Welcome to my PMB blog
- 21 December 2020 - Die Groot Trek - 17 days in the Dargle Valley staying in the Big House at Lemonwood Cottages
- 30 July 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - The Sun, the Earth, Ryan, Rachel and the Corona Virus
- 3 May 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Bicycle - two wheels attached to a frame, and I have only ever needed one of them
- 30 April 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Now Level 5 and the last day
- 26 April 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Day 29 - I have a mask and I don't have Zwift
- 24 April 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Day 22 - Where has the two weeks gone? and The Easter Road Death Toll and other issues
- 5 April 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Days 5-7 - Stationary Cycle Trainer - The Big Ezee
- 4 April 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Days 2-4 - Stationary Cycle Trainer - The Pipe Rollers
- 27 March 2020 - The Corona Diaries - Lock-down - Day 1
- 21 March 2020 - The Corona Diaries - the day on which the Berg 100 was to have been ridden
- 25 December 2019 - The ebike build - and the quest to ride the Berg 100 in a good time!
- 22 December 2019 - The Town Hill Web Cam - A brief History
- 20-22 September 2019 - The Roof Revival - MTB DSV Highland 100
Clarens 2019, not quite the Roof of Africa Rally, but a close second!
- 25-31 July 2019 - The Roof Revival - Cleaning and Repairs
- 3 June 2019 - South African Migration - An arbitrary reading List
- 17 March 2019 - The Cape Town Cycle Tour
- 2 March 2019 - The Cascades Stream - uMsunduzi is knee deep
- 18 January 2019 - The Nonsuch Road Sewer - uMsunduzi is knee deep
- 6 June 2018 - WhatsApp, has it been compromised by Facebook?
- 1 June 2018 - Afrihost - Are we in it for the long haul?
- 19 May 2018 - Birds on the Murray River Photographed while on a House Boat Cruise with Edith, Blanche, Charles (Vaaljapie) and Liz
- 20 February 2018 - Complex Livin in a Mini-Sub
- 27 November 2017 - Hau, Huawei P10 weighs too much - LG G4 runs Sports Tracker without a SIM card
- 20 November 2017 - Sports Tracker and the Huawei P10 versus the LG G4
- 17 October 2017 - Sports Tracker and the Huawei P10 -Does not exactly work
- 17 October 2017 - Vodacom - How the contracts offered to cell phone customers could be improved
- 26 September 2017 - Satellite Tracked Cycling Stats - More hit than miss?
- 21 August 2017 - The long walk to a conclusion - Pietermaritzburg is in a mess, literally and figuratively
- 30 May 2017 - Stick Shifting a Mountain Bike - Another Handy Hint
- 10 December 2016 - The Link Road Garden Refuse Site
- 2 June 2016 - The National Research Foundation sees wood where the University of KwaZulu-Natal sees chaf
- 2 June 2016 - 2016 and The University of Cape Town still leads the 2013 National Research Foundation researcher ratings
- 6 May 2016 - The Witness, Pietermaritzburg and Bike (Eventing) City
- 13 February 2016 - The drought, Pietermaritzburg and the water crisis
- 21 November 2015 - President Jacob Zuma - South Africa has good stories to tell (One mans fight for justice in the form of compensation from the Road Accident Fund)
- 18 July 2015 - The Animal's German Band - A song Granny Hall used to sing
- 30 March 2015 - The Allerton Provincial Veterinary Laboratory - Gates and Control Systems
- 30 March 2015 - The 2015 Berg 100 - One of the toughest one day MTB events in South Africa
- 24 March 2015 - Riding on the Edge (of the pavements in Pietermaritzburg)
- 28 February 2015 - Pietermaritzburg's Cycle Paths
- 23 February 2015 - The Natalia Gardens Outdoor Gym
- 19 February 2015 - The 2015 Dusi - aspects of the start as viewed in the city
- 25 October 2014 - Nonsuch Road - and a walk that has become a journey!
