Priceless moments (Old Mutual years: 1994 - 1999)

Willow Road life

• Willow Road braais
• Volleyball beach on Clifton
• Cane duel with Russell
• Sleep on balcony in Willow Road
• House sitting in Pinelands
• 1994 World Cup rugby win
• Skinny dip at the Houenought Hotel!
• Xmas at Willow Road

Ally

• Weekends away (Montague, Mykonos, Citrusdal)
• Restaurants (La Petite Ferme, cheese platter with fig)
• Wedding day
• Honeymoon feeling in the river
• Travel: Ireland, Turkey, India, Thailand
• Erotic emails anticipating reunion

Sport

• Tennis at Old Mutual with Dutch friend
• Tennis with Russel; Mike at UCT tennis courts
• Paintball

Beach

• Paddle-skiing with Donavan
• Clifton that summer
• Volleyball on Clifton after work - sunset
• Wild dolphins and a whale at Llandadno

Trips, camping and hikes

• Buckaneers Backpackers
• Fish River Canyon hike
• Otter Trail (x 2)
• "What the World Needs Now" in Bains Kloof
• Hardcore Hiking Club
• Swellendam first day
• Hike to Hoar Hut
• Tittiesbaai
• Camping with Ivor

1996 travels

• Italy (Capri, Sistine Chapel, Naples, Rome, Florence, Venice)
• Scotland (Eileen Donan castle, Isle of Sky)
• Lake District
• Hugging an ancient rock
• Ally reading Beatrix Potter in car

1997 travels

• Sitting in pubs in Ireland - Irish coffee, writing our journals, listening to music
• Irish Castle nookie
• Cliffs of Moher (Ireland)
• Greece (Vicos Gorge, Olympos, Meteora, Corfu)
• Olympos (boat trip, yoghurt, beach, old ruin, volleyball)
• Meteora (Greece)
• Caroline (Corfu)
• Israel (Jerusalem, sleeping on roof)
• Jordan (Dead Sea, Petra)
• Steam bath in Istanbul
• Turkey (Butterfly Valley & Olympus, Island swim, cruising in Fetiye)
• India (especially Udaipur, Jaiselmeer)
• Lake Palace (Udaipur)
• Indian bird park
• Ally's amazing travel journals
• Finding out my finances were far better than I thought (London)

London life 1997 & early 1998

• Reunion with Ally
• Museums & tourist attractions (e.g. London Tower)
• Plays (Jesus Christ superstar, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera)
• Porchester Turkish Baths
• Working for The Ministry of Agriculture
• Book store visits at Mall

Movies 

Priceless moments (University years: 1989 - 1993)

General

• My 21st birthday party at Willow Road
• Llandudno boogey boarding, bat & ball
• Joy while walking
• Lazerquest
• Swimming at Constantia Gym
• Ambassadors and youth club camps
• Buying my music system - my 21st party
• Fun with Ivor - great laughs and chats
• Moving into Willow Road and painting
• Buying Willow Road and painting it
• Getting my first car (Gertrude)

University

• New computer - first assignment
• Thesis and stats
• Maths 102

Away

• Storm's River (water logic)
• Grahamstown Festival
• Tsitsikama Trail
• Camping at Bain's Kloof
• Camps with Shirly and co (Greyton)
• Betties Bay, Pringle Bay (with Rusconi's)
• Ndumu with Tony
• Mkuzi, Umfolozi with dad

Dancing

• Robbin Island with Moira
• Ball room dancing
• Viennese Ball with Caroline

Ally

• Meeting Ally
• Early relationship
• Palmiet & New Year's eve with feather
• Skinny dip + locomotion
• First kiss.
• Kirstenbosch date
• Restaurants with Ally (Over Top, On the Rocks, Le Perla, Le Petit Ferme)
• Weekends with Ally at lodges (Franschhoek, Greyton, Montagu, Elgin lake)
• Ally 3rd month anniversary
• Our picnics at Jonkershoek
• Buy skin products and clothes
• Surprise Chinese dinner in my room - first time nookie
• Bath together - Ally shy
• Allikins, " ffff-first"
• Ally's cards
• Dress making for Ally - Viennese Ball
• I love you - 1st (3 month anniversary at Melkbos + Table View restaurant)
• Kitch  party
• Melkbos flat
• You are so naugty!, "Have I told you lately I love you...", "I'm finding you very attractive right now..."  Nookie
• Licked for 1st time
• Yacht club party (kiss on windsurfers, see her in underwear, lose way)
• Queenspark changing room.

