The girl was very little, just five years old. Her grandfather, to whom she turned for information on every possible subject, was very old. Terribly old, she thought. He was probably the oldest man in the world. In fact, he was sixty years old. He had lived twelve times as
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Christmas is over. Thank heavens. Now the local shopping should stop, or at least ease off. Is Christmas shopping so bad? Well, yes, in the plotlands it can be very bad. A fever seems to sweep through the criminal community here. They are clearly believers in celebrating Christmas. I have
The start of the hostilities can be traced back to an absence of shade on our terrace. Miriam was determined that we should have shade and that it should be of the natural sort, provided by the leaves and branches of a tree. Accordingly, she set about acquiring a leopard
Where I live, on a small holding north of Pretoria, when people think about the new year, they often ponder the levels of crime that have plagued the past one. And our crime levels are absurdly high. Last night, in the adjoining plot lands, we had four break-ins and two