...which is just one of the things that can happen as one matures - gets old if you like -which I don't like. And it starts with things like when people offer to help you.
Drug addiction leads to crime. Addicts cannot fund their habit in any other way. True, but how many drug addicted criminals already have a propensity for crime?
ACT isn't the big-money, big-crowd party of the mid-1990s. It fits in a school hall. It depends on Rodney Hide to win Epsom with National party votes and needs all of Hide's oomph to stay in business.
I had returned home with my sister to be with mum as she was losing her partner of 55 years. My mum – well that is another story of a grand woman but right now my father was dying.
I have never understood the pleasure people seem to find in lying about on the beach slowly frying themselves and leaving it each day looking like freshly crumbed cutlets, or beef Wellingtons, as the sand sticks in layers all over their bodies.
St Francis’ Church shows more of the Portuguese influence with the flat-fronted facade patched and marred by flaking paint...We were told that one side of the church is Dutch, the other is Portuguese.
There before me stood the 54 storey Ponte building, built as premium apartments -and now fallen on terrible times. It asked to be photographed but my taxi driver refused to let me. In his impenetrable Africaans English, he barked at me to wind up my window and to lock the door.