Birds

• African Finfoot  (Nature's Valley)
• Black Eagles (Devil's peak)
• Green Coucal  (Mkuzi)
• Half collared kingfisher
• Narina Trogon (Ndumu)
• Pel's Fishing Owl (Ndumu)

Movies

Priceless moments (School years: 1977 - 1988)

At school

• Vista Nova - maths races, Friday movies, annual fete
• Pompeii and Dido projects
• School stationery
• Fun at school with Julian and Kaffin
• Hot lunch, especially instant dessert
• The tuck shop (especially tomato fritos)
• Xmas Cathedral service at end of term
• My locker with the sand filled toys
• Cycling to school - past the girls
• Lift to school with The Rusconis
• Comic with Tony
• Coming first in class
• Shakespeare at Maynardville

Books & Comics

• Reading in class: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Hobbit, The Pearl
• Famous Five, Secret 7
• Wilbur Smith
• Tintin
• Asterix
• Richie Rich, Archie

Extramural activities

• Maynardville for Shakespeare
• Squash on a Fri
• Descant in Choir
• Xmas carol singing on TV
• Choir competition (mousetrap)
• Vista Nova Fri movies 
• St Georges end of term movies
• Baine's Kloof in Std 2
• School camp (saw sparrow-hawk)
• Leadership camp in Baine's Kloof (matric)

Sport

• Bath after rugby
• High jump and long jump double win
• Getting table tennis table
• Scoring rugby try
• PE Rugby and oceanarium show
• Sports days
• 5 km run on Table Mountain road

Final year

• Sleeping on the patio, swimming before school
• Studying in the dining room with the clock
• The hut where we all hung out
• My popularity because of pharoah role in Joseph
• My sense of humour coming out, studying jokes
• 2 Matric dances with Jane
• Matric dance with Wendy
• Mock tests
• Matric A - Luiperd's Kloof
• A for Afrikaans (more than Tony)

Plays

• Oliver
• Tom Sawyer
• Hijack play
• Joseph
• The Others (on other side of the wall)
• Joseph

Hobbies

• Penny Red (Mike)
• Playing Arcade Game at shop
• Minolta cameras (including Minolta 9000)
• Playing Commodore 64 games (Commando, Beach Head, Olympics, Pole Position)
• Paddle ski
• Stamp collecting
• Telescope for birding
• Train-set in outside room
• Birding
• Computer programming (game)

Home

• Epworth Road - 39 Steps and staying over with Gran and Gramps
• Ian Livingston and caramel ice-cream
• Sea Point swimming pool - and jumping from high board
• Sleeping on the patio, swimming before school
• Swimming in Midway pool (Marco Polo, machine gun, lie on paving)
• Saturday night - Magnum
• School stationery at the start of the term
• Walking the park with Tina and Meg
• Trainset
• Swimming in our pool (Marco Polo, machine gun, lie on paving)
• Throwing the ball for Meg & Tina
• Watching x-rated movies (especially the first)
• Action Men

Birding

• 1st trip with Tony to Rietvlei
• Osprey over Rietvlei
• Black-shouldered kites on The Common
• Ground woodpecker at Betties Bay
• Gymnogene (Okovango trip)
• Rondevlei, especially Malachite Kingfisher, Little Bittern, Marsh Harrier
• Black River near school
• Swellendam birding weekend
• Club presentations
• Uilenskraal (terns, fish eagle, pied kingfisher)
• Seeing coucal for first time
• Okovango  (56 new birds)
• Kruger with Colin

