by Peter Knight | Jun 25, 2023 | Blog
Wildfires favour non-indigenous species – but not always. In the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa there’s a patient native of the Fynbos. Its bulbs will wait in darkness, sometimes for many years, until bushfire jump-starts germination. Or more precisely it...
by Peter Knight | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog
My late mother, a schoolteacher in rural South Africa, always carried a large knife in the glove box. We called it the Alien Killer. Driving home from school with a bunch of sweaty kids and a supportive Staffordshire Terrier she would often stop suddenly and reach...
by Peter Knight | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog
An array of sunscreen brands in the discount pharmacy dazzles with its bright packaging sparkling under spotlights. Then everything goes black as the store’s lights fail. For a foreigner this is alarming, but not to locals. They continue shopping by phone...
by Peter Knight | Feb 21, 2023 | Blog
My friend Mike Dibb has been sorting through his past. We’d worked together, moons ago, on a TV series with John Berger, About Time, and now here we are in his kitchen, prising the rusted screws of a sturdy flower press he’d made for his children some 40 years before...
by Peter Knight | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
Industrial quantities of palm oil substitute are now being made in the lab. While this is certainly good news for Orangutans and their fast-vanishing forests, are faux products like oils and plant-based meats good for us and nature? What seems good now is often found...
