WHAT WINNING MEANS

WHAT WINNING MEANS

We all want to win, do we not? It is the one thing that every player goes onto the field to achieve and it is definitely the one thing we know when we come off the field, if we have won or not – all of us know that except, in truth, many a young child who runs around...
GET ME OUT OF HERE

GET ME OUT OF HERE

We may at some stage have come across a remarkable lady by the name of Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke, a German-Peruvian mammalogist who will be best known for being the sole survivor at the age of 17 of a flight  from Lima to Pucallpa, which crashed in the...
MUM’S THE WORD

MUM’S THE WORD

At the birth of his child, a father was greatly encouraged and uplifted when he was warmly congratulated by one of his male colleagues on the safe arrival but he was taken aback when the colleague went on to advise him that “So, your work starts in five years’ time.”...
A WHISTLE BLOWER

A WHISTLE BLOWER

Who wants to be a referee? There are two answers to that question. Firstly, no-one wants to be a referee. A referee is for the most part the most unpopular person, with both sides being against him. As Sir Alex Ferguson, the highly successful former manager of...
A STAR GROWER

A STAR GROWER

We may well be familiar with the wonderful story by Loren Eiseley entitled ‘The Star Thrower’, which tells that “a man was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in...