Holidays and trips

• Ceres holiday
• Midmar Dam, Drakensberg with family
• Okovango, Chobe, Victoria Falls
• Graaf Reinet with Juf Nel
• Orange River with dad
• Kruger with Colin (leopard, bush-babies)

Spiritual

• Descant in Choir
• Aware of being aware

Movies

Priceless moments (Childhood years: 1970 - 1980)

Going away

• Horse riding at Old Bells
• Uilenskraal camping (huge breakfasts, mole snake, fishing)
• Birkenhead
• Camping with the Cully's
• England: Rollerskating, lego and Fisher Price fire engine, bird nest

Collecting

• Stamps
• Dad's stamps - incorporating into mine
• Fishing tackle

Granny and Grandpa

• Walk to flat with Grandpa
• Grandpa in the garage
• Granny's chicken lunch, veggies and junket
• Birkenhead Hotel with Grand and Gramps: walks, Welsh Rarebit
• Chocolate Logs from Granny

Gran and Gramps

• Visits to Cape Town (Gramp's pipe, Newlands pool, beach)
• Reading the book I won with Granny in bed
• Moving to Cape Town
• Overnights at Epworth Road

Garden

• Beatie boys soccer games
• Climbing tree
• Toys on beam in garden
• Climbing at the back
• Throwing the ball for the dogs

Xmas

• Opening Xmas presents in turn. Mum always so generous.
• Xmas with the Cully's
• The excitement the night before Xmas
• Computer games

Outings

• The Castle Dungeon
• Sea Point walks with San Marco ice-cream and train

The beach

• Paddling with Gramps at Boulders
• Muizenberg
• St James
• Granadilla lollies
• Muizenberg with Grandpa (Appletiser)

The outside room

• Table tennis
• Train set

Swimming

• Newland's pool
• Swimming in our pool for first time when only half full
• Marco polo in the pool

Playing

• Playing Atari (Space Invaders, Pong)
• Playing garden trucks, army men, action men
• Rollerskating, lego and Fisher price (London)
• Lego and Fisher price
• Lone Ranger and Tonto (and wanting horse)
• Army Men and army trucks, especially boat lander
• Trainset

Movies and TV

• Movies (Cavendish, school)
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Indiana Jones
• Live and Let Die
• End of term movies on stage at school
• Fri movies at Vista Nova
• Saturday night - Magnum with chocolate

Reading

• Richie Rich and Archie comics
• Tintin
• Asterix and Obelix
• Enid Blyton, especially Secret 7 and Famous 5

Dad's trains

• Exploring local wood, inspiring the story of the puppies
• Going into train boiler

Food

• Granny Station's roast chicken & junket
• Mum's chocolate mousse, banana pudding & crème caramel
• Leche sorbet at San Marcos (Sea Point)
• Mum's chicken soup
• Mum's Xmas cake
• Jam donuts and custard slice at Silwood bakery
• Mum's Xmas dinners, particularly xmas pudding and brandy butter
• Granadilla lollies, St James
• Caramel crisp ice-creams as a kid
• Mum's Sunday Roasts
• Coffee and Top Deck watching TV on Saturday nights
• Mum's rice pudding
• Mum's crunchies
• Welsh Rarebit at The Birkenhead
• Appletizer on the beach with grandpa as a kid
• Granny's chicken lunch with junket

Restaurants

• Mount Nelson lunches with the family as a kid
• Birkenhead dinners with granny and grandpa as a kid
• Spur Hot Rock & Pecan-Nut Sunday
• Pancake place
• The Casanova

Movies

Moments that have taken my breath away

Life is not about the number of breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

Love 

• The love at Gran and Gramps 50th wedding anniversary
• Seeing Ally in her dress for the first time on our wedding day
• Mum´s and Mike's wedding and how happy they looked
• Seeing Matthew and Sammy for the first time
• The letter Jo wrote about Gran when she passed away
• Listening to Gramp's tape that he left us after he passed away
• Mum's love, support and generosity of spirit
• A night time stroll with dad in Uilenskraal as a kid and feeling such love I thought my heart would burst
• The letter Jo wrote me on my 40th birthday
• Gorgeous, wonderful Mack

