My Mum sang as she danced. “One, two, three, one two three, one two three….” She glided across the lawn waving a handkerchief in her hand. “And now, you take…
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Foxy Fun!
My parents ‘had a farm in Africa at the foot of the….’ Outeniqua Mountains! I look at photographs from that time and I smile. These were city people who began…
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A Light at the End of the Tunnel!
“If you caught a glimpse of Heaven, would you choose to come back to life?” Judy Bachrach We all have one thing in common. We die. When I had my…
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A little bit Wonki!
In the past, on every girls wedding present list was a famed dinner service – Wedgwood, Crown Derby, Minton, to name but a few. This treasured wedding present was then…
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Worlds within Worlds!
There are so many differing worlds within our world. There is the world on ground. The world from above. The world beneath the water. I will tell you how I…
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The Best Laid Plans!
I had a brainwave! My friend, B, was going up to Johannesburg on the 14th because her flight departed from O.R. Tambo Airport on the 15th. Why not fly up…
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Bus Charades!
At long last the buses have arrived in George! Due to a nasty fall, when her femur was fractured, my Mum is still unable to drive. My friend, B, has…
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Shock Boxes!
If it wasn’t for Bart Fouche I wouldn’t be alive! As the understudy in Camelot, I was called upon to take over the role of Guinevere without a dress or a…
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Reconnections!
Why is it that no matter how old we are, we still refer to our teachers by their surname?! Thirty-five years after leaving my school, Brescia House, I met up…
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And the seagull’s name was…….
A long time ago in ’67 A little boy was roaming on the beach, When all of a sudden he heard a plaintive cry, So near yet so far out…
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