Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about what constitutes success. It seems to me that it means many things to many people, but the majority of us strange creatures called humans seem to focus on wealth as our yardstick. At the height of the Victorian era, class was more the criterion but, of […]
The other day I was thinking about anyone with serious money I could approach, who may be interested in investing in ExoBrain. It occurred to me that I was at school with at least two future billionaires (in US dollars) and did some filming for a third. Sadly, one of them died at 53 years […]
Moving one’s home has often been described as one of the most stressful activities in life. Moving a home in one’s eighties takes this particular drama to a whole new level! We arrived in the UK from South Africa seven years ago to live in the lush, green-forested county of Sussex, England. The 7,000 acres […]
I’m not sure how many more stories about my life, largely but not entirely in South Africa, I can dredge up from the filing cabinet of my mind. So, I thought I’d go in a different direction this time. I have probably mentioned my cousin Vera Atkins before, but the other day I was glancing […]
Once again, I must emphasize that I’m not a great student of politics and my comments are purely based on my own observations of what was happening to the country I had always loved since I first arrived there at the age of ten. When South Africa finally achieved a democratic government in 1994, South […]
There is something that has puzzled me for many years. It is the way in which we who have had the “privilege” of being born in the Western world have aggressively exported our expertise, technology, and management skills to developing nations. Sadly, along with this priceless information, comes the whole baggage of the ills of […]
For some strange reason it seems to be a “passing on” season. ExoTeamer Number Two Alan Douglas has been well and truly validated by the entire ExoBrain team, and then a lifelong friend in South Africa, Victor Lidchi, who some of you may know, passed after a battle with poor health for many years. We […]
In early 2013, while still in Johannesburg, I was contacted by Harry Lyons the author of the definitive book on my ancestor Dr. Christopher Dresser, The People’s Designer. As the head of the Dresser family that originated in England in 1352 with the arrival of Christopher Dresser, a Danish sea captain, Harry invited me to […]
Obituary As one grows older, it’s fact of life that more and more of one’s friends and relatives succumb to death. I read about old school friends or people I have met from later periods in my life who have passed away. However, when a current close friend, a person I would normally see a […]
Yesterday, Hero and I celebrated our 56th Anniversary and it just so happened that it was also Mother’s day in the UK, so my beloved wife enjoyed a double whammy! We celebrated, within our extended bubbles, of course, lunch with our good friends Gisela and Karl-Heinz Guenter Vogel and dinner with another lovely friend Hannah […]