by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 4, 2020 | On a personal note, Thoughts
About 10 years ago, my father gave me a beautiful watch that had once belonged to my grandmother. I wore it on and off, and shortly after my father died, I went out and in the course of the evening, it slipped off my wrist and I couldn’t find it. I knew that the...
by Suzanne Whitby | Feb 24, 2020 | On a personal note, Thoughts
I grew up with a British-born father, who, even though he moved over to South Africa at the tender age of 3 years old, was quite the lover of the mother country. In some respects, he was more British than that Brits, having been brought up as an immigrant in a new...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 26, 2017 | On a personal note, Thoughts
Last week, we stayed in a lovely B&B in a medieval town called Dürnstein in Lower Austria. The people were wonderful, the food delicious, the wine even better but the weather… Meh. It could have been better, especially considering that my winter and cold-weather...
