ANGUS SHAW Blog

Good old bad old days of smoking

Remember the good old bad old days? We all smoked, sometimes behind the bike shed at school. It’s a no-no now.  Movies dating back pre-1990s had police detectives, spies and...

I am not the one

An old African saying goes like this: I am not the one It means denial. Did you take my bicycle? I am not the one  It also shifts the blame....

Plain to see, fair play’s gone

Once upon a time here at home in Zimbabwe a swap meant a fair swap – in the playground, two marbles for two crayons, one football card for another, licorice...

Mr Churchill the wiseacre (… er, wiseass)

If you saw my offering on schools in Zimbabwe, here are some of Winston Churchill’s quotations, wisdoms or otherwise that pupils at Churchill School might enjoy. (Sources credit:everywhere.)    ...

A tale of two schools

  Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt enjoying humour at the height of WWII. Churchill apparently could be quite an amusing fellow. Here it looks like FDR is having a good...

Babes do it better

In parts of the English speaking world builders and plumbers in loose trousers, when bending down for tricky tasks, show what’s known as ‘builders bum,’ or more politely rear-end cleavage....

Books, bookshelves and TV

You can buy false bookshelves these days by the metre in length. Commentators and experts being interviewed on TV or Zoom and stuff almost always have books behind them to...

And now for something different

With all that’s going on in the world today, it might be time to look at peculiarities, the off-beat and the humour prevailing in past and present times. Exactly 50...

Youngsters to save the world …

  Smoking very bad. War very bad. The Great Plague very bad. Most things very bad in the olden days. It’s different now! In Afghanistan, starving children are sold to...

A litany of scandals

So it’s just two years since our playboy ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure died in his Rolls Royce on the way home from all night revelling and drinking at his now closed Harare...