Planting Season

Schmaltz?

Geoff got a whole bunch of music to listen to and amongst the never ending list of names is a guy called 'Michael Franks'.

I am addicted. Its all I want to listen to! The songs are amazing!! Sleeping Gypsy (1977)has some fantastic tracks including 'Antonio's Song', 'In the Eye of the Storm', 'Chain Reaction' and 'B'wana - He No Home'.

Some of the lyrics from 'In the Eye of the Storm':

chorus:
But hold me awhile
And I'll hang up my guns, mama
I know I've been flyin'
Too near the sun.
We'll move to the mountains
and make love to keep warm,mama
like two little birds
In the eye of the storm.

Dreamy schmaltz?
Or a beautiful waltz, some samba and interesting melodic lines?
I rate MF: Top drawer.

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Most Unusual

Yesterday in FREEZING COLD Kalk Bay, I looked over the balcony to see the strangest horizontal rainbow (pictured above)...

There is hope. That's what rainbows stand for according to my Sunday-School class teachers when Noah was discussed...this was at the Methodist church in George, the town where I grew up... We had the fortune (or misfortune??) of growing up in a house that's back gate bordered the back of the church yard....

On Sundays, dressed in "Sunday-best" (girls had to wear a dress or skirt), our family would walk down the rather long garden..past the veggie garden (& my strawberry patch) through the gate and into church yard where we would split - adults to church and children to Sunday-School to sing songs and make pictures of Bible stories.

My mom was a Sunday-School teacher for a short while. The best stories I remember my mom coming home with were these:

• On completing a nativity scene, a little child was asked to point out 'who-was-who'.
  He pointed out 'Baby Jesus'...'Mary'...'Joseph'...'sheep'...
  ...And who was the mysterious big round, brown coloured-in person?
  'Brown John Virgin' of course!!
  
  
• Asked to draw a their favorite Bible story, one kid came out with an airplane with a bunch of people in it. When asked to explain, it was declared 'The flight to Egypt'.
  Passengers included were Mary, Joseph, Jesus, Moses....
  ...And who should be flying the plane?
  'Pontius the Pilate'! (who else?!)
  

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Bla

"No. No Feliz"

I don't know why.

We're back in South Africa... Spain was really really really hot! I think the hottest was around 46Degrees. We have a picture of me standing under a sign at 8pm at 38Degrees.
Now we have Winter again. At least its reasonably mild.

I've not been in the mood to blog, therefore the lack of updates.
Hopefully I'll feel better soon & divulge some stories from our trip.
If you're friends with me on Facebook, I've put some photos up.

I've joined the gym. Might as well build on 18 days of walking around Spain than start from scratch.

And the rest is just "Bla Bla Bla."

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