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Category Archives: Education
Mozambique. Paradise lost.
Mozambique. Paradise lost. Is just my short recollection of the many splendid holidays I had there at the holiday resort Beira, which like most things in Africa, now no longer exists as we knew it anyway. How dreadfully sad. Of … Continue reading
Growing up in Norton;Neil.
Growing up in Norton;Neil. Is just something I have been meaning to write about for a long, long, time now but haven’t for reasons which you will realise later in the post. Now Neil Wrench was two years older than me … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture & Society, Education, Family, Family and Relationships, Farming, Hobbies, Games & Toys, Parenting, Schooldays
Tagged commercial farming, cricket, cricket tours, cricketer, Hartley Junior tennis championships, Lowveld Country Districts cricket, Mashonaland country districts cricket, Norton, Norton Country club, tennis
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Growing up in Norton; Continued.
Growing up in Norton; Continued. Is just a short story of my early life in the small farming community of Norton in the then Rhodesia. So many names and such good fun. Riley’s and Wrench’s, Moor’s and Bryson’s, Dobson’s and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture & Society, Education, Family, Family and Relationships, Farming, Healthy Living, Hobbies, Games & Toys, Kids, Parenting, Poetry & Writing, Relationships & Family, Sports & Recreation
Tagged cattle, Country clubs, farming, Hartley, Hartley Junior tennis championships, irrigation, maize, Norton, Norton Country club, Rhodesia, soya beans, tennis, tobacco, wheat
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Growing up in Norton.
Growing up in Norton. Now it was a long time ago, but at the time it was an idyllic time in our country which was known as Rhodesia. Where do I begin to tell the story, the sweet love story … Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Society, Education, Family, Family and Relationships, Farming, Healthy Living, Parenting, Poetry & Writing, Politics, Schooldays, Travel, Travel & Places
Tagged commercial farming, farming, Farms, Finance, Josiah tongarara, Knighthood, Norton, politics, Rhodesia, Rhodesian African Rifles, Robert Mugabe, War, Zimbabwe
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Gibraltar.
Gibraltar. A visit there with the family on our trip to Spain. It’s a strange old world in the end because although I had an excellent education, and came from an Old Colonial country. I always thought that Gibraltar was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Poetry & Writing, Culture & Society, Education, Family, Family and Relationships, Food & Cooking, Holidays & Celebrations, Parenting, Kids, Family, Poetry & Writing, Politics, Relationships & Family, Travel, Travel & Places
Tagged education, Gibraltar, Islands, Marbella, Mediterranean, rock, rock of Gibraltar, Spain, Winston Churchill
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Billy and Flash, Flash and Billy.
Billy and Flash, Flash and Billy, two of the loveliest blokes one could ever meet. I first met these two lads whilst at Gwebi Agricultural College, sometimes known as College of Knowledge while studying for my agricultural diploma. Without a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Poetry & Writing, Business & Work, Culture & Society, Education, Family and Relationships, Farming, Politics, Relationships & Family, Sports & Recreation, Topics, Uncategorized
Tagged agricultural college, agricultural colleges, agriculture, Colin Bland, commercial farming, cricket, cricket legends, cultural differences, Gwebi Agricultural College, hard of hearing, honesty, humour, lip reading, mental health, Rod McKuen, sports
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Another Graduation, Done and dusted.
Another Graduation, Done and dusted, just a short story of my youngest daughter’s graduation at University College Dublin. The immense pride, the beautiful setting here in the grand old land of the green. Now my wife and I live in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Society, Education, Family and Relationships, Relationships & Family, Uncategorized
Tagged Aviva Stadium, Clonakilty, County Cork, doctors, Dustin Hoffman, Graduation, James Joyce, nurses, Nursing, Saint Vincents Hospital, Sandymount hotel, Simon and Garfunkel, The Graduate, University College Dublin
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Gwebi Agricultural College, part 1.
Very brief epistle of my college days. Unquestionably one of the highlights of my life, and I’m very apprehensive that I will not be able to give it the justice it deserves. The college was situated a very short drive … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Poetry & Writing, Business & Work, Culture & Society, Education, Farming, Uncategorized
Tagged agriculture, animal husbandry, blog posts, Characters, College, College of Knowledge, commercial farming, cricket, cultural differences, deaf, engineering, english, ethics, farm management, field husbandry, humour, rambling blog posts
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Katrina, a Tsunami of Humans.
Katrina, a Tsunami of Humans is just a film I saw in my last year at Plumtree School which had a profound and everlasting effect on moulding whatever character I have. It began when I was selected to tour South … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Poetry & Writing, Culture & Society, Education, Entertainment & Media, Family and Relationships, Music, Relationships & Family, Schooldays, Topics, Travel, Travel & Places
Tagged apartheid, Beira, Botswana, films, Katrina, Mozambique, Plumtree School, Port Elisabeth, railway stations, Rhodesia, South Africa, trains, tsunami
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Lively lads, Grey House, Plumtree School 3.
Lively lads, Grey House, Plumtree School 3, and the continuing saga of Rusty of a Drysdale of and Spook’s drinking escapade. So we make it to the dining hall unspotted by any prefect or master who would betray us to … Continue reading
Posted in Culture & Society, Education, Family and Relationships, Parenting, Kids, Family, Schooldays, Sports & Recreation, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, Characters, cricket, cultural differences, english, English teachers, ethics, farming, Grey House, humour, lively lads, Plumtree, Plumtree School, South Africa, writing, Zimbabwe
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