My father was a rugby player. He was a small boy at school but in his final year his body decided to make up for lost time. He grew to…
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If at first……..!
Creativity is a combinatorial force: it’s our ability to tap into our ‘inner’ pool of resources – knowledge, insight, information, inspiration and all the fragments populating our minds – that…
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Songs of My Heart!
“You love music. Why don’t you write this next blog on your five favourite songs?” I thought my friend’s suggestion was great, so set about picking out the five tunes…
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Monet & Me!
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana Before my fall, there were two things about myself…
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Shade and Light!
Leo Tolstoy said: “All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” I sat looking at the first garden I have ever owned and his words played…
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Pedal, Gaynor, Pedal!
“Pedal, Gaynor, pedal!” My six year old legs pumped up and down and the bicycle swerved to the left, to the right and then found it’s course and straightened out.…
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There’s no place like home!
Every year I am treated to a holiday in England I am looking so forward to this exciting ‘adventure’ which is now beginning. Leaving my home in George, there are…
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The Giver!
Bam! Bam! Kapow! Crash! Bam!Bam! Bam! Kapow! Crash! Bam!!!That was how Nathan’s musical career began.With drums!!!!! He would drum at the kitchen table when he should have been hurrying for…
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A Dance on Paper!
Threshold A child sitting on steps looking out. I just adore this work of Margi Larlham’s. It was created from a photo of her when she was much younger. It…
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A Tap on my Shoulder!
I was sitting at the Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town with B, when suddenly I was tapped. I swung around to be met by a dark mopped stranger with this…
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