There were no birds at at Marina da Gama. A coot’s nest and a grebe’s nest near the shore stood empty. Usually they are both buzzing with avian activity.
"It's always interesting to look at old photographs and see how fashions change, and how ridiculous yesterday's fashions look when seen through today's eyes. "
"I enjoy cooking. I'm not particularly good at it, but I think it's a peaceful pastime, and a civilised one too. "
"I sometimes wonder whether the people who design things ever get to use them. I often feel this way about magazines and books. "
"It works best in Afrikaans, but translated, it means a farmer makes a plan. Basically it?s about improvising to solve problems. . . "
"I was slightly shocked to learn the other day that I am suffering from Apoptosis. Actually, so are you. "
"Politicians should know that protests is what happens when you make promises you know you will be unable to keep. "
"I recently asked readers if anyone knew what Preservene soap was and who made it. It was mentioned many times in a book of household hints published in 1926"
I read somewhere recently that the world was now more than $70 trillion in debt. I suspect the Earth?s debt could be described as a ?circular debt?
"I sometimes wonder whether a great many of the world?s problems could be the result of sloppy communication. "
"Since Cape Town became a water-stressed city the citizens have become Aquarians - water carriers. "
"I told him we had a telephone number dedicated to pothole repair, and if we called to report one, it wasn?t long before a team of workers arrived and filled it. ...
"Over the years I have read hundreds of apparently trivial headlines that were nevertheless important to the people who read them. "
"I grew up on a sheep farm and dogs were a vital part of farm life. Apart from the working sheepdogs, my mother always had a pet dog of her own"
"Frankly, I couldn’t see myself standing in a muddy pigsty talking to a successful pig farmer dressed in a three-piece suit," writes David Biggs.
"Land ownership and ?restitution? is an interesting one legally and historically because almost all land everywhere once belonged to somebody else"
I wonder whether untreated water goes bad. Are there any kinds of bacteria that may breed inside those bottles of water? asks David Biggs in his daily column.
In his daily column, Tavern of the Seas, David Biggs writes about how the Cape Town City Council came to it's calculated figure of 87 litres for water consumption. ...