Deep nostalgia

• Riding horses at 8 Bells as a kid
• Paddling with Gramps at Boulders beach
• Gran and Gramps holidaying with us in Cape Town when we were kids
• Opening xmas presents as a kid
• Going to Muizenberg with Grandpa Station as a kid and drinking appletizer
• Exploring Knysna and Zululand with Dad
• Heart to hearts with Jo as teenagers
• Saturday nights in front of the TV with the family
• Early days with Ally
• Camping at Uilenskraal with dad and Grandpa as a kid
• Camping at Palmiet River with old friends

Wonder

• Encounters with great white bears in the Arctic
• On a beach with 50000 King penguins in South Georgia
• A beautiful leopard coming right up to my car window in the Kruger National Park
• Soaring condors at Colca Canyon (Peru)
• Swimming with wild dolphins and a whale at Llandadno (South Africa).
• Swimming with a turtle in Dahab's Blue Hole (Sinai, Egypt)
• Diving in the Canyon and the bottomless Blue Hole in the Red Sea (Sinai, Egypt)
• Snorkeling with turtles at Barbados and Galapagos Islands
• Seeing the world's tiniest bible and a statue of Peter with his foot rubbed away at the Vatican (Rome, Italy)
• The Tomb of Queen Nefertiti (Luxor, Egypt)
• Seeing Tutankamin's treasures in the Museum of Cairo (Egypt)
• The mighty power of the Augrabie Falls (South Africa), Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) and Iguazu Falls (Argentina)
• The enormous blue gums in Shanon National Park (Australia)
• My first sight of Abu Simbel and The Pyramids (Egypt)
• The ceiling of The Sistine Chapel (Rome)
• The amazing Meteora monasteries, perched on the top of huge boulders (Greece)
• Seeing thousands of flamingos in Ngorongoro Crater (Africa)
• Watching hundreds of hummingbirds in Mindo, Ecuador
• Walking amongst a colony of half a million Megellanic Penguins at Puerto Tombo in Patagonia, Argentina
• Watching huge chunks of ice fall of the Morraine Glacier
• Exploring hallucinogenic salt deserts, spurting geysers and eerie lagoons around the Uyuni Salt pans (Bolivia)
• Sunrise over the sacred and mysterious city of Machu Picchu (Peru)
• Hundred of thousands of sea birds (including beautiful Inca terns) at the Ballestas Islands (Ecuador)
• Photographing Horses in the Mist in Ecuador
• Snorkeling with penguins, sharks, turtles and rays and getting close and personal with tortoises and marine iguanas in the surreal islands of Galapagos
• The awe inspiring stars on The Orange River (Namibia)
• Richard Attenboroughs´s documentaries, especially "Blue Planet" and "Life of Birds."
• Seeing millions of Soldier Crabs on a beach in Newcastle (Australia)

