Please can we hang some violent criminals! Read More »

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Why good TV is important and how I wish I'd had a PS3 a lot earlier Read More »

I had to share this. In a snide (although wholly unbalanced) article that screams ‘I told you so’, someone called Jonathan Steele of The Guardian has claimed that the US had ‘admitted defeat’ in Iraq. ‘Defeat’ is a very strong word with military connotations; Hitler was defeated, Troy was defeated, Bismarck soundly defeated Napoleon III, etc. This might come as a surprise to the rest of us who realise that the only reason Saddam is no longer in power is because he was swept out by the US military. No doubt Saddam would have enjoyed his hanging a lot more if he known that Steele was watching those bits that matched his personal agenda and had decided that the Baghdad Butcher was really ahead on points. That Iraq is only the second Middle East democracy and that Mad Dog Gadaffi caught such a fright at what the US was doing that he voluntarily dismantled his A-bomb programme doesn’t matter apparently. Read More »

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While cleaning the swimming pool yesterday I half-remembered something I had come across on a tabloid site during the course of last week.

Assuming for a moment that anything written in the tabloids can be trusted, I learned that the soon to be divorced Guy Ritchie has halted plans for the pool at the home he shared with soon to be ex-wife Madonna (I wish she’d chosen another name) to be emptied and filled with ‘Kabbalah water’. I treat my pool with granular chlorine only. I know it’s correctly balanced when my dogs drink from it despite having other water available or I don’t have a faint smell of pool chemicals on my skin when I get out. How does one balance a pool a pool filled with Kabbalah water? Add another ‘blessing’ maybe when you start seeing algae? Would the kiddies be allowed in? We all know after all that any swimming pool with children added soon gets diluted with urine. Read More »

The object of today’s rant are “Catholics” who support abortion, particularly those who hold public office. The position is really quite simple: the Church has always taught that it is murder to terminate an unborn child, finished. The magical moment when life begins is conception, finished. Ending a life prematurely and outside one of the few and very narrow exceptions (self defence for instance) is murder, finished. Read More »

Happy days!

Bette Midler is to stop touring to ‘help save the planet’ Read More »

Ever been to a high school reunion? Mine was a couple of months ago.

I was double booked as there was a kickboxing trial scheduled for the same time. I also had a bad cold and could barely get any air into my lungs without my nose fizzing and my throat feeling as if I was swallowing linseed oil.

Going to the trial would involve waking up really early in what was still winter and driving to the far East Rand of Gauteng in the dark. The East Rand is notorious as a place full of people who like to fight. At other times it’s referred to as the world’s biggest rusty Ford garage without a roof. The hall where the event was held is notoriously draughty and the toilets, wall-to-wall filth, always look like they belong in the ninth circle of hell. Read More »

Here are some answers to questions I get asked regularly:

1. Is Frank de Sales your real name?
It’s a pen name of course - a corruption ‘St Francis de Sales’, the patron of writers.

2. Why did you choose that?
Besides that I thought it sounded cool? St Francis is also my patron and someone whose works I admire very much. The Catholic nature of Devil’s Island makes it very clear what some of the things very important to me are and it fitted nicely from a number of perspectives. Besides, my real name is made up of three first names and doesn’t come across very well. Working for a bank for my day job, I also wanted to keep a bit of a distance while I got used to being published. My wife Linda furthermore does a lot of work on the books and they’re as much her output as they are mine. Using ‘Frank de Sales’ is a way of acknowledging her valuable input. Read More »