Life Trove

My mother never quite saw eye-to-eye with her in-laws. She was English, they were South African, and in their eyes, no woman on earth was ev...

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 seventeen, my family flew to Mauritius for a holiday. We touched down at the airport in Port Louis and boarded a bus to be transp...

When I was a kid, my father took me on my very first fishing trip during one of our camping holidays at Uilenkraal. My dad was a man of prec...

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...

When I was six years old, I lived in constant fear of Mrs. Ford. She was a loud, formidable woman who taught the older children and was know...

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...

From the video footage that Jo had digitalised. It also stars Mike and Heather.  

Some photos of dad taken throughout his life.  Very precious.   Related Tribute to dad All posts labelled "dad" Dad and his amazin...