Well, it has to be done. On Tuesday, next week, I will be flying out to Awestruck-and-failure for a 3 week stint. My junior attachment will be participating in something called World Scholars, an academic forum involving children from 50 countries. The event is being held in the Melbourne Convention Centre form the 18th to 21st of August. Continue reading “A home girt by sea… and one that is not.”
Tag: Africa
Painting vandalised
The controversial painting of Zuma at the Goodman gallery (The Spear) has according to my lunchtime news reports been destroyed. (Original post with undefaced pictures here)
Africa, Black and White
Delayed Gratification
The body of this post has been copied to a safe place pending a decision by Boadicea. It will be reinstated and re-opened for comments if, and when, she concludes that it is appropriate material for the Chariot. Bearsy.
Having read the full text of this post, I have decided that it will not be published.
I find the article in The Spectator offensive. I fail to see how ‘Indigenous Australians’ behaved in the 1920s (long before most had contact with European habits) has any relevance to the lazy ‘Indigenous British’ who fail to toilet train their children, despite being exposed to the wonders of the ‘Water Closet’ for several generations.
My apologies for the chequered history of this post – but I am rather busy on other matters.
I have re-opened the post for comments.
Boadicea
Protected: Bliz – John Henry!
Antelope & Buffalo .
The Cape Buffalo is one of the Big Five the others being Elephant, Rhinoceros, Lion and Leopard. I was lucky enough to see three of them missing out on the Rhinoceros and Leopard. Continue reading “Antelope & Buffalo .”
Elephants.
These were taken last year in Botswana. Truly majestic animals! This year at much about the same time, I will be taking pic’s of working elephants in Chang Mai Thailand. Not the same sort of thing.
For Janus
I apologise for hijacking your post about education, but it did lead elsewhere and left me wondering about your views on colonisation, especially the colonisation of Africa about which you seem to be extremely critical. I would genuinely like to know, where you think the colonisers went wrong and how things could have been better managed. This is not about mud-slinging and name-calling but a sincere attempt to understand why it is that you think that we, the colonisers and ‘white ruling class’ were so much at fault and what we could have and should have done better. That mistakes were made, I cannot disagree, but they were not all made with malice of forethought. Continue reading “For Janus”
Off to hospital this morning
Some of you may remember that last year I ventured on a motorcycle expedition through Southern Africa. I began to write about it on the other place, but when it all went pear shaped I sort of gave up the exercise.
On the 14th of August my little adventure took a turn for the worse. This is a sanitised account of what I wrote to family and friends at the time. It is quite long I am sorry to say, but that is just the way it is. Continue reading “Off to hospital this morning”
Boadicea's Chariot 