Life Trove

Growing up in the midst of Apartheid South Africa, my childhood was framed by the visible architecture of segregation. I remember the "...

When I was young, our family holidays were spent at a farm retreat called Eight Bells, several hours from Cape Town. For me, the entire trip...

When I was seven years old, I underwent surgery on both of my Achilles tendons. The recovery required me to have both legs encased in plaste...

When I was young, I was quite the pilferer. Looking back, I'm genuinely surprised it didn't lead to a full-blown life of crime. My o...

I have always struggled with a deep-seated phobia of making people wait. If I’m even a few minutes behind schedule, a familiar, prickly anxi...

When I was a child, I was the grandson of a living legend—a man of quiet reserve and an incredibly enormous appetite. One of our greatest fa...

I have always loved to walk. Whether it’s a rugged trek through the wilderness or a long, exhilarating urban hike through the city, walking ...

Before I was born, my parents engaged in a titanic struggle over my identity. My father was determined to name me Lambert, after his own fat...

As a kid, I made a life-changing discovery: I could scale the great tree in our garden. I was obsessed. For a solid week, I spent every spar...

Oh how I loved table tennis!  Gramps took out English lottery tickets for Jo and I and one day, I won £ 200.  There was no question how to s...

Memory highlights Singing a confident "loo" in music class and being signed up for the choir immediately as a result. Singing at S...

My all time favourites were Tintin and Asterix.  

I wasn't a big cartoon watcher as a kid but here are the ones I watched from time to time.  I particularly loved La Linea, loving the cr...

Hours and hours of fun staging battles between opposing forces. I threw matchstick boxes to emulate artillery!

I loved all these shows. Our family would watch TV while eating dinner. My most vivid and fond memory is watching Magnum PI on a Saturday ni...