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“Less is More!”

By Gaynor Young on 07/11/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

I stared up at the massive painting in the kitchen. It was of a hyena. But this hyena was different. It seemed to have an odd kind of vulnerability to…

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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Music & Entertainment, Random Musings!Tagged: artist, contemporary, paintings, Peter Pharoah13 Comments
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21st Century Unicorn!

By Gaynor Young on 31/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

“Rhinos have an ancient, eternal beauty. With their massive bodies, clad in thick folds of prehistoric body armour topped by a magnificent scimitar horn, they fascinate like few other creatures…………

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: extinction, horn, image, poaching, rhinoceros3 Comments
Random Musings!

Life Saver!

By Gaynor Young on 24/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

Wouldn’t you like to be a life saver? I would and I am hoping that I can! Let me tell you what I’m speaking about….. A couple of weeks ago,…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: live saver, organ donors8 Comments
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Stitches of Love!

By Gaynor Young on 17/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

    Red and yellow and pink and green Orange and purple and blue I can sing a rainbow Sing a rainbow Sing a rainbow too……       Recently…

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Filed under: Inspirational Thoughts, SpasticityTagged: open, quilt, right hand, spastic9 Comments
Children, Family & Friends Cochlear Implant & Deafness Music & Entertainment

Uh!….Uh Uh!

By Gaynor Young on 10/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

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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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Cochlear Implant & Deafness, Music & EntertainmentTagged: determination, overseas, p-hone, slow, speak, travel, trip6 Comments
Children, Family & Friends Cochlear Implant & Deafness

The flip side of the coin!

By Gaynor Young on 03/10/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

  * “Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both heard and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be…

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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Cochlear Implant & DeafnessTagged: ci, cochlear implant, deafness, hearing6 Comments
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100!

By Gaynor Young on 26/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

This is my one hundredth blog! I can’t believe it! My friend, ‘B’, had the idea of me creating this blog. “You have lots of writing which is just clogging…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: 100, blog, post17 Comments
Children, Family & Friends Music & Entertainment

Music of the Gods!

By Gaynor Young on 19/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

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…

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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Music & EntertainmentTagged: daughter, mother, music, opera11 Comments
Children, Family & Friends Inspirational Thoughts Random Musings!

“Just chew your nails!”

By Gaynor Young on 12/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we…

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Filed under: Children, Family & Friends, Inspirational Thoughts, Random Musings!Tagged: elephants, rhino, thula thula, video2 Comments
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Shocking!

By Gaynor Young on 05/09/2014 (updated 07/07/2026)

* *** “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi *** * I am just appalled by…

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Filed under: Random Musings!Tagged: animal, cruelty, Knysna Elephant Park14 Comments

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