Pete ,

Thanks a lot for your birthhday greetings. I am trying to write a book pertaining to Rumba in certain parts of Africa. My research is in its preliminary stages.
Stephen I.

Surely, Glenn Fry will be missed a lot. The Eagles song, "Take It Easy" was heard as far back as in Uganda while I was still there and it inspired one of my class mates to call himself, "Arizona." That was one of the first times I had heard of the US state of Arizona. That was in...

On the 31st march marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of the famed Tejano singer, Selena Quntanilla-Perez, who some describe as the "real Selena" by her very own manager. Unfortunately, my efforts to upload some very picturesque videos of hers via Youtube were unsuccessful. https://v...

If I can gain access to it, Pete.

Stephen I.

Lucky & Pete, thanks for the birthday compliments. This was quite a birthday that incidentally fell on a Sunday that I had to work with snow relentlessly falling beginning on this day. The snow fall would last three days. It is just beginning to shine reasonably...
Stephen I.

This was to be Uganda's Philly Bongole Lutaaya's last musical performance in prophetic terms of his hit song, "Born in Africa," in October 1989 at Nakivubo Football Stadium. He had promised, God willing, to actually make his last performance at Lugogo Indoor Stadium in December 1989, but t...

The following websites, the state of bibliographical research on Enid Blyton and her literature. It seems that Wikipedia has 762 official books on Enid's literature, while this society's URL, which is far more reliable than that of Wikipedia, has far many more books in its bibliography. Tony, a mill...

Numerous writers, including Enid Blyton and William Shakespeare, have incorporated elements of history, myth, legend, philosophy and classics into their work. There's nothing wrong with that at all - the allusions and reworkings enrich their stories and stimulate the reader to make thought-provokin...

I've read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at least three times, Stephen, though not recently. Numerous authors have written stories about boats, islands or American characters who say "Shucks" so it's hard to say whether Enid Blyton was influenced in any major way by that particular book, ...

It is heartening to learn that The Magic Faraway Tree series is heading to the cinema. In recent months or perhaps years a lot of publicity has been given to The Magic Faraway Tree series. This may because of the astounding success of The Harry Potter series as well as the success of magic and horro...

Pete, I will stick around here and not going anywhere. It seems we may get some snow, but that will be about 9,000 ft [forgive me, we still measure lengths in feet rather than meters in this part of the world] way high in the mountains. We are about 7,000ft. Maybe it might snow heavily later in the ...

I have been reading the section of the anecdotage that gives a resume of the Famous Five books. The grammar and word structure made me wonder if Stephen originally wrote it in his native tongue,and then used a google translate or similar to then change it into English?? I don't think so. I doubt if...

['m sure we've said this before, Stephen, but your book is not at all "on the same scholarly level" as David Rudd's. David Rudd wrote his book as a university thesis (as part of a PhD, I think) and his work would have been overseen by tutors. It's evident that your book was not written un...

I have been reading the section of the anecdotage that gives a resume of the Famous Five books. The grammar and word structure made me wonder if Stephen originally wrote it in his native tongue,and then used a google translate or similar to then change it into English?? The Five also learn from Pie...

Well, so far I've said that Stephen was right in saying Australia is a continent (as well as a country), but he wasn't right in saying that Australia has always wanted to be part of Asia and that we participate in all the Asian games because we can't host our own (a bizarre assertion indeed on many...