Pony Show

I learned to ride as a child. Living in the country it was what girls did and riding was an afternoon activity once a week at school. All the girls rode, so I did too. I was OK at it, but never in the prize winning league. My memories include: being unable to convince ‘my’ pony to go over any jumps ever; being left hanging from a low branch by another pony determined to find the shortest way home

Fighting Chance

Traditional weapons aren't much use when the cowboys come to town. But if you're lucky they'll give you a sporting chance and fight fair. Duelling swords at dawn....

Up The Cloudy Mountain

Going up Table Mountain in the cable car is an annual treat. A treat because it’s expensive to ride in the cable car. You can walk up the mountain for free, but riding the cable car is priced for tourists and taking the whole family up is a major financial investment.Revolving 360 degrees slowly over the 5 minute trip in the car, you dangle over precipitous heights and see the city shrink in size

Gertrude was a table tennis star

The other day I spotted Gertrude on Facebook. Gertrude isn't her real name, and for all readers know she's fictitious. Take the measurement of a ping pong table in three dimensions and you'd have Gertrude.

She was one of those sanctimonious two faced BS artists who never got pegged since she usually produced reports claiming rules were broken.

When the $1 million cocaine bust went down, she never got caught, nor during the incident of a man's brains bleeding onto a card table as he died looking at a still full plate of food.

Left, back, left, back, for whatever reasons. With Gertrude there's always bad things when she's around.

And around again she is.

The invisible’s they still don’t want to talk about

Over the last week I've continued to speak to different people after the last few months' tirade of 'Give us money or we will put them out' propaganda. More and more people came forward admitting the lack of respect some service providers have been showing.

It's gotten to the point that RUMOR CONTROL is admitting legal investigation by some over the matters of individuals having experienced homelessness having their full identity being made public on the internet by employees of certain services in numerous online social communities.

Putting the word out there about homelessness is one thing. "Outing" people is another, regardless if anyone waves legal releases signed by individuals with a history of mental disorders…and that's just what's happened in one particular case. It's like pawning used auto accessories and claiming innocence when someone gets fried.

The hell of it all is that the CEO of this one agency in particular will disavow responsibility. The individual responsible for pushing 'submit'…he or she'll probably disappear. When things have hit the fan before, it's been known to happen.

…and people wonder why so many still choose to camp out in the woods these days.

Birthday Spoils

Some birthdays are painful reminders of the years passing, hurtling you onwards into incipient middle age. But they can be opportunities for three days of pampering and indulgence, the equivalent of a spring makeover, courtesy of the family pulling out all the stops to spoil you rotten!That is what I got this year and I feel like a new woman, the wrinkles of age banished by a new haircut, a deep