The 1970’s (4): The Rhodesian Bush War from a child’s perspective

March 18th, 2007

What do I know about the Rhodesian bush war? Pretty much nothing, all I know was that I was very young, didn’t understand it and that it affected our way of life quite a bit in those early years.

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March 18th, 2007

The 1970’s (3): We’re all going on a summer holiday!

March 8th, 2007

We seemed to have plenty of holidays in those days. The school year was broken up into 3 terms with long periods of holiday breaks in between.

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The 1970’s (2): Hey ho! It’s off to school we go.

March 6th, 2007

Amazingly, as a 5-year old in 1975, I remember my first day ever at infant school entering ‘KG1′– as the yearly system was known in those days, before they became known as ‘grades’. I ‘think’ KG was in reference to King George or something to that effect and was a seriously outdated system by the time that I started school.

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The 1970’s (1) Home is where the heart is…

March 6th, 2007

Well, I guess not many of us can remember much of what happened in the first 10 years of our lives. I know in my own life I have random flashes of memories, most of them full of contentment and security.

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