THINKING ABOUT A LOT - MARK SHENTON.....-
LOOKING AT PICTURES OF RENIE AND BRIAN SHENTON AND ALSO TALKING ABOUT NOREEN BEASLEY AND THE LETTER THAT SHE SENT TO MY MOM AS WELL, AND WHAT A
FANTASTIC ARTIST AND ANIMATOR SHE IS AND WAS -- THINKING ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING OUT THERE AS WELL -- THE SAPS IN THE CARS --WELL I DID KNOW QUITE A FEW AND THIS WAS A THING TO THINK ABOUT AS WELL..............................................................
FINGER LUNCHES AND THE 9 YEARS THAT I WORKED AT DENEYS REITZ -- MORMONS AS WELL -- THINKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT I KNEW AS WELL, THE HARVEYS -- GEOFF ORKIN PERHAPS ALL NICE -- JEANETTE RICE WAS ESPECIALLY NICE AS WAS JOEY AS WELL..........................................................................................................................................................
WHEN I GO PAST NINO'S I STILL GET A BIT OF A JOLT THINKING ABOUT ALL THOSE CHRISTMAS LUNCHES AS WELL.................................................................................................................
THE SHENTONS AND THE ST JOHNS BOYS AS WELL -- TALKING ABOUT HOUGHTON MAKES ME THINK ABOUT CULLUM AND COMITIS AS WELL, AND THOSE people who I knew from the parties and in the houses in ORANGE GROVE AND WHO WERE THEY -- SUCH A LONG TIME AGO ---- THE POLICEMEN AND WOMEN DOWN IN NORWOOD --- THE CHILDREN FROM THE AREA AS WELL......................THE BRITZ FAMILY AND I LOVED THOSE REDHEADS THEY WERE SUCH WELL BROUGHT UP AND NICE BOYS AS WELL...........................SONNY AND THE WAY HE LOOKED LIKE ROBERT REDFORD,BETTER LOOKING....THOSE DAYS IN JEPPE AS WELL GOING DOWN TO THE CINEMA IN KENSINGTON AND THE DANCES AT THE CHURCH --- PLAYING NETBALL AT THE FAIRWAYS SCHOOL WHEN KAREN LIPMAN WAS A FRIEND OF MINE AS WELL, BEFORE SHE PASSED AWAY....... --- THINKING ABOUT BILLY AND HILLBROW AND THE CROWD FROM THE CLARENDON AND THE PEOPLE I KNEW FROM THERE -- TOMMY AND THE DAY HE GOT OUT ON THE LEDGE AND WALKED AROUND THE EDGE IN THE PENTHOUSE FLAT -- DURING AN OVER CAST DAY TO SAY HE LOVED ME -- HE HAD ALL THIS LONG HAIR......IT WAS LONG BEFORE THE DAYS WHEN HE GOT MARRIED AS WELL.......THE HARRISON REEF CROWD AND THE SOCCER LOVERS AND THE POOL PLAYERS ------ SOMEONE FROM THE BEKKER FAMILY AS WELL -- THINKING OF BEKKER AND FOURIE AND BOSHOFF -- REMINDS ME OF THE JAZZ CLUB DAYS AND GOING TO THE BALALAIKA WITH AUNTY MICKEY AS A CHILD AND DANCING ON THE FEET OF THE GREEK MEN...............AND AT THE GREEK CLUB -- WHEN I WAS COMFIRMED IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH WITH MARK SHENTON --- CONFIRMED AN ANGLICAN AND A CATHOLIC AS WELL.......THE CROWD OF GIRLS FROM WAVERLEY AND MARYVALE SCHOOL............................
THE PIENAAR FAMILY AND THE COETZEE'S THINKING OF CHRISTINE AND BOET AND THE NORWOOD PEOPLE ALL THINKING -- OF THEM -- PEOPLE FROM THE AREA THAT I MISSED AND LOVED FOR YEARS -- LUCIA AND THE PARTY I HAD IN JEPPE -- AND THEN I WENT TO THE JEPPE POLICE STATION -- BECAUSE WE HAD DISAPPEARED FOR A NIGHT AT LEAST -----
THE BOYS FROM JEPPE HIGH -- AND THE MUNITICHS AND GARETH AND THE KISSING GURAMIES -- I LOVED THEM --- THE FIRST BEER SHANDY AT GAILS WEDDING ------------------
TALKING ABOUT PETER BATTISTICH MAKES ME THINK OF LUBBIE AND ALSO THE THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT I KNEW AS WELL, AS THEM THE BALICH AND MARINOVICHS -- THINKING ABOUT THE LAMBERTS AS WELL..........................................................................................
THE PEOPLE I KNEW FROM EDENVALE LIKE DEREK JACKSON AS WELL -- THINKING ABOUT THE TRIPS ON THE HIGHWAY -- PLAYING PASS THE BOTTLE IN A CAR -- WHEN WE WENT TO THE SAPS FLATS IN PTA AND THEN ONTO PARTIES FROM THEN ON -- HIM ASKING ME TO MARRY HIM WHEN I WAS ABOUT 15 -- HE WAS ONLY JOKING THOUGH AS HE HAD CAUGHT ME SKINNY DIPPING IN PETER HENNINGS POOL,IN LOMBARDY -- AND WE WERE JUST REALLY GOOD FRIENDS AS WELL........................................................................
WATCHING JAZZ AT THE CLUBS WHEN HENNIE BEKKER AND JOHNNY FOURIE PLAYED -- AND LIVING IN THE STREET WITH PEOPLE LIKE THE SWANEPOEL FAMILY THEY WERE REALLY LOVELY PEOPLE -- ALL OF THEM -- ECHOES OF LIZZIE AND THE NIEMANDTS
WHEN I USED TO GO THERE AND SEE THEM AS WELL -- AT THE BARRACKS IN NORWOOD -- BUT, I HAD BEEN THERE FOR YEARS BEFORE -- THERE WAS A SLIDE THERE AND THE POOL ACROSS THE ROAD AND A LOT OF THE CHILDREN I KNEW CAME FROM THERE AS WELL.....
WHEN THEY OPENED THE HOUSING OR IMPROVED ON IT INSTEAD IN THE NORWOOD BARRACKS AND POLICE PRECINCT -- THE STATION WAS DIFFERENT WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND THEN IT WAS CHANGED ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-TALKING ABOUT NIEMANDT -- AND WHEN WE LIVED IN THE SAME BUILDING.....IN HILLBROW......NEAR THE FIRE STATION -- SHE WORKED AT THE JHB MORGUE AT THE TIME AS WELL, OR A PART OF IT -- THE CENTRE THAT DEALT WITH RAPES -- SHE WAS A LOVELY PERSON -- WHEN I HAD MY DAUGHTER SHE WAS THERE FOR ME WITH DAWN JACOBS -- SAXON AS WELL...
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