Beauty

• The blue haze of the Blue Mountains outside Sydney
• The view from a Roman fort, looking down onto the emerald waters of Olympus (Turkey)
• Sunset over the rocks in Wadi Rum desert in Jordan.
• Exploring the stunning Taj Mahal (India) at sunrise
• Snorkeling in Lake Malawi and watching beautiful tropical fish (Africa)
• The undulating hills and tropical forests of Umfolozi, Mkuzi, Hluhluwe game reserves (South Africa)
• Photographing Cambridge colleges at dusk (UK)
• Hiking the stunning Vicos Gorge in Greece
• Hiking the stark and scenic Fish River Canyon (Namibia)
• Walking through the lush Tsitsikama forest (South Africa)
• Exploring the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam after a joint (Holland)
• The beauty of the Lake District (UK)
• The perfect blue colour of the sea in Turkey
• The tempestuous, wild coastline of Storm's River
• The view of Table Mountain from Blouberg Beach
• The stormy Isle of Skye (Scotland)
• The beautiful views from the Island of Capri (Italy)
• The petrified forest in the Namib desert and its beautiful sand dunes
• The extraordinary colour of the Morraine Lake (Canada)
• Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness (Scotland)
• The multi coloured buildings of Burano Island  inVenice
• The redness of the rock as the sun rose over Hanging Rock in The Blue Mountains (Australia)
• Photographing the changing mood of the Fitzroy Mountains and the breathtaking sight of Laguna Tres and Laguna Torres
• Viewing Sydney's harbour and sights from the air from a helicopter
• Watching the first ray of sun hit the Torres pillars in Torres del Paine (Chile)
• Exploring the vast swamps of the Brazilain Pantanol (Brazil)
• Snorkeling in crystal clear rivers and caving in Bonito (Brazil)
• Hiking along the ancient road of the Incas on the Inca trail (Peru)
• Exploring the flooded forests of the Cuyabeno Jungle (Ecuador)
• The moon setting over The 12 Apostles (Australia)
• Beethoven's Ode To Joy
• The redness of Uluru at sunrise

Peace

• Rowing on the beautiful, aqua blue Pokhara Lake (Nepal)
• Gazing at the stars from Palmiet beach (South Africa) at night
• Watching puffins from the Cliffs of Moher (Ireland)
• Watching the sun set over the Mediteranean from the walls of an ancient castle at Kizkalesi (Turkey)
• Floating on my back at night in the Citrusdahl hot baths (South Africa) looking up at the stars
• Putting a message into the Wailing Wall and meditating in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (Israel)
• Climbing to the top of the The Monastery (Petra, Jordan) and looking out into the desert
• Meditating by a little lake in Muktinath, high in the Himalaya mountains (Nepal)
• Meditating on a mountain overlooking Butterfly Valley (Turkey)
• Watching swifts swirling through the sunset at Monsoon Palace (Uidaipur, India)
• Sleeping out in the desert dunes in Rajistan (India)
• Sitting on a log, looking out into a blue lake in Chitwan National Park (Nepal)
• Watching the sun rise and the moon setting at the same time from Masada mountain (Israel)
• Watching the sunset at the Temple of Psoedian (Greece)
• A secluded white beach on the Otter Trail (Garden route, South Africa)
• Floating through the riverlets of the Okovango Delta on a Makura and listening to the cry of the fish eagle (Botswana)
• Three weeks alone communing with nature in The Kruger National Park.

Contentment

• Long, lazy days at Buckaneers BackPackers (South Africa)
• Contemplating life from the walls of the Jaisselmer fort (India)
• Cuddling Ally in a river in Franschhoek (South Africa) during our honeymoon
• Lazily watching the Nile float by from a felucca (Egypt)
• Playing volleyball on Clifton beach after work and then watching the sunset
• A romantic holiday in the tropical paradise of Paradise Island (Mozambique)
• Making love in a secluded island castle (Ireland)
• Lazing on the beaches in Zanzibar (Tanzania)
• Soul enriching time with Ally in Barbados
• Lazing on the beach on Paradise Island
• Lazy weekend life in Cambridge, punting and cycling and picnicking with Ally. 

Excitement

• See a wild platypus for the first time in North Queensland (Australia)
• The excitement of Gran and Gramps moving to South Africa
• Seeing the Big 5 (lion, elephant, leopard, buffalo, Rhino) in the Serengetti Game Reserve (Kenya)
• Seeing a Pels Fishing owl at Ndumu reserve (South Africa)
• Exploring an isolated forest in Zululand in search of elusive bird species (South Africa)
• Seeing my first Laughing Kookaburra (Australia)
• Seeing my first Toucan (Brazil)
• Seeing my first Lammergeier (Nepal)
• Seeing my first African Finfoot at Nature's Valley (Garden route)
• Seeing a Green Coucal in Mkuzi (South Africa)
• Getting close to the Black Eagles on Devil's Peak
• Bush babies in the Kruger
• Seeing my first wild bear in Banff (Canada)
• The start of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the last Ark
• Sydney's amazing New Year's Eve fireworks
• My first sight of the Sydney Opera House (Sydney)
• My first date with Ally - a picnic in Kirstenbosch
• See many new birds in Mindo, Provincial Esteros del Iberia and Chitwan
• Winning four medals in School athletics
• Winning the acting prize at School
• My first Koala in the wild
• Seeing my 1000th bird species  in the wild
• Seeing lots of albatrosses up close on a boat trip outside Sydney
• Seeing the 250th movie on the IMDB Top 250 list

