Difficult Times Make Me Stronger Today I was up early before the sun rose to get to the SASSA office to collect my gold card again. They had sent us a message saying I should collect it after initially my application was denied. I get into the office and I am sent to a specific […]
Next Challenge-Life The 94.7 cycle race in Johannesburg is a popular event on the annual calendar. Thousands of professional and amateur cyclist’s cycle 94.7 km through Joburg I will be one of those pushing to get to that checker flag. As far as I know I have never cycled in a competitive race before, well […]
Soooooo Excited Early this morning-very early I rolled from bed, stumbled to our lounge bounced from wall to wall knocking down everything hung or that was gently placed yesterday before me. I then fell against my bead work bench sending my neatly packed boxes of beads across the room as if they were pieces of […]
I Am Happy Today is a great day to be alive. In Jhb we have just had the first rains of our summer. The smell was amazing…not I cannot smell anymore but in truth I forgot about the most amazing smell which the first rains bring along as the droplets fall from our skies. I […]
Grab Your Things I’m Going to Take You Home There’s a saying; home is where the heart is. This I know but I lost my home, I lost that feeling for a long time. Now I have it back I am going home. We are going home back to where it all started-Riverglades. Riverglades is […]
Sing, Dance, Celebrate, Live Since my accident I see life in a different way. Yesterday my good friend Jeremy came to visit. Jem lives in Balito which is an amazing spot. If I get the opportunity to be in Balito I would love for us to sit with our wife’s at the coast and just […]
The Mind Shall Wander I have been at home a while now-over three years. Another Monday is about to wake, the birds have woken and the darkness is fading away. Soon now the hum of the highway shall become louder until it reaches its peak. As the day becomes brighter so the hum disappears for […]
Bevan’s Brain A while ago my good friend Jason and I were up to no good whilst we were up in Hoedspruit. We started a series of comical stories it all started when we were sitting and drinking I wanted to record our conversations as I thought one day we can re-listen to them and […]
It’s the Excitement 2am I am up and awake, not awake and up. There is a big difference; my daughter Cammy would say ‘Think about it’. Why would I be awake at two am as awake as can be ?To be honest I did initially think it was about five but when I heard no […]
Five Thousand Kilometers So I ask Ange; ‘Do you think I can row across the Atlantic Ocean?’ ‘You can do whatever you put your mind to.’ Says Ange. I have applied to canoe across the Atlantic Ocean with Riaan Manser on this epic journey he is calling it “The Odyssey 2018” this will be a […]