This is my current all-time favourite children’s picture book (of those I haven’t published, of course): Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers, who’s also the author of the almost-as-fabulous How to Catch a Star and The Incredible Book-Eating Boy. (Click on the cover here to buy it from Amazon. Or contact Cape Town’s Jeffers expert Kelly at A is for Apple (16B Kloofnek Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town; +27 21 424 5409.)

BA Baracus, aka Mr T, is back — for a moment at least, thanks to some digital wizardry and a Snickers ad campaign.

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There are only two white South African men on the programme of this year’s Poetry Africa Festival. This means I can officially say my nominal cultural group is being ‘represented’ at an event. What’s more, my one representative is Stephen Gray, which is a bit like being represented at a conference of super-heroes by Father Christmas.
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I have always sworn that I will never have a TV in the bedroom. But I am only starting to figure out why, and my reasons have not been very good. A little TV in the bedroom could even be healthy for relationships, as long as you understand why. I have always sworn that I will never have a TV in the bedroom. But I am only starting to figure out why, and my reasons have not been very good. A little TV in the bedroom could even be healthy for relationships, as long as you understand why.

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A brief follow-up from my last entry.

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