Morning Mirror Edition 155 - 18/9/2005




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BULAWAYO ROCKS AS THE JACARANDAS BLOOM


BULAWAYO ROCKS !!

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!

Bobby Goosen


CONGRATULATIONS



CONGRATULATIONS

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


CONDOLENCES

With Deepest Sympathy to the families of the following




SYMPATHY MESSAGES




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.

Thank you Roy, David and Paul Themba


TIDBITS


There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

"Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present."


"Life is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it." - Unknown -




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