The thing is to love life to love it even when you have no stomach for it, when everything you held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands and…
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‘Girls need not wear pink!’
I stared at the photograph on Jan’s fridge. It was of a man dragging a woman across the floor by her arm. “That’s from Porgy and Bess,” she said, “Amusing,…
Read More“This Royal Throne of Kings!”
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and…
Read MoreTake the Plunge!
“Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself” Debbie Meyer I would never have imagined how important technology, computing, the internet and Social Media would become in…
Read MoreTick…..Tock…!
TICK…TOCK…TICK…TOCK…TICK… You can’t speed up or slow down time. It just carries moving regardless, relentlessly pressing on…and on…and on… TICK…TOCK…TICK…TOCK…TICK… I have just spent a blissful night with the…
Read MoreSpar’s Child!
Because of my accident, I have only 40% eyesight and no depth of field awareness so I am unable to drive. I walk everywhere. To my unutterable delight, my…
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 MoreThe Gardener’s Smile!
“For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun Our gardener, George,…
Read MoreThe Drongo Whisperer!
When Mum’s cat died we were dreadfully sad. He was eighteen years old and was much loved. Then the most amazing thing began to happen. The birds came back to…
Read MoreShame!
I was recently sent an article by a friend. It instantly caught my attention because it was about Oscar Pistorius. And like most people, I am drawn to that tragedy.…
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