Joy and exhilaration

• Exhilerating leaps into the sky
• The views from the top of Mount Olympus (Greece) after a 3 day hike
• Rollerblading an endless downhill stretch with Keira at Stanley Park (Canada)
• South Africa winning the rugby world cup in 1994 (and 2007! )
• Paddle skiing down waves at Muizenberg (South Africa) and Manly (Australia).
• Doing the Cobra Rollercoaster ride 6 times in a row to get the perfect shot
• The Friday Night rollerblading skate in London
• Sandboarding at the desert oasis of Huacachina (Ecuador)
• Skinny dipping in icy cold mountain pools
• Playing paintball and breaking the record for the most paintballs fired (South Africa)
• My whole experience as a tour leader in The Middle East

Breathless Adventure

• Battling scorpions in the desert in Botswana
• Swimming out to an island in Kizkalesi (Turkey) and exploring its ruins
• Climbing to the Telicho Lake, the highest lake in the world at 6700 metres in the Himalayas (Nepal)
• Paraglinding over the lagoon of Oludinez (Turkey)
• Jumping from high cliffs on a day boat trip in Oludinez (Turkey)
• A very high leap from a cliff in Parati (Brazil)
• Zip lining between giant trees at Whistler (Canada)
• White river rafting grade 5 rapids on the Zambezi River (Zimbabwe)
• Quad biking on the dunes of Swakopmund (Namibia)
• Jumping off a 3rd story balcony in Luxor (Egypt) into the pool (to impress my tour group)
• Hiking Suicide Gorge in South Africa with mighty leaps into the river
• Climbing a live volcano in Pucon, watching lava spew, and then sliding down the mountain on our bums
• Whiteriver rafting grade 5 rapids on the Zambezi River
• Hurtling down the worlds most dangerous road on mountain bikes and then chilling out in Coroico (Bolivia)
• Exploring an abandoned shale mine in Glen Davis, braving snakes, and feeling like Indianna Jones
• Ice climbing and hiking on The Grey Glacier (Chile)
• A very close shave with a bull elephant in The Kruger National Park

Rapture

• Thick shakes at Dahab (Egypt)
• Granny Station´s chicken roast dinners as a kid
• Gran's trifle and lumpy custard
• Lunch at the beautiful Lake Palace in Udaipur (India)
• Reading Lord of the Rings on the Annapurna Circuit (Nepal) and watching the movies
• Mum's chocolate mousse and crème caramel
• San Marco Italian ice cream as a kid
• Mum's Xmas pudding and brandy butter 
• Reading Jack Reacher novels
• Reading Enid Blyton stories as a kid
• Reading The Hobbit as a kid
• Watching my first James Bond movie as a kid
• Watching Mattias Klum, nature photographer extraordinaire present his work at The Sydney Opera House

Fascination

• The extensive ruins of Pompeii (Naples)
• Reading "A Short History of Everything" (Bill Bryson)
• The endless underground Catacombs (Rome)

