There are some truly awesome titles available, including my much-loved novel The Company of Birds.

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ZamaShort #2 'Summer' by Nerine Dorman @nerinedorman.bsky.social
1st June 2025.
Science Fiction

Image source: The Guardian, Freddie Mercury shot for Melody Maker, Christmas 1974. Photograph: Barrie Wentzell

Freddie was a consummate showman, perhaps one of the greatest singers we saw in the 20th century, and his loss at the age of 45 to what is now a manageable disease is perhaps one the greatest tragedies in music history.

What can I say? The music has seen me through many dark times, got me playing guitar and taking stabs at writing my own songs.

She's very pretty and extremely bright. She has us well trained. 😅

I don't think you've met Maia either.

I find doodling while I'm listening to lectures helps me listen better.

You can come meet her on the 6th. She's a very sweet little chook.

She also started working on the stash to end all stashes. I only figured out she'd gone broody after two nights where she'd not slept in the coop. Nozulu and Phindi are lucking out tomorrow. I can't eat all these eggs.

The Egyptian Society of South Africa invites you to attend this lecture at St George’s Grammar School in Richmond Road, Mowbray, on Tuesday, November 25, at 7.30pm. Parking is available on the premises. Lectures are free for TESSA members; visitors pay R30. Refreshments cost R10.

Dr Lester Cowley will share a fascinating deep dive into this two-thousand-year-old device’s past and purpose as a special-purpose analogue computer.

Also, my brilliant lovely husband helped me figure out the bones of my next Sauútiverse story. I am so glad.