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Do go to Mkhuze Game Reserve, it s a magic place. Especially if it s good birding, not boring efficiency, that you re after. Forget electricity, hot water, lights and routine old stuff you can get at home, go n camp, have fun and see great birds. So the good stuff is, 1. Mkhuze itself; 2. The sand forest; Continue reading Mkhuze Magic
email to Barbs Rip Kirby Sent: 22 March 2019 10:18 PM Subject: Chirpy wisdom I suddenly had a clear moment in my fuzzy brain and thought of two things from way back when. And I thought I must tell the Chirpies! So here are the two stories I wrote down, good people: Story 1: Continue reading Child- and Adult-Rearing Tips
First an intermittent sheesh sheesh. Not ominous. Searched all under but nothing. Then the ominous clunk under the left front. Feels likes it s under me Daddy, says Jess in the passenger seat. Damn!
Mother Mary says when was little I asked her to play Nekkos from Afar on the piano Funiculi Funicula I did not tell Mom the version I was taught decades later by my mate Brauer I m polite that way. ~~oo0oo~~
Miss you. We still talk about you. You’d have lots to do if you were here now!
I refuse to speak at my younger sister Sheila s 70th opskop. I won t do it. I just learned this week from Mother Mary, 97, that she abandoned me to the care of Great Granny Bland just so she could go off and give birth to Sheila! Rattled, I am. This might explain so much ~~oo0oo~~ Continue reading Abandoned!
Me and Freddie Mercury! I do so luvvit when my little fondly-held prejudices and pet theories get supporting evidence. Course when evidence goes against me I huff n puff, duck n dive. Remember when drinking red wine made you live longer? And when just a little occasional mild exercise was best, and any more you Continue reading I m Gonna Live forEVAH!
In 1926 Kruger Park was declared a national park. Some areas in the south had already been protected since 1898. Kruger the politician gets credit, and the park was named after him, but we mustn t forget the prime conservationists of Africa s wild spaces: The tsetse fly and the mosquito. If it wasn t for them we d Continue reading Kruger Centenary
So the Donkey Damage is fully repaired; the bakkie is immaculate. Perfect. Better than the latest all-electric Papal Ferrari. Now insurance wants a full 100-point check. Oh boy and liewe bliksem. The technicians find a dozen things wrong due to Old Age, not donkey-related. Unfair to put an 18yr-old Ford through such stress! They found Continue reading Olifants
Quite one of the best game drives I have ever been on! We headed for Red Rocks, a place where the sandy Shongweni riverbed is cut by a different geological layer resulting in an impressive cataract / waterfall. To get back to camp we had two options: Back the way we d come with a wall Continue reading Outstanding!