Still on the subject of my blogcation; first there were the Preparations and, then……..
My guest arrives….
We look back.
From 2014 to 1966
Mr Carter’s classes
The Two of Us at Malolo Street 1966
Mr Hodge’s Sunday School Class 1964. St Peter’s Anglican Church ,Father Butler’s residence, Drasa Avenue.
The Beginning : ‘When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more.’ A A Milne
Update: It has been a difficult week. It is tempting to look back to the past and think all was perfect. It was not. As a child I was dumbfounded, and unbelieving, when I realised that, at the age of five, I would be going to Lautoka European School and my best friend would not. Fortunately, those policies were changed within the next few years as Fiji headed towards Independence, and my friend and I were able to spend a short time together at the renamed school. It became Drasa Avenue School.
The events of my current week, and those contained in my post, seem to relate well to this quote
“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”
This is the prayer inscribed on the bronze memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert Louis Stevenson was, amongst many other things, a witness to the colonial history of the Pacific Islands. Clanmother writes (and recites) about Robert Louis Stevenson’s connection to the Pacific here.
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