Friday, 27 April 2018

A tribute to an old friend

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Wayne Snowsill died on the 21st of April 2018, aged 79. This was my eulogy to him at his funeral service. Wayne Snowsill was an extremely handsome young man. He was a couple of years older than me, but my peer group, whenever we were at places where teenagers congregated, were always envious of the fact that the girls we wanted to attract, were inevitably gathering around Wayne. And I so it came as a complete surprise to me when I...
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Monday, 2 April 2018

In praise of a plate of porridge

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A few years ago a friend told me that his heart specialist, who is of the feminine persuasion, advised him to have porridge for breakfast. “Porridge,” she reckoned, “Just eats up cholesterol.”I decided to follow her advice and have been on a diet of a porridge for breakfast ever since. I assumed that my childhood regime of Creamota plus generous amounts of brown sugar, and lashings of cream would nullify the cholesterol-reducing qualities...
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