I Dread This Time of the Year
I spend most of my time weeping. Why? Because of the past, forgotten glory of South Africa, and about how my dying husband came to be treated as a consequence. Jan Christiaan Smuts It breaks my heart...
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South Africa’s Role in WW2 Has been Redeemed! A few weeks ago, depressed as I have for so many years become at the approach of November 11, I published an article here on Blogcritics because I was...
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Reading a Diary Begun in 1900 What a gift it was when someone discovered and sent me my father’s ‘Boer War Diary!’ A book written by a friend who is mentioned in the diary shown below, was published...
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Voice from the Past: A Diary of the Second Boer War
Reading My Father’s Boer War Diary Dated 1900 Those who have done me the honor of reading my articles in the past, must have noticed how often they have been about my father – which is strange, since...
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May Is International Hemochromatosis Awareness Month
What is Hemochromatosis (also spelled Haemochromatosis)? Studies have shown that hemochromatosis is the most common genetic or “inherited” disorder, while, paradoxically, it is the one that is most...
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I Sense a Plot-Physically, Mentally and Psychologically. Ice Hockey Okay, I’ve written often enough about how (poor me!) I’m house-bound, and how I have to use a voice-recognition device to be able to...
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Talking About Tea Evokes Many Happy Memories
Visits to Chelsea Flower Show, Buckingham Palace Garden Parties, and Cadby Hall, Among Many Other Privileges May is “International Hemochromatosis Month,” and, as it draws to a close, there is much...
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Two Journalists, an International Idol, My Father, and a Very Handsome Lad...
Five Men Who Shaped My Life, Whether They Knew It or Not The Editor First of all there was William Hills, at 80, South Africa’s “Grand Old Man of Journalism,” who succumbed to my pleas to give me a job...
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Things My Mother Taught Me (Though I Never LIstened)
An Epiphany On the 3rd of May, 2003, I noted in my “Daily Light”, a little book which, unless I was unconscious or having a baby, I have read day and night since I was 13: “Today, 20 years ago my...
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Among My Dearest Friends Since Childhood: The Natural Order of Lepidoptera
“Butterfly tell me, pray, what you do all the day…” Perhaps it started when we sang that song in Kindergarten, many years ago, and I cannot remember a time when I was not ‘hooked’ on butterflies. My...
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Movie Memories of Long Ago
Because of My Father I’ve Been a Movie Buff Since I Was Four He was a very ‘outgoing’ man (which, Google tells us, means ‘not shy or afraid of trying new things’), a great musician (always in demand),...
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PTSD Blues: The Angola Conflict
Ever since watching a CBC special on post-traumatic stress disorder, my mind has been filled with thoughts of family members who have lived through wars, and I realized, for instance, that my father...
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A VOICE FROM THE PAST Reading a Diary Begun in 1900 What a gift it was when someone discovered and sent me my father’s ‘Boer War Diary!’ A book written by a friend who is mentioned in the diary shown...
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Voice from the Past: A Diary of the Second Boer War
Reading My Father’s Boer War Diary Dated 1900 Those who have done me the honor of reading my articles in the past, must have noticed how often they have been about my father – which is strange, since...
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May Is International Hemochromatosis Awareness Month
What is Hemochromatosis (also spelled Haemochromatosis)? Studies have shown that hemochromatosis is the most common genetic or “inherited” disorder, while, paradoxically, it is the one that is most...
View ArticleHelp! I Think I’m Being Scammed
I Sense a Plot-Physically, Mentally and Psychologically. Ice Hockey Okay, I’ve written often enough about how (poor me!) I’m house-bound, and how I have to use a voice-recognition device to be able to...
View ArticleA Voice From The Past.
A VOICE FROM THE PAST Reading a Diary Begun in 1900 What a gift it was when someone discovered and sent me my father’s ‘Boer War Diary!’ A book written by a friend who is mentioned in the diary shown...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Voice from the Past: A Diary of the Second Boer War
Reading My Father’s Boer War Diary Dated 1900 Those who have done me the honor of reading my articles in the past, must have noticed how often they have been about my father – which is strange, since...
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May Is International Hemochromatosis Awareness Month
What is Hemochromatosis (also spelled Haemochromatosis)? Studies have shown that hemochromatosis is the most common genetic or “inherited” disorder, while, paradoxically, it is the one that is most...
View ArticleHelp! I Think I’m Being Scammed
I Sense a Plot-Physically, Mentally and Psychologically. Ice Hockey Okay, I’ve written often enough about how (poor me!) I’m house-bound, and how I have to use a voice-recognition device to be able to...
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