Gill's Blog (2)

Why is peace still eluding the Middle East? Why? Are we not all praying enough? Is God listening? Can he see the injustices? Does he realise that the Goldstone Report is one sided and has forgotten God's Chosen People's consideration when retaliating after 8 years of thousands of rocket attacks? That consideration included dropping leaflets to warn people that HAMAS was using the buildings as launch sites and that they were going to finally retaliate, so would women children and innocent people… Continue

I climbed my first tree when I was four years old.

It was a gnarled old Jacaranda which bordered our pretty little suburban home in Kumalo, Bulawayo in a then sane kind of Zimbabwe, and the reason for my climb was not altogether my own idea.

“If you climb up the tree..” said older sister Vivien - an elderly 10 year old with red curls and a temperament to match –

“you will be able to see Fairyland.”



Our mum had read us books filled with deliciously magical fairy tales… Continue