by Kathy le Cordeur | Dec 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Good Neighbours Bookshop and Augustine Bookroom will both be closed from 23rd December until 6th January. Orders placed during this time will only be processed and posted/couriered when we re-open on 8th January 2018. Any urgent queries can be directed to Kathy on...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Dec 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Customers, After another sleepless night because of our neighbour’s rooster crowing from just past midnight, there is not much energy left to write any article. The only thing on my mind is the suggestion of roast chicken to my neighbour as a...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Nov 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Customers, We take great delight in watching our children and grandchildren grow up – first steps, first words, first time on a bike without fairy-wheels, first anything! We know that our children will one day master all the levels of development,...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Nov 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Customers In this 500th year of the commemoration of the Reformation, we have been inundated with books on the subject and many good ones too. As it has been 500 years since Luther nailed a few points up for discussion, there are many Luther biographies that have...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Nov 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Appreciating God’s Garden Dear Customers, We have just returned from a two-week road-trip, exploring the beauty of South Africa. The power of the Augrabies, Falls, the aridness of the Northern Cape, the majesty of folded...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Sep 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
Quote of the day Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation. ~ Thomas Watson ~ While pulling books for the Rez conference, I came across God’s Battle Plan for the Mind, The Puritan Practice of Biblical...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
We have had nothing new for ages and then everything lands at once! Our overseas shipments were all late, but when they did come in, it was all at once. And this coincided with some local orders and the processing of orders for the Rez conference. A very busy time!...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dear Customers When new customers walk into the shop, I always ask how they heard about us. It’s usually a friend or a colleague that has told them about Good Neighbours and Augustine. Word of mouth remains a very powerful advertiser. Some of these new...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
With sober judgement Newsletter 24/8/2017 Dear Customers I was reviewing a sample book that I was given about the myth of being a perfect mom. Most of us consider ourselves more highly than we ought, but a busy, exhausted mother,...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Little Seeds Newsletter 10/8/2017 Dear Customers, Last week Joey, at Augustine, shared a daily devotion with me. It is from the book Come Ye Apart by J R Miller (which we don’t have in stock, sorry). I share...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Keep checking the map Newsletter 27/7/2017 Dear Customers During our years of home education, my children and I travelled throughout Joburg, Pretoria and surrounds on various outings a to home ed. events. In those days, there were no...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Flavour of the Month … or Not Newsletter 18/7/2017 Dear Customers, We can never tell in advance what book is going to be flavour of the month. Word-of-mouth is a powerful advertiser. It takes one customer to tell a couple of...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Judgement is a good thing Newsletter 7/7/2017 Dear Customers As a church, we are busy going through the book of Isaiah with John Oswalt as our guide (he is the author of Isaiah in the NICOT...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
This and That Newsletter 14/6/2017 Dear Customers, I have just returned from a relaxing week in the bush, so writing is not going to happen at any length – my brain is still there! What a blessing to take the time...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
New Stuff Newsletter 29/5/2017 Dear Customers, Our ‘new releases’ table is overflowing with all sorts of good new stuff. So much so that we can’t feature all the pics. One usually tells a...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dying well Dear Customers A Prayer by John Calvin: Almighty God and Father, grant unto us, because we have to go through much strife in this earth, the strength of thy Holy Spirit, in order that we may courageously go through the...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Stand! Newsletter 10/5/2017 Dear Customers Imagine you were alive at the time of the Reformation and you heard that your friend had been burnt at the stake for his beliefs. What would you do? Recant? Run for cover? I’m busy reviewing an...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our King is on his throne Newsletter 6/4/2017 Dear Customers, Every time a new shipment comes in, I am delighted to note that the prices are dropping. That is about to be reversed and I want to weep! I won’t tell you what i...
by Kathy le Cordeur | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Who is the most important person in your family? Newsletter 30/3/2017 Dear Customers, I’m not much of a social media fan, bit once in a blue moon I go on to my husband’s virtually inactive facebook page to see who’s doing and...
