Category: Humour
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Every Dog Has His Day…..
“Every Dog has his Day and every Bitch – Two Afternoons.” (American Proverb) There was once a dog, call “Dog” and his mate called “Bitch”. They lived in a comfortable suburban home with their owners. Every day started with a bowl of dog food porridge and every day ended with a bowl of
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What Land Belongs to Who….?
In May 2015 Thomas Beddy responded to a comment by our then President Jacob Zuma on Facebook. In the run-up to our next general election, like most countries in the world, hot headed politicians are, in one form or another, broadcasting all manner of gross exaggerations to the their followers and the electorate in general.
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Saint Pinard
Saint Pinard I recall some years ago a conversation I had with a French family, concerning my origins. At the time it raised much mirth among them resulting in the only member of the family, who could speak English, confiding in me. “Peter” he said, “This name, Pinard is a beet of a
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The Gravy Train – Part Two

I finished off Part One, last week with this statement: How do you make your lap available? It’s a very simple process called, ‘looking for opportunities’. Once you embark on this process, you will be nothing short of astounded by the amount of opportunities that cross your path, almost every second of the day.
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The Gravy Train

You and I are living in one of the most exciting ages in history. Do you agree with this statement and does it excite you? This is the age of discovery – discovery in almost every dimension of our daily lives. Science, anthropology, the human mind, medicine, human behavioral science, earth and environmental science, mechanical
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Decisions, Decisions.

Vanilla ice cream or chocolate cake? Close your eyes take a deep breath and just pick one. Go with your heart, rely on your gut. It’s really not that hard. I mean for me of course I would have chosen a slice of chocolate cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side,
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Syvia Rose’s Story – Important Notice

Important Notice For those of you following this series – thank you and I hope you are benefiting from the content. This series will go onto a monthly basis as from Saturday September 1st. 2018. If you have not read any of the series go to Part One. Many thanks to you all and please
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The Hundred-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared.

“The violently burning tanker now drifted along the edge of the quay towards the center of the town. During this last journey, it set fire to all the houses along its route, a distance of 2.2 Kilometers. The wind was coming from the South-East that day, so it didn’t take more than twenty-five minutes before,
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Sylvia Rose’s Story – Part Seven

The UAE was never ready for me When the ‘almost husband’ invited me to come and spend Christmas with him in the UAE I was ecstatic. Firstly because I have never traveled abroad. I know right, 46, and never traveled internationally! But the main reason was that I would get to spend five whole weeks
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Opportunity

Every single day, in so many ways, opportunities cross our path. Each time an opportunity happens to reveal itself you have (you guessed it) two choices. You take the opportunity and run with it. You let it pass you by.