Having extolled the virtues of some successful men and women I have known, I thought it might be fun, in contrast, to recall a couple of moments in my life that resulted in uproarious, deep belly laughs. Verbal humor can be funny if cleverly conceived, but often enough it can be silly. I confess to […]
I had intended to include two ladies in my previous blog but the boundless activities of Prue Leith escaped onto the pages and I decided to cut the blog into two. In about 1961, I ended up stage managing two plays in Durban after having failed to secure the job of 2nd Unit Director for […]
I think what has fascinated me most about meeting young people is discovering what they are planning to do with their lives. And then, best of all, discovering that they have achieved and sometimes exceeded their goals. After working in television in Britain for three years, I returned to South Africa in late 1959. My […]
Rummaging around in the memory bin of my mind, I’m trying to find stuff I haven’t written about before but is nevertheless part of my life, which for better or worse has been the central theme of my blogs. I haven’t written all these anecdotes for self-aggrandizement, but rather as a commentary on people and […]
When I was first asked to do a blog on the ExoTech website, I was both excited and apprehensive. I had never written an ongoing series of blogs before and wasn’t at all sure what I should write about. Eventually, I have simply written about events that have touched my life in many different places, […]
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 […]