Fun and laughter

• Frolicking in the mud in Parati (Brazil)
• Mud fights in the nude at Saklikent Gorge as a tourleader (Turkey)
• Somersaulting down sand dunes on the Nile (Egypt)
• Listening to Gramps tell his funny stories
• Dancing spontaneously to "What the world needs now is love, sweet love." with Russel and Roger at Bain´s Kloof (South Africa)
• Doing the speech at Jo and Antony's wedding
• Prancing on stage as Pharaoh in the musical of Joseph and his Technicolored Dream Coat at school
• Fun times with zany, wonderful Russell
• Tight leopard skin trousers and a mullet at an 80's party
• Riding an ostrich in Oudtshoorn
• Having as cool down under the world's highest shower
• Practising dancing with Jo as a teenager
• Playing silly devils with friends at The Uyuni Salt Pans (Bolivia)
• Being a naughty Santa at the Hardcore Hiking Club Xmas party
• Hanging out in the nude in Croatia
• Taking a mouthfull of shampoo thinking it was fruit juice

Surprise

• The ending of The Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, The Others and Fight Club

Related

• Priceless moments

Priceless moments

We do not remember days, we remember moments.  Cesare Pavese 

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

Childhood

• Stamp collecting
• Family Xmas
• New school term
• Ceres holiday  

Travel

• Fitzroy
• Torres
• Udaipur
• Nepal
• Galapagos
• Tourleading
• Uyuni in Bolivia
• Iguasu Falls, Victoria Falls
• Diving in Dahab (canyon & blue hole)
• Great Ocean Road
• Three Sisters, Hanging Rock
• Cliffs of Moher
• Table Mountain
• Namib dunes & trees
• Lake District
• Northern Queensland
• Iberia, Mindo, Pantanol
• Amazon
• Inca Trail and Macchu Picchu
• Dangerous Road
• Tasmania
• Perth to Melbourne to Sydney to Brisbane

Tourleading 

• Felucca
• Mud at Saklikent gorge
• Shona, Niki
• Writing e-mail to Gramps
• Oloudinez boat day

Manmade

• The Opera House
• Taj Mahal
• Petra, Abu Simbel, Pyramids
• Sydney skyline
• Tomb of Queen Nefertiti
• Tutankamin's treasures
• Meteora monasteries
• New computer
• New computer in London
• iPhone 4, iPhone 6
• New Macbook Pro (x2)
• Big screen
• Music mini-disk player
• Sony speakers

Spiritual

• Istanbul bath-house
• Swifts in India
• Balcony Awakening
• The presence of Love, especially to music
• The peace from meditation
• Being and mindfulness
• Spiritual insights - who I really am and my purpose

Home life

• Cambridge and Volvo life
• Home renovating
• Savouring my balcony
• The Botanica
• Walking with Mack
• Week in Manly
• Moving into Blues Point Road

Compass

• Reflecting
• Creating lasting transformation
• Compiling and synthesising
• Minimalism
• Getting things done, productivity
• Making a real difference to my life
• Evernote

Love & Connection

• Aimee discussions
• Yogi discussions
• Watching Mack walk

Passions

• Wisdom Trove
• Hiking
• Photography
• Editing photos and blogging
• The peace from meditation
• Walking with Mack
• Being and mindfulness
• Mack
• Mindmapping
• Tennis
• Editing photos and blogging
• Movies
• Tennis

Birding

• Rietvlei
• Rondevlei
• Bird park in India
• Chitwan National Park
• Pels ow
• African Fish Eagle
• Amazon parrots
• Malachite kingfisher (mating!)
• Condors
• Bearded vultures in Nepal
• Finfoot & kingfisher (Nature's Valley)
• Hummingbirds in Mindo
• Half a million Megellanic Penguins
• Green Coucal, Mkuzi
• Narina Trogan
• Toucan
• Fishing Eagle
• Ground woodpecker
• African Rail
• Finfoot
• Half collared kingfisher

Nature

• Storm's River waves
• Nature's Valley
• Okovango, Chobe, Kruger, Ndumu, Umfolozi, Etosha
• Tsitsikama Forest
• Baobabs, Shannon Park blue gums
• Stars on The Orange River

 Wildlife

• Leopard in Kruger
• Snorkeling with dolphins
• Wild dolphins and a whale at Llandadno
• Sea birds (including beautiful Inca terns) at the Ballestas Islands
• Horses in the mist
• David Attenborough nature DVD's
• Millions of Soldier Crabs

