Bulawayo was treated to some really rocking good fun on Thursday and
Friday nights at the Bulawayo Theatre.
Ex Bulawegian Clint Cunningham and his excellent musical backing
group, treated the Bulawayo Baby Boomers to a magical evening of
music from Joe Cocker, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Bad Company &
many more including the Best from Creedence Clearwater Revival.
There, as their musical backdrop, was the forest scene from The Teddy
bears picnic, only in Bulawayo could this happen.
It was sheer delight to see a few hundred (some grey haired )rock n'
roll fans foot stomping, waving and clapping, yelling and singing and
dancing in the aisles ....
Just the tonic we needed for the country with the highest I.Q. in the
world !! (I queue for fuel, I Queue for bread, I Queue for money !!)
After the show the parties went on till the small hours, one at the
Bulawayo Theatre club where there was some excellent fun and dancing,
one at Ivy league where there was an "after party" and one at Busters
where Rudi Gouma and his talented men were entertaining the rest of
Bulawayo's rock n' roll population.
Thank you to DSTV and Multichoice for this really great treat.
But of course nice things are happening this month ..... its
Jacaranda time!!
My "social secretary" Tracey and I always have had a "Jacaranda
Spotting Competition" and we spotted the first jacarandas within
hours of each other before the end of August which is quite early.
Traceys tree was in George Avenue outside the hockey stadium and mine
was in Burns Drive near the Mater dei Hospital !!
But on a more gloomy note, not all is good when the jacarandas start
to bloom, its bicycle time for both of us, no more driving around to
see who can spot the first blooming jcarandas ...fuel on the black
market today reached an all time high of $100,000 a litre !! That
means roughly that we need $20,000 to drive one kilometre
Who Will Save Our Land & People?
Who will save our land & people?
Who can rescue us from wrong?
We are lost - faint, false & foolish -
We have slighted God too long.
Save the people Lord, our Saviour,
Guide us home from country far;
Holy Fire, consume our rancours:
Thy Kingdom come - in Africa!
Make our land as clean & wholesome
As the white of sea - washed sands
Stretch our vision vast & boundless
As our brown - spread, dusty lands.
Make our people strong & steadfast,
As the hills that claw our sky:
Hear our prayer for land & people:
" God Bless Africa " we cry!
Congratulations to Sidney and Michelle Fourie, "your home has grown
by 2 little feet and lots of love as you have been blessed with a
healthy baby boy." Born the 13th September , Well done to the both
of you. Thinking of you both, love Kev and Cath - Exeter UK
Furmston - Max
Passed away peacefully after a short illness in Cape Town on 13.09.05
aged 85.
He will be lovingly remembered by his children Mike & Lou, Bert & Lols.
Some Balm
Dorothy Day
If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of
faith (and each act of faith increases our capacity for faith), if I
did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total
of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering in this
ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some
balm of consolation poured on their wounds if I did not believe
these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.
