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VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR
Well, maybe not quite! I meant to draw a comparison with the way computers have almost totally eradicated the Bank Clerk. We have not...
Sep 15, 202110 min read
LEPORINE MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY
ROCKY We had not thought about keeping bunnies as pets, as our dogs and birds were excellent company. However, Pearly, the lady who used...
Sep 9, 20217 min read
AVIAN MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY
BUDGIES When my wife first moved to Port Elizabeth, before we were married, she took with her a green budgie called Joey. He was quite...
Sep 8, 202112 min read
Aug 30, 20210 min read
THINA (SCOOTY) IN PICTURES
NOTE : All these photographs are courtesy of my sister Pat Clark, now in New Zealand.
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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Aug 29, 20210 min read
CANINE MEMBERS OF OUR FAMILY
THIKA Sonja, my wife and I had no kids together and her daughter Debbie was grown-up by the time we married. We soon found that we really...
Aug 26, 202115 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 4)
RANDOM NOTES I’ve always been a stickler for being on time. I would have been horrified if I had ever been late for school so my staff...
Aug 22, 20215 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 3)
RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION Something that amazed me at Sterkspruit was the number of churches and sects which had proliferated in the...
Aug 22, 20218 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 2)
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES I have my fair share of regrets and not least among these is the fact that I did not learn a black language such as...
Aug 22, 20216 min read
CULTURE SHOCK (Part 1)
JACOB MOTSAMAI MAKHOBOKOANE In late 1967 I was working as an agency teller at Phillippolis. About six months into the job, a call from...
Aug 22, 202111 min read
JACK AND THE HEART ATTACK
Henry Jacquire was my friend and fellow accountant in the little town of Lady Grey, some 60 km from Sterkspruit. “Jack” as we called him,...
Aug 21, 20214 min read
MY DEAR WIFE, THE BLONDE!
My dear wife of 30 years, Sonja, is an intelligent, loveable and fun person. You are very hard to please if you don’t take to this super...
Aug 7, 20218 min read
ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE
English is by far the most useful tool in my toolbox and I count myself as very fortunate to be able to speak and write it reasonably...
Jul 31, 202111 min read
THE GREAT ORANGE RIVER TUBE RACE
In August 1968, Sterkspruit trader Jimmy Mather, in order to raise funds for his favourite charity, the Red Cross, decided to arrange a...
Jul 28, 20216 min read
JOHN THE AGNOSTIC
WARNING : If beliefs contrary to your own offend you, please refrain from reading the following. I will NOT enter into any debate about...
Jul 26, 202111 min read
WE LOVED RADIO
Elsewhere I have touched on the central position radio occupied in our early lives. Without television and with just a smattering of...
Jul 15, 20216 min read
MY SCIENCE FICTION ADDICTION
Throughout my life, my two main interests were music and Science Fiction. I was a keen reader of just about anything from an early age...
Jul 14, 20215 min read
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