- 9 September 2014 - Suprise, Suprise!!! The University of Cape Town still tops the 2014 National Research Foundation Researcher Ratings Log
- 09 June 2014 - Admittedly limited impressions of Germany - In search of the Rhine
- 16 July 2014 - Our Dargle Valley Pottery Collection
- 22 May 2014 - The LG G2 Smart Phone - First Impressions
- 30 April 2014 - 2014 Tour Durban - Was I a horse or a donkey (actually a cow for the purposes of this blog)?
- 30 April 2014 - Computer Workstation Ergonomics should not be colour blind!
- 27 April 2014 - The Nokia Pureview 808 - Simply the best!
- 8 March 2014 - To pack, or not pack for Perth, Grandchildren make for an interesting comparison.
- 8 March 2014 - The Desktop Personal Computer and the Paperless Office, Don't touch me on my PC
- 3 March 2014 - Ours is not to reason why! (or How not to deal with a tree that falls across a road)
- 27 February 2014 - Why I ride a bike, the literral and figurative ups and downs
- 7 February 2014 - Manhole Covers Down Under
- 28 September 2013 - The University of Cape Town still leads the 2013 National Research Foundation researcher ratings
- 24 September 2013 - My bit of kwaZulu (akaHeaven) A Heritage Day Special
- 18 September 2013 - Jim Green Footwear delivers
- 23 August 2013 - Discovery's Vitality program messes with my brain
- 17 August 2013 - Discovery's Vitality program makes me sweat the small stuff (also features my Virgin Active Gym experience)
- 10 June 2013 - South African Tellecommunications upstaged by Kenya
- 26 May 2013 - Die Rooikat (The Red Cat) - Symbol of strength or scorned talent?
- 22 May 2013 - How to train a Secondary School Teacher
- 20 May 2013 - How to open (free) up an iMac
- 19 April 2013 - A Tour Durban Training ride asks some questions
- 14 April 2013 - The Capital Hill Climb
- 12 March 2013 - Grey's Hospital Taxi Rank barrier refurbished!
- 22 December 2012 - Msunduzi (inc. Voortrekker) Museum
- 11 December 2012 - Umsunduzi (Pietermaritzburg [PMB]) - The lost Last Bastion of the British Empire.
- 7 November 2012 - Grey's Hospital Taxi Rank barrier bashed!
- 1 October 2012 - Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- 3 September 2012 - Computer Science - an obsession with abstraction
- 30 August 2012 - Music Instruction 101 - Teacher Speaks
- 18 August 2012 - Pietermaritzburg Weather in August - Who is right?
- 17 August 2012 - Martians enjoy Mrs Miggins' ravishing pies!
- 10 August 2012 - Apple re-invents the mouse, then shuns it!
- 30 July 2012 - How does the University of KwaZulu-Natal rate?
- 17 July 2012 - Mandela Day
- 13 July 2012 - Man covers Personhole
- 24 June 2012 - The Three R's
- 24 June 2012 - The Three P's
- 24 June 2012 - Why I blog, or whatever it is I am doing here and Goodbye Telkom, Hello MWeb!!!
- 20 June 2012 - My digital photography migration
- 19 June 2012 - Telkom Copper Cable Theft - updated 28 June 2012 - added two further reading URLs
- 6 June 2012 - To App, or not to App, for MyCalendar, no longer a question!
- 5 June 2012 - There is a pip in it
- 1 June 2012 - What should I do, or is it ... Ma, I dunno what to do!
- 29 May 2012 - Cycling in PMB and my MTB Downhill on Old Howick Road
- 25 May 2012 - Homemade Cycle Helmet Headcam
- 29 November 2011 - Pass Info Bill-less Press Freedom
- 22 November 2011 - The road to Injisuthi
- 14 November 2011 - Pietermaritzburg/Msunduzi National Botanical Garden
- 12 November 2011 - Time to march on the Msunduzi City Hall
- 3 November 2011 - My fourth Nokia N8 has a battery problem - aka - Why I abandoned the Nokia N8 and Nokia in general.
- 30 October 2011 - My fourth Nokia N8 is a great phone with an even greater camera
- 26 October 2011 - Why pick on Telkom when you can pick on Nashua Mobile instead
- 26 October 2011 - What I would do to fix PMB if I was running the city
