Category Archives: Autobiography

Nuts and bolts

The nuts and bolts of things aren’t supposed to be as pretty as this:

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Stepping out from behind the books

Visitors might have noticed the lack of photos of me on my website. So, to satisfy curiosity, a brave move: I step out from behind the posts, my books and the bookcases and present me to you. While I am … Continue reading

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Romantic pastime?

The view from the kitchen into the train room on a spring night. A sweet picture of total immersion. Peter is servicing a loco. He is choofed with life.

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1,2,3,here we go

Following the red threads squiggling all across the map, digging up dirt, unearthing snips of succulents, ostrich shell beads on a string. What does this mean? It means that we are on our way again on a two and a … Continue reading

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Pretty shards

  Unearthed from playing fields-in-the-making on dog walks…

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Who’s a scaredy-cat?

  I need to remind myself every day to BE BOLD. From: ‘Am I a lion that eats people?’  2004 ELRU publication about HIV/Aids photographs by Enver Essop with painted elements by Reviva Schermbrucker

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A home is a house

The houses we sequentially lived in and rented in my under-teens were all in Yeoville; their street names rhyme with an internal GPS, coordinates that hit solid bodies in my galaxy, sounding off resonating booms and squeaks through space and … Continue reading

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Paddas, Pofaddertjies and Puddles

photo: Sue Kramer When the bridge flooded between Arniston and Bredasdorp everybody drove out to have a look. Sheets of water lay on the dry scrubby renosterveld on all sides creating unlikely vistas of endless lakes. Puffadders (dead) lay strewn … Continue reading

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Mavis Mogotsi

In a week where there was one big death, there was another that did not get a trillionth of the attention but was big for us. Mavis Mogotsi, grandmother to Charlie Tankie Mogotsi  and mother to Christine Mogotsi, was a … Continue reading

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Revisiting the source: Yeoville book

The next three books in the CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA series are going to be South African and the first of the three is done: THOBEKA AND SAMUKELO, THEIR LIFE IN YEOVILLE, SOUTH AFRICA. It was a no-brainer to choose … Continue reading

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