My ticket showed clearly that I had booked seat 1c - a window seat in the front row of the bus. However, "Choose any seat behind the first three rows," the hostess told me when I boarded the bus to come home yesterday. Now I'm not a pushy person, ... Read more

Apologies to all for lack of blogs and comments today, and apologies in advance for tomorrow. I'll be bussing it back from Cape Town to Klerksdorp tomorrow and won't have an opportunity to go online again until Thursday. I board the bus as 13.30 tomo... Read more

I tried to add photos to this blog but it didn't work, so I uploaded them another way and now there are duplicates or one and a half copies of each. Clearly my plan hasn't worked. The photo that appears within the blog is out of place and the others ... Read more

One of the most lucrative markets for writers in South Africa is probably the schools. Not all schools will buy your book/s, but if the Education Department buys them for government schools, you're quids in. A new curriculum was very r... Read more

I have just witnessed one of the wonders of medical technology. I've read of people survivng with one kidney. I've met people with damaged or diseased kidneys, who go to dialysis regularly. The dialysis machine filters their blood, removing... Read more

The bus trip to Cape Town was OK – ish. Sixteen and a half hours was rather a long time, especially with my feet on my hand baggage because there was no baggage shelf above the seats. There were a couple of 20 minute stops but if you get off... Read more

This time tomorrow I\'ll be heading towards Cape Town on a bus. We most often call a \'coach\' a bus here, and the comfort ranges from very ordinary and very crowded, to comfortable. Long ago, and perhaps even now in some of the way out rural ar... Read more

Our publishing houses are working under huge pressure at the moment, getting material ready for the schools. The publisher I've been working with phoned me today with an urgent need for stories for older children. But they don't have time to wait for... Read more

Cliff hanging experiences are great in novels, but in one's own life they're exhausting. I'm sure I'm not the only Writelinker who has experienced high drama in real life. This week has been a bit of hell. So how do you handle cliff hangers? And h... Read more

It\'s my music lesson again tomorrow. I\'ve got used to Delilah and she me. A lesson should be 30 minutes, but often it stretches to an hour or more. Delilah\'s a very interesting person and very learned. One week we spoke about what a pity it is ... Read more