Donkeyshott & Xuitlacoche

From the WaterforAll website Chris Hall, a Virgin Atlantic Airlines captain, tells the story of his international effort to organise and lead a hike of Mt. Fuji to raise funds for water pumps installed in Kenya by Water For All. As a captain for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, I fly over a lot of water. Even from thirty thousand feet, when all I could see from the cockpit are clouds and the water down below, I have thought about all the people in the world who suffer from a lack of clean drinking water. I grew up in Kenya, Tanzania and India, so in addition to experiencing the joys of different cultures and people as a child and as a pilot, I have also witnessed abject poverty on every continent. Thankfully, a group named Water For All is making it easy for people like me to do our part to improve access to clean water in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is a good first step in helping to ease poverty as well. Imagine our delight when Jill Rademacher, P...

Mike, David, Tony, John

Granny's garden in Bramley  Granny was always famous for her green fingers. Everything she did, she did almost to perfection. She did it with focus and understanding. She was driven. When she got to South Africa, after being a general administrator at a hospital and surviving the war with her daughter she was relegated to cooking for all the guests that came to their large house in Bramley and looking after the big garden. And the garden looked spectacular. All the plants so healthy. Blooming. When I was born she looked after me too and I am sure that I thrived, just as her plants thrived and my mother thrived. And when in the 60s and 70s they moved to small flats in Paris and Munich and Majorca and then Golfe Juan all her terraces were glorious with flowers and fruit. We remember her little lemon tree in a pot in Golfe Juan. Every year it would produce a big box full of lemons. Granny's and her lemon tree, in Golfe Juan In contrast my mother was sure that she ...

Postcard by HWC The German side of our family comes from this town. Renata and Ruth say that nothing happened in Schlitz during the war, hardly even a plane flew overhead.

Mom is the girl at the bottom, second from the left. Death announced in the Old Kingsmeadians Association two months ago

Photo by John A. D'Souza

Chris took the pictures

 

Elysian Fields, Tony, Eve, Lisa and the Peugeot at picnic by the fig tree  in Little  Serengeti The Peugeot 504 is a legend in Africa. The first models were produced in France in 1968. The same 504 is still coming brand new off production lines in Kenya and Nigeria 38 years later. This is the largest production run of any car, under its own name,* in history. The sedan has won many victories and top places in African motor rallies, from the Paris-Dakar to the East African Safari. The 504 station wagon/estate, the model displayed here, has a heroic and colourful history as a taxi, in and between cities, all over Africa.** For more than four decades, the 504 and its predecessor, the 404, have been part of the magic of East Africa. The sight of them bombing along miles of straight road and winding up and down passes has been so much part of the breathtaking scenery. They have done the epic runs, some of the world’s loveliest and most exciting, fr...