Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Once upon a time there were two teddy bears much loved by two brothers called Andy and Roddy. After they had grown up and left home the two brothers didn't remember their bears. But when mother Joan died the bears were found again: they had been kept as precious treasures in her special cupboard. Roddy... Continue Reading →
There has been a good deal of public discussion about the recently released 2011 population census and it is now possible to start to see some of the local level information. I downloaded the spreadsheet of age-sex information for all of the country's municipalities from the website of Statistics South Africa. Then it was a... Continue Reading →
Today was the day scheduled for my hike over into Featherstone Kloof. The weather forecast on Saturday said that Sunday would be 30-35 Centigrade so I got up early at 5.40 and was off by 7.00. Unfortunately the forecast was wrong and as I trod slowly home at 12.00 it was 39! Far too hot.... Continue Reading →
I am sure every doting grandfather says to his daughter 'he looks just like ...... at ..... when .....' but here's something from the photo archive. Two photo pairs of Jeannie and Luke at just about the same age.
Being home alone looking after Luke when Jeannie and Steve are both busy brings back many happy memories. Katy used to take field trips up-country when we lived in Kenya and that was my chance for quality time with Helen and Jeannie. I only get Luke for a few hours or a day though, which... Continue Reading →
This last two weeks have been extremely wet in Grahamstown which has led to the main road from Port Elizabeth collapsing completely. There are some great pictures here in Grocott's Mail. On Thursday, after 10 days of rain, we got a day of warmth and sunshine which led to the most spectacular and menacing storm... Continue Reading →
I used to have a website devoted to Grahamstown's urban geography before Apple wrote off Mobile Me and support for iWeb. It described how the city grew, showed the segregation and apartheid areas and had pairs of photographs showing how the city has changed. All of those images are now in the gallery below. The... Continue Reading →
Before going to bed last night I took a look out from the stoep . It was really clear with a bright moon rising behind the coral tree whose blossoms were picked out vividly by the house lights. I thought it would be worth trying to capture the two things and here are the results.... Continue Reading →
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