Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Christmas is upon us - time for some summer fun! Our new pool area is getting lots of use at the moment: the weather's been lovely and we have a great forecast for the Christmas braai - 28 degrees. Here's some pictures from the last few days of holiday time …. Jeannie, Steve and Luke... Continue Reading →
I am often asked: just what is this SANORD organisation, who is in it?Well the answer to the first question can be found in the new (and much improved) SANORD website.We currently have over 40 member Universities from the Nordic and SADC (Southern African Development Community) regions and to answer the second question I have... Continue Reading →
I spent all of last week in Malawi attending the 2013 SANORD Symposium. The Southern African-Nordic Centre's 4th Biennial was excellently hosted by the University of Malawi at the newly built Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe. Here's a slideshow. The pictures are taken in Lilongwe around the conference venue and on our lovely day... Continue Reading →
Last week we were staying in Nieu Bethesda and I realised that one of the important things about the Karoo is the shape and texture of the small things we experience. I've already posted pictures of big skies and clouds or rain storms and sunsets in the Karoo. Yet the Karoo is also in the shape... Continue Reading →
Almost a year ago I posted some pictures of Jeannie and Luke looking rather similar. You wouldn't think that I would manage to get a pair where Helen and Luke look distinctly alike but here they are. Though maybe it''s just the setting, or the cheeky smiles or the stripy clothes …..
Once I got back home to South Africa there were still a few puzzles about Dad's time in Iceland that were left to be solved. They have nagged at me for quite a while and it's only now I've resolved them that I have been able to put these posts together. The first one: where... Continue Reading →
The big problem with trying to follow Dad’s footsteps in Iceland is that I really had no idea where he had been. I had plenty of pictures of him outside Nissen huts in the snow, with his leg in plaster, on a motorbike etc but usually no clue as to where the snaps were taken. ... Continue Reading →
Dad's regiment in World War Two was the 1st/6th Duke of Wellington's (the Dukes) which was based in Skipton. He had a tough time during the war since they were part of the rearguard defending the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk and then saw action in Normandy in 1944. In between times the Dukes sailed... Continue Reading →
This is the last of the four maps based on data in the 2011 Population Census and it plots the dispersal of Grahamstown's small number of Indians or Asians (total 484). The distribution of Grahamstown's Indian or Asian population shows a wide spread through the former white areas. Their group area was located two kilometres almost... Continue Reading →
With 5657 people the white population was the third largest group in Grahamstown recorded in the 2011 Population Census. The map of their distribution shows that the centre of gravity (weighted mean centre) lies approximately one kilometre north west of the Cathedral. Most of the white population live in the northern suburbs and western side... Continue Reading →
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