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So, Sean has left home!:

Ill 10 years 4 months | Physical Advantage CBD / Mental Deuce

(C) 2017 Edward C Lunnon

So, he has left home not because he’s angry or because he’s had enough or because I’ve angered him (at least I hope not).

He’s left home because the time has come for the chicken to leave the nest. Funnily, just the other day I attended a meeting where the discussion was about the impact on the world economy because children worldwide are leaving home later and later in life.

Sean is 25 this year and earns his income from the auto industry. Up until now, he’s lived at home benefitting from his mother’s excellent cooking and Barbara’s washing and ironing, my paying of the domestic accounts and Phillip’s D-I-y skills and unusual sense of humour!

On 1 January 2017, he moved into his own rented flat (just up the road, mind you!)

He now faces the wrath of the world’s economy – and the principles of supply and demand. He faces his own shopping, and domestic chores, and cooking. Thank goodness, his Mom has trained him well. I look forward to the invitation to that first meal.

In the meantime, I giggled at one of the first whatsapp messages we received on our family group chat. It simple read, Jis Mom, groceries are expensive!

It’s a sad time in our lives ( yet another!), but it’s also a glad time. After all, this is the moment for which we as parents have spent the years preparing our children.

The time has come.

We wish Sean all the best fortune as he heads out on the sea of life. May he find the grocery bargains and may the wind often come from behind.

We, and I especially, shall miss you son.

But the time has come. The world awaits you. It is your oyster.

Go well. Hamba kahle.


Source: BrainStorms – Ed Lunnon’s Blog.

So …:

(C)2017 Edward C Lunnon | ILL 10 years 4 months | Physical Adv CBD / MEntal Deuce

So, it’s three in the morning, I’ve been awake for an hour, tossing and turning, and now I’m writing.

I fell asleep last night in my clothes at about 8pm. My body is tired.

Some fifteen of Pera’s junior primary department were around for supper, and if that’s happening then one knows that it’s the beginning of another new year.

Arguably, Grey is the best school in the province. That makes this the best Junior Primary Division in the province, these teachers the best in the province and Pera, the best JP HOD in the province.

Whatever, the cream of Port Elizabeth’s young boys are placed in their hands at the beginning of each year, and what ever comes out of the pipeline in twelve years time, starts here with theses ladies. That’s quite a responsibility …

Which reminds me that my Sub A teacher ( Grade 1), Mrs Rice, has just passed away at the age of 102.

Now that is something that I would have phoned Ingrid about to share with her, but when I woke up at two, I recalled that I should phone Ingrid, but then I remembered that I couldn’t. She wouldn’t answer! She isn’t home …

Anyway, I digress..

After supper, Pera at her best, I went to lie down on my bed, ready for the Golden Globe awards. I woke at two, … no Golden Globes, no ladies, no pyjamas, and a blaring TV on CNN talking about the Village Idiot.

So now my daily dosage of pills of all colors, shapes and sizes is messed up, the cramps begin and the mind starts playing tricks, the “now I’m getting used to the hallucinations” thing.

But no sleep …


Source: BrainStorms – Ed Lunnon’s Blog.

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