Yesterday, our recently adopted Griffon Terrier went missing. He loves to ferret down any hole he can find so this was not an exceptional occurrence. An extensive search was launched until, to our total horror, we spotted a lifeless form jammed between the âfridge and a wall.
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My wifeâs nephew who had come top in a very competitive airline pilot job interview, but was subsequently found to have a heart condition that would prevent him becoming an airline pilot, but also cause him to lose his current flying job, has just got the results of further medical tests and is OK to continue flying. This means that he and his new wife can emigrate to the UK and my sister-in-law and her husband can escape collapsing Joâburg too.
This isnât 'post-Apartheid âwhite flightâ itâs about people being able to leave a situation where theyâre increasingly without electricity or water for 18 hours a day!
And thatâs before we get round to discussing the murder rateâŚ
After completing his MFA in photography one of my Zim students spent the next year bravely documenting farm seizures (including that of his parents) and was voted Magnum Young Photographer of the Year.
After so much early career excitement, he became a very successful commericial photographer in the EmiratesâŚ
Very, very pleased for him and what it will mean for his family. Have heard of too many over the years who couldnât get out and unfortunately found out they were right to want to go.
Wishing everyone a rewarding D-Day Remembrance Day. A good time to reflect on alliances that stopped evil in the past, and also a reminder that these can be quite fragile - as we see with the new iteration of the former-superpower United States.
Personally? I secured a summer rental car yesterday so I am mobile to explore final long-term rentals, the boxes of personal belongings I shipped to myself are arriving today - so my US footprint is zero now, and I got a free chocolattine for buying three at Aldi. Trifecta.
