You don’t easily forget the place where you first tasted condensed milk from the tin. I recently rode a fat bike around the Southern Cape town where I’d grown up, and I was pleasantly surprised by how lovely everything still was. The infrastructure is being well maintained. I’m proud of where I come from.
Santie wrote in my matric autograph book: “May all your problems be small ones.”
IT’S EASY TO GET TRIPPED UP when you retrace the steps of your youth. “Name, surname, animal, town” may thus be altered to protect some parties from embarrassment, unhappiness or feelings of hurt. Also to protect the man himself, who keeps looking over his shoulder as he rides his bike.
Nostalgia and memory games are like a large jigsaw puzzle full of wheatfields and mountains and blue sky. Many puzzle pieces
