My family and my British friends
I met Cathleen, who became my best friend at the band which we regularly attend. I was strongly attracted to her. This worried me when she told me she had a partner. However, my worry turned to relief after she disclosed that her partner was a girl, not a bloke! Our sense of humour was similar, whenever we were together there would be laughter. We were both loud, often getting odd looks from our…..
My second book co-authored with my mother, Rosemary Venter, is now available:
“Born in Africa: Uprooted by the Winds of Change
The Story of One Family’s Life in Africa from 1928 to the Year 2000″
This book covers the social history during times of transition which were painful to all the people of Southern Africa. The storms of upheaval affected everyone, no one was left free of stress, trauma was to be found…..
Saturday 18th July 2015
Last night I was eating a large supper with Hiển, when my music theory teacher, Roger Hansford, phoned me with the news that I’d passed my grade 6 music theory exam. The pass mark is 66%, I achieved 70%, he was pleased, although I had hoped to get more, at least a merit, i.e., over 80%. A merit would have meant double the points I’ll need for my application to enter University one day.
…..
Roger, my teacher, delivered my certificates to me today.
When he phoned I was busy getting breakfast. It was noon. I told him I wasn’t dressed. Then I thought to ask, “Where are you?”, thinking he expected my to fetch my certificates from his home.
“I’m downstairs.”
I thought he meant he was waiting in his car in the yard. I was too excited to wait and dress, so I rushed down in my gown, opened the door and:
“AHH!” we both…..
22nd July 2015, Wednesday.
I caught the 9:30am bus to Southampton University for Hoa’s graduation.
I reached the Turner Sims at the start of her ceremony. I had no ticket to enter, nonetheless I spoke to the doorlady kindly, she let me in, as I noticed there was a single empty seat. I was pleased to be sitting beside a table were I could rest my iPad to video the large screen showing the proceedings taking place inside the auditorium. Some…..
On Saturday the 20th June I wrote my Grade 6 Music Theory exam. I had to wait 6 weeks before the full results were published, though I received my initial results after a month from my teacher, Dr Roger Hansford.
I liked the paper, I thought the questions were fair, no tricky ones. I used the full time allowed, including an extra hour, given to me because I suffer from dyslexia. I would have been lost without that extra hour! I started reading through…..
We spend more than a third of our lives sleeping. How we sleep has an impact on our health as I’ve found to my benefit when I changed the position in which I sleep. By sleeping upright at an angle of 25 to 30 degrees one gains the best results. No more morning headaches or restless nights for me. Other people who I know, have tried this and gained similar benefits.
To prevent my heavy head from rolling to one…..
As a taster, let me tell you that I have co-written a new book with my mother, Rosemary Venter, as my co-author. It is about our life in Africa, before we were “Uprooted by the Winds of Change”!
As soon as it’s published I’ll let you know.
I performed my Grade 3 Clarinet exam on Thursday 13th of November.
I made a bad decision by not listening to Nicola’s advice. She, my clarinet teacher, suggested that I should do my best pieces first, with the purpose of playing myself into the mood as it were, thus giving me confidence for the rest of the exam. Instead I thought I’d first do the parts with which I have difficulty, leaving my favourite ones to the end thinking…..
Recovery
A research paper by Sandy Walker and James Wilson
“Recovery is about building a meaningful and satisfying life, as defined by the person themselves, whether or not there are ongoing or recurring symptoms or problems”
(Shepherd et al 2008).
I wholly concur with the above sentiment and have said for a number of years that I have fully recovered, even though I still need to take daily medication to remain stable. I wrote about stigma…..
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