Through many scratches and lots of sweat, I learnt something a long time ago.Let me explain… I grew up on a banana plantation where my whole family was used to plenty of physical work. Each year we passed through several months, sometimes longer of extreme fire...
When you have made the discovery, you’re speechless. The realization of this silent terror, happening right ‘under your nose’, brings disbelief and a sinking feeling in the stomach.It was Easter time and my wife and I were in ‘clean up mode’. The task at hand was to...
Let me give you a shortened version of a rather long story. As a child I had the privilege of growing up working every weekend in our family’s banana plantation. We all worked very hard, but when we (the children) were young we laboured in the morning and then in the...
In the year leading up to my marriage to my wife we chose to spend our time apart and establish our careers. This meant living a thousand kilometers apart, meaning plenty of phone calls, plane flights and all-night drives to see the one I loved.I can particularly...