In the 1990’s Rowan was active in the Mountain Biking scene around Johannesburg. He wrote a few articles for magazines and newspapers South African Outdoors Magazine “Fish Eagle”. Rowan wrote an article about Mountain Biking.
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News Archive – 2004 Sydney Times
Here is a newsletter Margaret and Rowan put together not long after moving to Sydney…
Windsurfing – 1980s Fanatics
This is a story about a group of fanatical windsurfers in the early days of windsurfing – the 80’s ….. Our garage was littered with half-finished projects. But one, one actually reached completion – it was a slalom windsurfing board, handmade at home – and it worked! Beautifully! This was in the early days of…
A Fairy Tale
I wrote this short story as part of my year long writing workshop taught by local author Joyce Kornblatt…… There was once a woman who had four children. They were all beautiful children, golden hair, fair skin. She would hear them laughing and playing in the forests covering the hills above the house. They loved…
Motorbike – It must have been when …
This is a story I wrote somewhere around 1999 as a submission for a local interest writing contest in the South African newspaper The Natal Witness It must have been when I was about 13 or 14. I remember saying, “These guys are USELESS! Call themselves racers – even my sister’d be better than this!”…