After reading a while I switched off the light and looked out the window at the dark sky. The moon was a sliver against the blackness and only two stars shone down from a featureless map. Nothing else, just a fraction of moon and two stars.I closed my eyes wishing I...
It is a tough call to own a motor car that runs on LP gas instead of on conventional petrol. If has advantages but the serious downside is that if you run out of fuel you are stuck. You can’t borrow a litre or two from a passing motorist or walk down to the nearest...
Meticulously I prepared the meal and there was a lot of preparing to do: washing and peeling vegetables, flavouring and seasoning the main dish, timing and controlling the cooking.Then when it was ready to my satisfaction, I arranged the food on the plates,...
Grandma discovered a very great sermon.Her little grandson was watching her make biscuits. On each biscuit she put a face. She put a sultana for each eye and three sultanas for a smiling mouth.When the biscuits were baked, they looked like a tray of little faces just...
When Time, relentless, marches onThen Love, relentless, counts the years.When Time expunges all that’s past,Then Love reduces scars to tears.When time, relentless, rips things downThen Love, relentless, holds them still.When Time releases every holdThen Love...
The computer expert called in to install a new program on the computer for my husband’s astro-photography. He set it up and pressed some keys and chatted to us while the computer did its own mysterious thing.At the end of the exercise my husband had a whole new...
Where I grew up, our only water supply was rainwater that ran off the roof of the house. It ran into a deep well about 30 metres away and it was our lifeline. Without it, we could not survive.Old hands who had lived in the area a long time spoke almost reverently of...