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Runaway!

At 7 I ran away from home to find my purpose in life and by 11am I was home, starving. No one had even missed me. When I asked 'them' where they thought I was, ...

The H word!

I love WORDS, https://i.postimg.cc/cCcL59dv/words-hand.png Pixabay Spoken, written, whispered, sung or shouted....... They take me by the hand into vast tracts ...

Fire! Live or Die?

Liz, Nicko and Philippa, new friends of the Survivors' Club trio were delighted to be invited to lunch by Wil. Wil, his fiance Vi and their best friend Lila had...

STORM over the hikers, lightning strikes!

Elizabeth continued with her mountain climb adventure……………… The wind did not blow the clouds away. Within 45 minutes we stopped and with a feeling of dread we p...

Never climb a mountain in a storm…………

Lila opened the website of the ‘Wil, Lil and Vi survivors’ club’ and was delighted to receive an invitation from an avid reader of all the survivor stories that...

Lion attack! Does the victim survive?

Lila, steaming cup of early morning tea in hand, browsed the website of the “Wil, Lil and Vi Survivors’ Club” and found the most fascinating true story of Harry...

The World Rugby Cup, love it or hate it, is ON.

I fell in love with my husband as a teenager and accepted without question his participation and addiction to the game of rugby. Watching him, tall and lean wit...

Rugby Cup in my house!

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Does money makes the world go around?

The short answer to that is 'NO'! Lee and Doug live in Johannesburg. A Zimbabwean works for them as caretaker on their large property combining business premise...

Trolley day. 5 minute write

It was our first visit to Canada since our daughter relocated to Fort St Johns some years ago. Himself (my husband) and I found communicating with the locals wh...

Temptation..........

The little ones are quarreling over whose biscuit is bigger - Craig is weeping as his has broken in two - 'there there,' I mutter, 'the others only have one eac...

Master of the Universe!

https://i.postimg.cc/MpXLt8Vb/bike-dirt.png Image source 'You remember mom, when I was little and you took me to the movies......with popcorn and everything. We...

Snake in the grass? Not this time!

Lila arranged a small party to share the joy of Vi and Wil's engagement. The three survivors had joined a group of wine tasters combined with musical evenings a...

APRICOT 5 minute freewrite

My daughter was born after an extremely short labour, all properly in the hospital. My husband was also in recovery..... from the terror of perhaps having to de...

Elephant's Road Rage

Lila was browsing the website of the “Wil, Lil and Vi Survivors’ club” and she read Sander Hoffman’s true account of a rogue bull elephant’s attack on tourists ...

It's the 5 letter H word - HAIRY - sometimes scary!

I love WORDS, https://i.postimg.cc/cCcL59dv/words-hand.png Pixabay Spoken, written, whispered, sung or shouted....... They take me by the hand into vast tracts ...

Retrenchment..........is it possible to survive.

The panic was in the waiting. It came in waves especially at 2 am when Lila would wake up with her heart threatening to burst out of her chest. She would sit up...

Live a little - FROLIC!

TO FROLIC is to have FUN............. be funny, suck the juices of joy out of living. Be a friend to the shy girl, introduce her to the crowd. Join in when the ...

Friends forever?

Bert and Lucas were enjoying the carefree abandon of a stomach clenching, side splitting LAUGH. Neither of them had had a best buddy ever before and while it fe...

Friends forever?

Bert and Lucas were enjoying the carefree abandon of a stomach clenching, side splitting LAUGH. Neither of them had had a best buddy ever before and while it fe...