A Reunion ... or not!

A friend and I were talking about a High School reunion next year, which will mark 40 years since we finished school, it all sounds really awesome and we start a Whatsapp group where people can invite their friends they are all in contact with etc. etc.

Until the reality strikes, half the people in the Whatsapp group never liked me!  I was not the popular one at school, and then worst of all the School Bully is added to the group and starts throwing their weight around, kicking people out of the group and just taking over.  

After a bit of deliberation, I decided than and there to leave the group!

Why?  Do I really want to meet up with people I haven't spoken to in over 40 years, if ever?  Do I want to meet up with people who are only interested in, what you look like, what car do you drive, what do you do? How much money do you have!  NO!!!  I am better than that.   

I want to meet up with people I had something in common with, people who liked me and I liked them and those who are in contact with me!  So No thanks after all the planning and talking about it, I won't be doing a reunion thank you!    I seriously am happy with my own life, my own friends and the people who care about me. 

I am happy for you whatever path you chose in life!  Take Care and enjoy your life :)

Bury my bones in Jo'burg

A friend told me about this song by "Naming James", wow it really stirs up some memories - These are the words to the song

All lyrics copyright Naming James

Bury My Bones in Jo'Burg

From Houghton to Hilbrow, The Doors and The Doll House, Cloud9, The Sunnyside,

singing carols by candlelight, Bimbo's and Tempos, 206 and Tokyo

At the Waterfront and the Carlton to the Rosebank Rooftop Market, Rockey Street to Roxy's

Ellis Park to ESP, Heinrich's and the Skyrink and the cars at the Top Star drive-in

I hear Bassline and the Radium, bikers at the Bohemian, around Kyalami race-track

Cats Pajamas and Carfax, Melville and Yeoville, Kippies, Wits and Northcliff Hill

Zoo Lake, Truth and Bruma, the lights of Louis Botha, Fontana's and Jamesons

Morgan's Cat and the White Horse Inn, the Cool Runnings Dungeo, Castle Corner at the Wanderers

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The Sun will always Shine on this city of gold

So bury my bones in Jo'burg, let it forever be my home

Traffic, taxi's, Ponty, past Oxford street's prossies, City Deep, Main Reef and Westpark Cemetery

Sterkfontein and the JCE, the big top tent at the Boswell Wilkie

Gold Reef City and The Carousel, drinks at the Jolly til they ring the bell, Bulldogs and Bowl's Club

Billy the Bums and the Thunder Gun, cruising through Gilooly's to the crying sirens of the SAP

Emmerentia Dam and Wemmer Pan, chick pies from Riversands, the bridge we built for Madiba

Delta Park and the Market Theatre, the holding cells in Sun City, Lion Lager at the SAB

Leeuwkop and Liliesleaf, deep underneath the SABC, the M1 and the Jukskei

Bryanston to Braamfontein, the heartbeat that holds me, these old streets of Jozi

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The Sun will always Shine on this city of gold

So bury my bones in Jo'burg, let it forever be my home