The Antarctic – you absolutely have to go!!!

Once again I have been very lucky to have somebody volunteer a guest post for my blog. As this is somewhere I’d love to go, but probably never will, I was so happy when Christine from Christine Bernasconi Photography went for me! She took some wonderful photographs and wrote this beautiful – and very informative […]

Three old favourites by John le Carré

Let me begin by saying that I don’t usually read spy thrillers. So the fact that I’ve not only read several John le Carré novels, but have some of them on my “favourite books” list, is quite remarkable. For years John le Carré’s novels had been on our bookshelf (Willie is a fan), but I’d not […]

Carve Beyond Reality – Wood Carving Contest in Kenya

Ru-an Hsu, one of the organisers of World Wood Day, (see World Wood Day – 21 March 2013 ) sent me a link to a beautiful video of a wood carving contest held during August 2012  in Kenya. It shows the wood-carvers at work, and they get to talk about what inspires them in their designs. […]

Links repaired

Eha kindly pointed out that not all of the links in yesterday’s post (Rosie’s new blog) were working.  So I’ve sorted that out. I have also put a RSS feed to the Life with a Neurotic Cat blog on the right hand side of Notes from Africa, just under the copyright notice (see image below). […]

Rosie’s new blog

Our dog Rosie now has her own blog! From  Life with a Neurotic Cat . . . So why would I, a dog, want to have my own blog? I suppose I could say “because I can”, but it’s more than that. I’m a smart and opinionated dog, and since Lisa (female human) won’t let […]

World Wood Day – 21 March 2013

As some readers may already know, this blog is primarily about nature in Africa. We love trees and wood! So it is with great pleasure that I want to promote World Wood Day 2013.  The inaugural celebration of World Wood Day is being hosted in Tanzania with a series of specially designed events. I had […]

Looking back – what did you miss?

This is essentially a “best of the last eighteen months” post i.e. since my last post of this kind (See: 7 Links: A Peek Into My Archives). So if like me, you were too busy to keep up with your blog reading this year, have a look and see what you missed. Or if you’ve only […]