Hi All I’m quite sure most of you folks have told a few White Lies in your lifetime. Did I hear you think “Not Me?” They are mostly told about inconsequential matters to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Real lies, on the other hand, are intended to deceive and most times cause major problems. The storyline in […]
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Hi All It was so rewarding to see so many entries to our August Short story competition – 182 in total! Split evenly amongst the 3 age groups. It has taken us a long time to sift through them all working out which ones had merit or showed a latent talent for writing. I can
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Hi All Croco Motors does a lot of advertising with us in both the Nzira Travel Magazine and the daily Bambazonke Nhasi emails. We have also produced a 48-page hard copy Croco Magazine that was placed in their showrooms. Croco Motors are the Ford dealers in Zimbabwe, and they asked me to represent Zimbabwe at the
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Hi All School term starts again on Tuesday and that means it’s time for the next Social Bowls league that Scotty Fraser has set up at Highlands Sports Club. The whole idea is to introduce people (of all ages) to the sport in a fun way with participants able to smoke or drink whilst playing
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Hi All There’s a well-known adage that some folks are just “Born Story Tellers”. I’m not sure, though, that this statement is completely true. After all, everyone has a story to tell: Exhibitionists like to stand on a soapbox in places like London’s Hyde Park shouting out “hear ye, hear ye”; big drinkers relate their narrative down
Hi All, I drove down to Mutare last Friday to join 32 other players in the annual Goldberg Bowls tournament – it’s been a long time since they’ve had so many competitors. The standard of play was high and very competitive – lots of fun and comradery. Eleven teams played a Round-Robin of 2 wood trips all day Saturday
Hi All My late father was captain of his local Deeside Cycling club in Aberdeen way back in the late 1940s so we spent many a Saturday morning sitting beside him as he tried to explain to us four youngsters, the best way to fix a cycle chain or repair a puncture. When we first moved back
HI All The flight back from Brisbane via Dubai is a long one taking over 30 hours from door to door. However, Emirates has some of the more modern planes around with comfortable seating and excellent staff to cater for all your basic flying needs. Very little jetlag this time around. It doesn’t take long for returnees
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Hi All I’ve written often, in the past, about how I like to plan my holidays around a major participatory sporting event. My youngest granddaughter, Hailey, is being christened here, in Brisbane, at the end of the month so I ended up competing in the Cairns Ironman 70.3 half ironman for a second time last
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Hi All I flew down to Sydney this morning to spend time with my younger daughter and was duly picked up from the airport wondering what she and her partner had in store for us to do today. Well, Dad, she responded, we are going to spend the morning touring all the leading bookstores in
