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FOR FIC’S SAKE! I’m in trouble again.

https://www.republikein.com.na/maatskaplike-kwessies/wetgewing-wurg-burgerlike-sektor2023-09-25 “WETGEWING WURG BURGERLIKE SEKTOR Moet teen Vrydag (29th September 2023) registreer In terme van registrasie en nakoming is die fokus veral op kerke, geloofsgebaseerde organisasies en welsynsorganisasies wat onder meer betrokke is by behuising, gesondheid, welsynsdienste en onderwys. Augetto

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The emperor moth dancing rattles

While I concur that the onus is on those who interpret rock art to demonstrate what (perhaps special) ability they possess to do so correctly, and consider why anyone should take their interpretations seriously, I think that there is sufficient

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Another inky blast from the past

digging through another external hard drive with files from days gone by – files created with now long obsolete software programs such as canvas, wordperfect and dbase+ – I found this picture, scanned from the original which was done with

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Rock art in the Remhoogte Pass

 Liz and I spent some time at farm Noab in the Remhoogte pass and had a chance to see some rock art there at a site known as “grossequelle” (sp?). It was a bit of a scramble to get

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Much Ado about matches cont.

Dear thank you for your prompt reply, the kind offer of a voucher and a photo of a Lion matchbox with the usual informative text on its back! This was most reasuring, to say the least! [I do take exception

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Lion saga – Re: Quality control wanting?

Good Day Mr Komen, Thank you for your email and feedback. Kindly please provide the following details, so that we can log your complaint. Postal address where we can send you a voucher Batch code, as per picture below (should

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Much ado about matches – doing, the feats of a lion.

Hi  Like millions of other folks in southern Africa I’m sure, I’ve been using Lion matches for all of my adult life!  Accordingly, I’ve become somewhat irritated in the past year or so by the degradation of your matches, boxes

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Happy heppy hippy hoppy huppy shakes!

May 2022 bring on a public orgy of larrikinism, [a state of being disorderly and mischievous] without offending your own sensibilities; testing the bounds of civil disobedience with your face and grin concealed by a flimsy blue mask. In particular,

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Here’s my first graphic ever published (Vulture News 1980)

During my 1978/79 “sabbatical” from a university zoology degree programme, I had an opportunity to join Peter Mundy and Angus Anthony in the Gonarezhou National Park: now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, but in those days a

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Rediscovered – more early graphic interpretations of evolutionary pathways (1986-1987)

Lanioturdus torquatus, commonly known as the White-tailed Shrike, is a striking endemic species of the South West Escarpment Zone of central and northern Namibia and southern Angola. It remains an enigmatic species with respect its place in avian taxonomy –

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