Jan Carew's sister Penny is doing the sponsored Moonwalk Marathon in
the UK on Sunday 19th _Father's day - together with 14 999 other women!
It's to raise money for breast cancer research and has been going for
the last 6 years.
Playtex supplies each female with a bra which they then decorate.
Some show it off in the flesh, others, like Pen, are more modest and
will wear it over the top of a Tee shirt.
It starts at midnight and follows the London Marathon course.
It'll be on the telly (BBC) the following Thursday.
BUTTONS AND BOWS
Composed by Avis to commemorate the decoration of the Moonwalk bra!
"Let's cover your bra with buttons" Jan said
"It should be so easy to do,
Your boobs are quite small
So to cover it all
We'll only be needing a few."
"So please send me all your pink buttons,
If you look, you'll have lots you'll discover
Good grief! Sakes alive!
You've only got five?
It's your boobs not your nose we're to cover."
Jan appealed then to neighbours in Crossways
"We need help, now what do you think!
We've got the answer
To conquer breast cancer -
It's buttons! (But only in pink)
The buttons poured in by the dozens,
It seemed she was on to a winner
"But oh I'll be blowed!
They'll all have to be sewed!
Why oh why is your chest not much thinner."
So the bra and the buttons to Avis
"Together we'll sew and have fun"
So with Scrabble forsaken
and with fingers all aching
We found we'd just only begun!
We sewed and sewed those darn buttons,
A hundred and not one to spare
But having used them all up
We inspected each cup
And the top halves looked awfully bare.
So having run out of pink buttons
The only thing then left to do
Was to make lots of bows
And sit and sew those
Then send the darn bra back to you.
"The Pig 'n Jock have made it official. Congratulations to Michelle
and Gareth on their engagement on the 2nd June. Love from the Pigors
and Jocks families. "
Our heartfelt congratulations go out to Michelle and Gareth who got
engaged on the 2nd June. We wish them all the best and may their life
together be filled with joy and happiness. Welcome to the family
Gareth.
Cecilia Mellin, formerly of Bulawayo, passed away peacefully at home
in Durban, South Africa, on Sunday 5th June, 2005. Beloved wife of
Patrick for 50 years, mother of Amanda, Sybil, Patrick and Mark;
mother-in-law of Andy and Julie; Ouma of Tracey, Robyn and Tristan
Rudman, Quintin & Simone McCutcheon, Chevonne & Patrick Mellin and
Lianne and Adam Mellin. Deeply missed by the whole family.
GRIFFITHS.
THANKS
To all our wonderful friends, here and abroad,
Thank you so much for your overwhelming support on the passing of
our beloved Bill and Dad.
Your messages,cards,and beautiful flowers were appreciated and brought
us much comfort.
We will miss him enormously and know you will too
Thank you for the love and support,
Norma, Marj & Willie, Di & Bren,Rob & Helen and their families.
You who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the
ground
You hate the one who reproves in court and despise him who tells the
truth.
You trample on the poor and force him to give you grain. Therefore,
though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
For I know how many are your offences and how great your sins.
You oppress the righteous and take bribes and you deprive the poor
of justice in the courts.
Therefore the prudent man keeps quiet in such times, for the times
are evil.
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty
will be with you, just as you say he is.
Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts.
Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-
failing stream.
Prayer for Help in Depression:
When the spirit sags like a sodden cloud,
And depression sits a sullen lump,
And the soul howls like a winter wolf,
Then send us, Lord, your risen Self
And bring the springtime back into our hearts. Amen.
(John Waddington-Feather.)
Our thoughts and prayers are daily for you all. We who are African
feel your pain and our spirits fly home to the land we love and will
always call home.
Love & Godbless, Jane Petrie.
LONDON CALLING
BRITISH POLICE TACTICS !!
I feel so sorry for the down trodden - I guess the Zim police have
learnt their tactic's from the British Metropolitan Police - I've
watched these cops drag illegal street traders (selling roasted
chestnuts or hotdogs) into alleys and beat heck out of them at Oxford
Circus and Regent Street at 10 - 11 o'clock at night. Apparently the
illegal street traders can make 50-100 pounds in half an hour & the
police can only fine them 20 pounds! So the illegal street traders
would pay their 20 pound fine and be straight back to their `brazen
fire' trolleys selling chestnuts again to try and make a penny to
send back to their families in Eastern Europe, Iraq etc! As they can
never afford lawyers etc the police get away with beating them up! In
the basement of the Bond Street Internet Cafe there is a side room
that the plain-clothed police use to take suspected pick-pocketers -
and Boy! from what I've seen going on in there you don't ever want to
be caught by these plain-clothed-cops - the second they have the
handcuffs on the suspect - the suspect is suddenly sprawled all over
the floor & thoroughly beaten up during the next ten minutes while
waiting for the police van to arrive to take them to the police
station!! London's communist Lord Mayor is cleaning up the streets
and you don't want to see what the police do to street beggars &
comatosed drunkards!
Do you think people will read about all this brutality in 200 years
time & think about what a primitive world it was that we lived in! Oh
well - back to see how the biltong I'm making is doing... mid summer
temperature in London today is...12'c (if the sun comes out they say
it will shoot up to a max of 20'c for 1 minute... before the sun
disappears behind the clouds again!!) Bbbrrrrrr.....
"THE REAL ART OF CONVERSATION, IS NOT ONLY TO SAY THE RIGHT THING
IN THE RIGHT PLACE,
BUT TO LEAVE UNSAID THE WRONG THING,
AT THE TEMPTING MOMENT."
THINK !
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it
entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample
opportunity - even under the most difficult circumstances - to add a
deeper meaning to his life. He may remain brave, dignified, and
unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget
his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the
chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities
of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford
him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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