Creating

• Pompeii and Dido projects
• Wisdom Trove
• Reflections
• My Compass (Paradise Island, South America, Waverton)
• Volvo site + strategy documents + Denmark SPM map
• Excel spreadsheet of memories
• Blog (current, old memories, highlights) - Cambridge, South America
• PSION quotes
• New rep report
• Siegelgale strategy docs
• Computer program (game)
• Ally board presentation
• UCT mindmaps
• Teaching (twists, business, white board, CELTA lessons)
• Teaching scanned lessons
• Gramps eulogy + Jo's wedding speech
• Teacher's Wiki + class blog
• Fabricmatcher brainstorming + spec

Books & Movies 

• Gladiator
• Schindler's List
• James Bond
• Indiana Jones
• Lord of the Rings
• Game of Thrones
• Wilbur Smith
• The Hobbit
• Enid Blyton
• 39 Steps
• Sixth Sense
• The Notebook

Ally

• Ally
• New Year's eve with Ally
• Kirstenbosch picnic with Ally
• Franschoek river (honeymoon)
• Lake Palace
• Celine Dion
• Irish Castle nookie
• Lcked

Big releases 

• Spiritual releases
• Many times (2013) - spiritual wonder and also sadness
• Jo's card on my 40th
• Schindler's List
• Dances with Wolves
• Awakenings
• Dad in hotel room with Ally
• Jenny Mallet at funeral

Photography

• Antarctica & The Arctic
• Kruger
• Fitzroy, Kruger, Galapagos
• Camera club presentation
• Slide presentation on The Arctic
• Photography South America
• Getting new lenses (300mm, 500mm, 100 - 500mm, 14 - 300)

Memories - Cambridge 

• Moving into apartment
• Cambridge living (river, reserve, botanic garden)
• Crepes and library
• Blog, photos
• Movies and IMDB
• Mindmapping
• W Australia
• Punting
• Diving in Egypt
• Blogging
• Tennis with Louis
• Rollerblade Stanley Park
• Prague
• Canada
• Colleges

Memories - London (Volvo) 

• Volvo.com project
• John Barleycorn ribs
• Sleeping in Duxford
• Train to Duxford with coffee on way
• Brazil
• Asheville
• Volvo caffeteria
• Volvo.com steering meetings (Bokenas , Rastaried )
• Training in Gothenberg, Smaka
• Excel memories
• Tennis with Louis
• Gym
• Croatia
• Prague

Memories - London 

• Barbados
• Nepal
• Africa trip   (white-water, Malawi lake)
• Rollerblading
• Les Miserables
• Touch rugby
• Mini player
• Les Miserables
• Touch rugby
• Mini player

Memories - 1997 travels 

• Greece   (Olympus and Vicos Gorge)
• Turkey (Olympos, Butterfly Valley, Oludinez, swim to island)
• Egypt (Blue Hole, Felluca)
• Petra
• India - especially Udaipur and lunch at Lake Palace
• Ireland
• UK
• Thailand
• Compass, mantra, spirituality

Memories - Old Mutual 

• Wedding - and Franschoek
• Paradise Island
• Meditation movement
• Paddle skiing
• Paintball, Lazerquest
• Buckaneers Backpackers and Otter Trail
• PSION - quotes (1996 travels), compass (Paradise Island), organising
• Tennis with Russell
• Fish River hike
• Hiking Club weekends
• Otter Trail with Rory
• New Rep Project
• Clifton that summer
• Volleyball on Clifton
• Willow Road braais
• 1994 World Cup rugby
• What the World Needs Now (Russell and Roger)
• UK and Italy trip

Life Trove

• Blogging in South America
• Cambridge photos (the river, the colleges and punts)

Others

• Caroline at Pink Palace
• Nicky in Instanbul
• Shona making move on me
• Shona in Luxor
• Penny & Sarah
• Lizzy courtship
• Dani, before The Opera House
• Dani roadtrip