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Showing posts with label Shirley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shirley. Show all posts
13 December 2005
13 November 2005
Farewell to Willow Road
Well, we've sold Willow Road, our Cape Town house, and it's kind of like the closing of a chapter in our lives. Home from 1990 to 2000, the place is full of special memories.
Some Highlights
Some Highlights
- Braais on the balcony
- The view from the balcony and the views of the mountain
- Living with a range of zany, wonderful housemates like Dain, Andre, Oliver, Ben, Eleda, Peter the plumber, Peter the paramedic, Shirly, Russel, Colleen and Rory
- Romancing Ally (including suprise Chinese dinner in my room)
- Sleeping out on the balcony
- Setting the house up with Ally in 1998 when we got back from overseas
- The walk in the mountain above the house
- Strolls to nearby Kirstenbosch
- Feta, the cat
- Pikiswe, our domestic helper (ah, those were the days!)
- Judge and Niki, Eleda's pugs
- Studying for university exams with Julian
- Summer holidays
- Some great parties including my 21st birthday party
- Some fantastic dinner parties
- A couple of family Xmases
- Watching South Africa win the 1994 world cup in the lounge (ecstacy).
- Watching South Africa losing to the Australians in the world cup cricket (run, Alan, run!)
- Lots and lots of cars outside and the dispair of the poor neighbours
- Gerald and the Edwards
- Silvia, my silver monza
- Waking up to the automatic irrigation system at 6 am in the morning
- The wild garden
- Walks up the hill at night to see the amazing views of the suburbs and check out other houses
- The chocabloc garage
- Furniture olympics
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Colleen,
home life,
Julian,
Old Mutual years,
Rory,
Russell,
Shirley,
university years