History's Walk B&B in Dundee, Kwazulu-Natal: 01/09/2009

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McDonald's Sword - by an unknown author

"The campfire was red on our faces, but despair in our hearts were black.
We'd fought, we'd fought, we'd failed - they had beaten us back and back.
Ourt country's flag and her honour to us had been given in trust.
Her honour we'd lost on the mountains; her flag we'd dragged in the dust.
Ah, many a comrade still lying on that stark hillside.
We'd envied with bitter longing; would to God we had also died.
Sweeter were death than capture, sweeter were death than shame-
The shame that our pride had yielded to a foe of despised name.

And our captain gave his sword up; its blade tonight was dim;
The sword his comrades gave him to show their pride in him.
He gave it up in silence, but we who knew his heart
Could guess the wild regretting, the biting pain and smart.
To yield his sword is an anguish that cuts a man full sore.
But his had a sting still keener, for he gave it up to a Boer.
They took it too, in silence that sternly quiet band
And read of the honour that won it as they passed it from hand to hand.
Then spake their leader in words low and plain,
'We take not the sword of a brave man'. and they handed it back again.

Many a sun o'er Majuba, since then had risen and set.
Many a year has fleeted since Boer and soldier met.
The winds of life have scattered them, scattered them wide and far.
Those men from down the mountain now carry a heart-deep scar.
But wherever our paths may wander, wherever our winds may blow
To us who stood round that campfire that faded to long ago,
No scornful speech may be uttered of the Boer, nor contemptuous word
For as long as life is in us, we'll remember - McDonald's Sword."

Michele, or Vlooi, to her friends

Watch this space...

Vlooi's (that is Michele, for all you dodo's who still do not know) is an artist with a barnstorming approach to life. When her French/Dutch ancestry takes hold of her, she plummets through the walls of convention with regular monotony. (sometimes with no regard to spilling blood.)

She drives our B&B with all the aplomb of a frontier girl, she takes no shit from no one, and she handles money with such style that my eyes never stay in their sockets.

Go, girl...I did not marry you for your picture perfect looks, you know. The grip you have on the world makes it scream!

Me....

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