There are thousands of poems, stories and notes written on the Web regarding friendships. I read them and they resonate with me, but today I thought I would rather write my own version of what friendship means to me.
Continue readingUpdate Sunday 2 October 2022
Grief…
How does grief actually affect one? When I was young, the thought of losing a parent terrified me.
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Continue readingUpdate Saturday 1 October 2022
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Last night I never slept…
Well that is not entirely true. I was deadly tired by 19:00 and it was about this same time that the occupants of the house in front of our block decided to crank up their music.
Continue readingSunday 21 August 2022
Thank you Jan Brink for this article….
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝘀 NOT 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 — 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀.
Update Tuesday 20 September 2022
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The photo I have chosen for tonight was taken in 1893….
This was the year that my Grandmother, Ella Bowker, was born. She was my stalwart role model for most of my childhood and well into my late teens. She was kindness. She was someone who shared my family home from 1959 when my grand dad died in Warner Beach after he retired from working on the electricity pylons around South Africa until she died in 1981.
Update Friday 16 September 2022
I must have been about 6 years old when I first discovered that time was fluid, sometimes it would seem to take forever and other times it sped up so fast…
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What a wonderful idea
Brent Lindeque, South Africa’s Good Things Guy…
Continue readingUpdate Tuesday 13 September 2022
I am starting this blog trying to explain what you need to do to see my blog. In Facebook you will see a photo graph with the words below giving the Update Tuesday 13 September written below is. To see the whole blog just click on the Update wording and you will be able to read the whole blog.
Continue readingUpdate Saturday 10 September 2022
I just love this photo of little children. Apparently, it is on Shamian Island in Guangzhou, China and is a popular place for adoptive parents to take photos of their new acquisitions, before taking them home to their new land.
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Continue readingUpdate Friday 9 September 2022
The younger generation will not know this, but when I was a little girl and went to the local bioscope, as we called the cinema in those days, it was customary for us to actually stand at some point in the proceedings when the “God Save the Queen” anthem would be played.
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