Progress Belongs to those who Start.
Physical comedy: still on point after 80. Despair: rising with forgotten faces. Farewell: deep and sore. Alida Johanna van Blommestein was a woman of strength, quirks, excess mother-love, and a strange, long-lasting fling with Spice Girl platforms. Quad-bike accidents after sixty, ice cube dining, taxi extravagance, and an unyielding passion for berry farm cheesecakes. Pietersburg 1938-10-05 — Parys 2022-06-06....
Tom Gillespie, fifth among eight siblings, was born in 1907 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. After initially embracing barber-hood, military life caught his fancy. He served, got married, cut hair, served again, then settled in Kimberley. In 1947, at only 40, he concluded his life's whirlwind adventure, leaving a legacy of an absent father and husband, despite the merits earned in...
Venturing into an insomniac's tumultuous mind, this piece explores the aftermath of losing a loved one through reckless behaviour. You'll find musical shadowy games, a bed strewn with ghostly memories, and burning anger that would make even a chilli pepper sweat. Comforting sleep? It's playing hard to get, as usual....
