Category Archives: Nature

Chance, Luck, Synchronicity, Coincidence and Déjà vu

Posted on October 22, 2019 by colonialist

Yet another example of synchronicity, involving the Titanic, has inspired me to revisit the topic. I have dipped into it periodically, including here: https://colonialist.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/all-things-synchronistic/ Jung has, as quoted in the above post, provided a definition that lifts it beyond mere … Continue reading →

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Sea, Sky and See a Reduced Skyline

Posted on October 3, 2019 by colonialist

The weather has been weird and windy over the past week. Chilly, and untypical for the time of the year. I climbed into our lookout point for a picture down the beach, gaining this strange aspect. Then a slight swivel … Continue reading →

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Seagull Rescue to C.R.O.W. about.

Posted on July 28, 2019 by colonialist

After many hassles to get the file up and going, I was just about to start an edit, in favour of which I had declined a visit to the beach, when the beach party returned with a Kelp Seagull that … Continue reading →

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Boring but Really Awful Subject.

Posted on July 27, 2019 by colonialist

Today we attended a talk given by Johan Bodenstein, an esteemed local environmentalist, on the menace increasingly posed by the Polyphagus Shot Hole Borer Beetle. It is rampant in Johannesburg, which may soon cease being the biggest urban forest in … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Current Affairs, Durban and Coast Horticultural Society, Gardens, Horticulture, Nature, Personal Journal | Tagged , , , | 15 Comments

Caterpillar Rescue

Posted on July 26, 2019 by colonialist

© July 2019 Colonialist

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Highs and lows

Posted on June 22, 2019 by colonialist

I’m going to bed, and will forget About wrestling with a horrible internet; But my own praises quickly sing Re rising to the heights in gardening Then one-forty-nine steps went scrambling down With crab from the depths to play the … Continue reading →

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Origin

Posted on April 11, 2019 by colonialist

The Rhyme Prompt for Day 11 of GloPoWriMo reads: ‘we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of origin. Where are you from? Not just geographically, but emotionally, physically, spiritually?’ This makes me think of Knysna Heads where I … Continue reading →

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Entertaining Creatures at Chantecler

Posted on December 31, 2018 by colonialist

Yesterday we all went to provide entertainment for the fish, buck and peacocks to be found at Chantecler Hotel in Drummond, some forty minutes or so from home. It is not cler . . . er, clear . . . … Continue reading →

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Just When You Thought it was Safe to Get Back into the Posts … (scary music)

Posted on December 20, 2018 by colonialist

I notice that I last posted a whole week ago. I have missed me, even if nobody else has. Don’t ask! (You don’t need to, I’ll give you the highlights anyway, such as family down in the Cape and all … Continue reading →

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Actual activity deactivates virtual activity.

Posted on November 15, 2018 by colonialist

The more one does that one might blog about, The more one’s blogging time is put in doubt; I have been kept completely on the hop, And thus my blog came screeching to a stop! Let me at least give … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Books, Colonialist, Humorous rhyme, Nature, Personal Journal, Swimming Squad Training | Tagged , , , | 27 Comments