I am not lonely living here in Thailand.In fact I have already found a really true friend. He is rather shy,so he doesn’t like to be around much during the day,but as soon as it gets dark,which is about sixish he visits me. I call him Alexander. He doesn’t dare to come into my apartment,but [...]
I lost my heart again last night. He stood,just a few feet in front of me,dressed in black,plucked his guitar and said, rather than sang in a voice that left no woman doubting that this was a real man; “Take the ribbon from your hair” Kris Kristofferson,the All American Rebel,sang at the Zürich Summer Festival,”Live [...]
” Break,break,break, On thy cold grey stones. Oh Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me” Alfred,Lord Tennyson. 1809-1892. I suppose it is because I was born under Pisces that I have an affinity with the sea. I do in fact compare my life to it. The ups [...]
Hera is calling, and we will return, Bound with her twine, long faded by Aegean light. Where blue meets blue she stands and beckons us home. Two kindred souls, Mortals yearning for her ethereal world. Not daunted by passing time In foreign lands both grey and cold . The echo of her laughter is heard [...]
As regular readers of my blog know I struggle with my watercolour painting. I now have a new inspiration. My Idol of the sixties. The bad boy, the music maker, the singer, the poet, that particular spirit of those years also paints in watercolour! The German press agency report that the art collection of the [...]
I love Poetry,but I can’t write it. I might possibly be able to turn out some third rate crime or love story but lines like; “The sedge has withered from the lake, and no birds sing.” Impossible. I ask myself why I find prose so much easier? The answer is, maybe one has to be [...]
My Sarie Marais is so far from my heart, and I’m longing to see her again. She lived on a farm on Mooi’s River bank, before I left on this campaign Oh,bring me back to the old Transvaal That’s where I want to be, Way yonder ‘mongst the meelies (Corn),by that great thorny tree, Sarie [...]
To all and sundry near and far F. Christmas in particular. “I want some crackers and I want some candy, I think a box of chocolates would come in handy. I dont mind oranges, I do like nuts, And I should like a pocket knife that really cuts. from” King John’s [...]
They’re changing guards at Buckingham Palace, Christopher Robin went down with Alice, Alice is marrying one of the guards; “A soldier’s life is terribly hard” Says Alice. A.A.Milne Since this was read to me as a child I was always in awe of the Guards.Foot Guards or Horse Guards they were all the same to [...]
Would you all say I was a little mad that after my ‘coming of age’ on the 19th 0f March-(and its not my 21 st Birhday,but the day on which I never have to work again) I might consider packing a rucksack and getting myself on a flight to somewhere in Asia. Yes, I do [...]
