in the loving arms of my son and family. Both the country and I have been through riveting change – I have…

Letter from Zumania 5: To Fatty and Other Cats
…Read More…: Letter from Zumania 5: To Fatty and Other CatsDear Rich Foreigner Four billion years ago the Mediterranean set up a franchise on the southern tip of Africa. Probably by mistake, as there were few tourists then who were prepared to make the long journey down Gondwana, which was the only continent in the world then, past all the volcanoes and through the steaming…
Letter from Zumania 4: Sink or Swim?
…Read More…: Letter from Zumania 4: Sink or Swim?A Fairy Story “Once upon a time in a land called Zumania, there lived a family of bears. They were mummy bear, Daddy Bear and twenty two baby bears, aged between 38 and 5 years old. Most of the baby bears were called Tubby because they had eaten so much honey they were as…
