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The Nature of Numbers

By Tom Brown on Thu, 27 Feb 2020

For interest's sake we discuss different types of numbers: ordinals, cardinals as well as measures, and just names. The first is a count in order as...

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N1 Highway

By Tom Brown on Mon, 03 Feb 2020

This stretch of road they call the hell highway, past near that familiar silhouette of the famous ghost house of Pretoria. My brother had an accident...

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Our President

By Tom Brown on Mon, 16 Dec 2019

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa A High School Essay December 2019 The apartheid secret police had him in solitary for eleven months. Can you imagine how...

Biography

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Personal pronouns

By Tom Brown on Wed, 06 Nov 2019

Once I asked an inmate his name he said he was Jesus. So I asked if they just called him that? Or was he ..? And he replied gravely “I am He.”...

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Showdown

Posted on Sat, 01 Aug 2020

Showdown. Very sad it made me think of a leper. Excellent.

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Joy was just a thing

Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2020

Joy was just a thing that he was raised on, love was just a way to live and die &&

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A beautiful pattern

Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2020

A beautiful pattern yes it could be an African motif? The right word? A lovely little story women like that are scarce these days.

Hamba gachle! Go well! Tom Brown

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Posted on Sat, 27 Jun 2020

27 comments plus this one. That takes some doing.

To be honest, I feel a bit jealous. Tom

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I found the strangest thing

Posted on Mon, 29 Jun 2020

I found the strangest thing about living alone is having your meals alone. Just instant oats and banana bread. One thing though you can get a terrific amount of work done.

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Like your husband here Janet

Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020

Like your husband here Janet, my mother said she was glad she lives in the 20th century for the modern medicines and doctors. It does make sense we are spared a lot of sufferring. Ironically and tragically she herself suffered terribly at the end...

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Thanks Claudine

Posted on Thu, 04 Jun 2020

Thanks Claudine. Glad to hear from you. I do have many semi-biography stories like this already in my collection "WILD" but there still are many more.

Thank you very much for the superb work as an editor we appreciate it greatly. I am a...

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Just goes to show

Posted on Sun, 24 May 2020

Just goes to show, a dog is a man's best friend! What is your favourite dog breed Richard? They say the most popular breed worldwide is a Labrador retriever. When I was young I had a Rottweiler - Doberman cross. Bloodthirsty murderous a killer....

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It doesn't

Posted on Mon, 25 May 2020

It doesn't look like democracy works.

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I've got the same

Posted on Mon, 13 Apr 2020

I've got the same problem. Technophobia. What is twitter? Fasebook? Do you know? Is there a meanual? These hundreds of the newfangled things like apps and viewtube serious I don't know anything about it. A waste of time if you ask me. I do Abc...