Crawling is the Journey
I was asked some time back: If life had taken you a different route, what would you rather be. I am one of those people who make light of most situations, so my flippant answer was that I would have loved to have been the widow of a very wealthy man. Which of course I […]
Isn’t it funny how one misses the things you are used to when you are no longer around them? Even the ones you do not like. Like viennas. Vienna sausages must surely be the most deliciously vile things you will ever come across. But ask a South African living abroad, and their shopping list will […]
Chris de Burgh always has been one of my favourite song mates. Apart from one song, which I will get to, there is probably not a song of his I do not like. It is not just his music. To me, it was that at a time when people were singing about Love Train and […]
A-ha, that oh so well know band from the 1980’s sang the song Crying in the Rain. It is a song about love-sickness. It is about finding a way to get over a breakup. I have been doing my fair share of crying in the rain this past week. No, I am not lovesick and […]
Do you remember the 1989 film: Shirley Valentine? In it, the middle-aged Shirley decides one happy day that she has had enough. Her life is boring. Her family do not appreciate her. Her life is in a rut. I can go on, but you get the picture, right? Then, out of the blue she finds […]