This morning after I spoke to my daughter on the phone and to my grandson (the phone was on speakerphone) I suddenly realized how things have changed over the years. It is very true that time waits for non-one! It suddenly dawned on me that I am racing at a head-spinning speed towards 70! By […]
Christmas then and now
January 21, 2014 by 2 Comments
Christmas then and now THEN: Christmas was family time, a time when we would get together at our home “190” in Pietermaritzburg and have one very big celebration. Family and friends would come from near and far to join in the festivities. I remember how Gran, Mom and our aunts, cousins would get together in […]
An Ordinary School Day
December 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
One of my biggest problems I had to face when I attended school was the lack of time to do everything I wished and needed to do. I never seemed to find time to do my homework no matter all my good intentions. During the day I was very busy because until 3 o’clock I […]
All That Shines is Not Gold
November 22, 2013 by 3 Comments
When we moved to Pietermaritzburg my father thought that the college was a good school for me. I was seven years old when I went to a private college in that city, in which it was possible to attend all your school life. That means from class one to standard 10 (grade 1 to grade […]
Is This Sailing?
October 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
One day Bugs invited me to go with him to Midmar Dam to try out his new sailing boat he had bought a few days before. This boat was white and bright blue, made of fiberglass material and therefore unsinkable. It was very small, there was space for three people only. Early one Sunday morning, […]
Go-Kart
October 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When as young boys we used to spend whole afternoons playing it sometimes happened that after having read all the comic books we could lay our hands on, or having raced with our electric cars and playing flick-board, we didn’t know what else to do to spend our time. One day after having done all […]
The Terror of Snakes
September 16, 2013 by 1 Comment
During the second year that we were in South Africa we finally found and moved to a house in Merrivale, a place not far from Howick, where there were green maize fields all around. Before this we had been living in a hotel. The dwelling wasn’t just an ordinary house but it was a “Rondavel”. […]
The Rabbits’ Revenge
September 6, 2013 by 1 Comment
A long time ago, in the center of Pietermaritzburg, not far away from my house, there was a big general market where besides fresh fruit and vegetables, they also sold small animals like pigeons and rabbits. One early morning my dad and I decided to go and have a look at this market without the […]
Shooting Animals
August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Once a school friend invited me to spend the Christmas vacation with him and his family, because they were going to visit one of the most beautiful game reserve parks which is on the border with Mozambique, the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. I looked forward with great pleasure to this new event, not only because […]
The Iron Boat
July 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
When I lived in SA there was one of my dad’s friends, who was also my godfather, who worked in a quarry. His job was to maintain the machines used to crush big rocks into small gravel needed for making roads. He must have had lots of spare time because often you could find him […]
I got my inspiration for this website from the song called “Imagine”, and so I decided to go on this adventure. I have always wanted to put up something like this where my friends and I could express our memories and dreams for the future. Share them with us, because if many people dream the same dream it will certainly come true.