25 January 2023

When I was in primary school — this was in the early 80s — we had a ‘library’ which had then just been renamed to ‘the media centre’.  Why?  Because over and above books, we now also had other forms of information-carrying devices.  Such as televisions weighing 70 kilos on squeaky-wheel trolleys, which, in turn,…

The Pleasure of Writing Wrongly.
9 December 2018

English is not my first language. While I have completely anglicised, my mother tongue is Afrikaans.  Out of my three serious relationships, my first two were with Afrikaans girls.  I only changed my home language to English once I moved in with Andrea. Having said that, I could speak conversational English from when I was…