Helen Morgan - Snapperup of unconsidered trifles

February, 2007 archive

Zistwar Ti-Prens

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I first read Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince in the original French in year eleven at school (1983). There are now over 160 translations of this beautiful story, and in 2006 it was translated into Mauritian Creole (Morisien/Morisyen) - Zistwar Ti-Prens. I read about its publication (ironically in Germany) in the paper the day […]

The risk of a thunderstorm

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Funny how Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology phrase their forecasts.
I have become an avid peruser of the Bureau’s home page (and must commend them for finally realising that it was silly to bury this information several clicks into the website when it is the main service they provide we great unwashed). It has been a given […]