It appears as if everything is driven by the need for money. To keep growing the consumer base, adding value where none, in reality exists. Originality, quality and service have been re[placed by standardisation, economies of scale and proprietary rights.
Globalisation
Ford at Rufford in Nottinghampshire besieged by Tik Tok zombies.
The UK
Despite the humps and bumps along the way, we just managed to get everyone in before the Coronavirus changed everything.
The Rhodesian bush war
After being asked what I would do differently, I am still at it all these years later. Still working on it. It is difficult. Difficult to admit that nothing is ever as simple as it could be.
https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnvanZyl7/videos
https://www.facebook.com/watch/106908619984171/689297588441836/
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/peter_baxter_selous_scouts_rhodesian_counter-inbook4you.pdf
http://www.rhodesia.nl/silence.htm
Why even bother
Unseen opportunities
Sharing is caring. But what incentive is there for writers to write? To ask the questions that need to be asked, to explore and open the doors to what is new and exciting?
We have all the tools we need. But not the means.
This is what we need to change. At the beginning of everything we know today, webmasters would scour the net looking for sites with which they could exchange links and interact. But those days are gone. Just as most of the technical obstacles we all used to encount are gone.
Today anyone can set up a hosting account and a web site of their own with the minimal amount of help and without breaking the bank. Something that should ensure that this be a golden age. The realisation of all the dreams, hopes and aspirations. A culture that facilitates the free transfer of skills and know how.
But reality couldn’t be further from the truth. Greed and stupidity have dumbed it down to the point where we no longer communicate. And that needs to change.
New Beginnings
Mass communications
…It was so much harder then
or was it?
There are major connections between the media that is being consumed, via mass communication, and our culture, contributing to polarization and dividing people based on consequential issues.
Seasonal changes
11/4 Had breakfast at the Briny in Portsmouth.
The tulips are out, adding a splash of sunshine and colour to what otherwise has been a couple of wet, windy and cold couple of weeks. Bluebells should also be putting in an appearance.
30/4 Made the mistake of packing the second duvet away. A bit premature. Weather improving, trees have leaves, plenty of green. But still chilly. The tulips are in full bloom and we spent a morning in the bluebell wood at Slindon.
15/4 Weather has improved. A bit of sunshine but still chilly. Last of the bluebells at Sheffield Park and waiting for the roses to bloom at the gardens in Arundel Castle.
15/5 Caught the tail end of the roses.
15/6 Hottest June ever
15/7 Hot with patches of cooler weather. Visites Wakehurst twice in the last two weeks. Very popular but still one of the nicest gardens we have visited.
31/7/23 Weather has become nasty. Sun interspersed with clouds, rain and wind. Better this last week. Have booked two days camping at Brownsea. Trying to dodge the only days of rain. Extreme heat wave in Europe
15/8 Still plauged by changeable weather. It is also noticeably a bit colder and the days are getting shorter. Alternates between wind, rain and patchy sunshine. August is supposed to be dry and warm? Reports keep threatening a heat wave. But always a bit later.
15/9 Hot, at times uncomfortably hot weather for about a week. Short lived. Colder, gloomy, wind and rain this last week. Debating whether to get the winter duvet out. Have started wearing a long sleeve vest under my jacket for deliveries although I haven’t packed the shorts away just yet.
The Western Cape
Leaving Cape Town spend a couple of nights in the winelands. Both Stellenbosch and Franschhoek are good stopovers. There are wine tours and great restaurants.
Carry on through the Robertson valley to join the R62 to Montagu, Barrydale, and Oudtshoorn. From there its across the Outeniqua pass to George and then Knysna, Plettenbery Bay and Tsitsikamma.
On the return leg take the N2 to Mossel Bay then through the farmlands in the Overberg region and Cape Agulhas at the southern most point of Africa. From there back to Hermanus for whale sighting during the Whale season from July to October. And along the coastal road back to Cape Town.