I loved speaking on the phone. I used to finish my homework and then I would be on the phone to Alex, Michelle, Angie or Deidre! Mum used to get…
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Music of the Gods!
I am going to speak about something that is incredibly precious to me. Music! What makes this so exciting is that the music involved is an opera. An…
Read MoreThe old Lie!
(Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori) On the evening that B and I had planned to spend with Janet Suzman in London, she told us that unfortunately she would…
Read MoreOn the Crest of a Wave!
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a…
Read MoreSinking Sands!
I placed my foot with sheer terror on what I perceived to be a shifting and sliding mass of gulping sinking sand. To my utter surprise I found that I…
Read MoreThe Loved One!
PJ Powers is one of the biggest singing sensations in South Africa. I met Penelope twenty four years ago, just after my accident. Let…
Read MoreSlippery Fish!
“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” …
Read MoreMadiba Magic!
“Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, “Oh, I wish I could knit, but I’m just not the kind of person who…
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Just Joan!
“Misty, water coloured memories of the way we were…..” Memories. That is how a person lives on once they have left this…
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Books, books, glorious books!
You might think blogging is simply a matter of writing good articles. Oh no, believe you me, there is more to it than that.…
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