Month: August 2007

I have just returned from a trip to SA, with a few days in Mauritius en route home. It’s fascinating to look at the country from the perspective of a ‘tourist’, and to see where the stresses are. The good news: not a great deal has changed. The bad news: everybody I met seems so…

I am a crook. Each time I speak to a lawyer he tells me this. Not in words. It is a narrowing of the eyes, a slight shift away from me as he fights to find a reason why I might be wrong, a slight feeling that a mere mortal, unschooled in Latin even, might…

Apologies for the erratic flow of Petes Weekly, but after working 18 hours/day for seven days/week over the past 6 weeks, the woman of my dreams suggested that I was getting a little too acclimatised to UK life. (A recent survey of UK men indicated that a significant percentage bathe just 3 times each week,…