When my late father had his watch & clock business in Cape Town, he sometimes bartered with a customer for watch or clock repairs or restoration work. I was about 10 years old when on one occasion he accepted a Sunday afternoon outing with his family on the customer’s yacht in Table Bay harbor. I…
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FINNISH FISHING
“Don’t fall in the water again!” Annsi shouted from the jetty, as he climbed into the boat with Andrew. “Funny! My sides are splitting with laughter,” I shouted back just as he started the engine. I stood on a different boulder from the day before, and cast into the pine tree-fringed alcove, their very own private beach,…