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But Lo there Breaks a Yet more Glorious Day – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: But Lo there Breaks a Yet more Glorious Day: Friday 2 June 2017 | Deuce | Ill 10 years 9 months Our Grey Reunion 2017 celebrations commenced last Wednesday evening with the Selley Concert in the Feathermarket Hall. After the concert, Pera dropped me off at the Old Grey Club. There are always a few die-hards there who stay until the early hours of the morning. My Neighbour Grant Jennings took me home at about two? On Thursday evening we … [Read more...] about But Lo there Breaks a Yet more Glorious Day – Featured Blog

Sunset over Port Elizabeth – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Sunset over Port Elizabeth: Yesterday afternoon I worked a little later than usual and as I left the office the sun was starting to head for the horizon.  I stopped across the road from Bayworld and grabbed my camera.  Those photos are still there... on my camera, but I did snap one with my phone as well.   We've been very fortunate to have a few stunning sunsets the last few days. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily … [Read more...] about Sunset over Port Elizabeth – Featured Blog

Another beautiful morning – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Another beautiful morning: One of the things I like about this time of the year is the fact that we have so little wind.  Over the last few days we've had some stunning days with striking sunsets, but this morning I swung past the beach before work and got a slightly post sunrise photo.  The start of another tough day in the Bay. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. A gargoyle and a knight at the Public Library: Have you … [Read more...] about Another beautiful morning – Featured Blog

9 Things to do in and around Addo National Park – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: 9 Things to do in and around Addo National Park: When you picture a variety of vegetation, geology and mammals in Nelson Mandela Bay then one image comes to mind: Addo Elephant National Park. For years the focus of Addo was to save the Eastern Cape elephant from extinction and thanks to good management and mothering the population grew from only eleven elephants in 1931 to more than 600 elephants at present. … [Read more...] about 9 Things to do in and around Addo National Park – Featured Blog

Donation #68 – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Donation #68: Today's post is a public service announcement.  After putting it off for way too long, I finally had time to pop over to the SA National Blood Service HQ next to the Provincial Hospital to do my second donation for the year, bringing my total up to 68 donations.  It was wonderful to see the donation centre busy for a change and I hope it's a good sign for the future.  Blood is a scarce commodity and can't … [Read more...] about Donation #68 – Featured Blog

Herbert Louis Lunnon – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Herbert Louis Lunnon: 1916 – 1976 Today,  we fondly remember our father, Herbie Lunnon, who passed away some 41 years ago on the farm Leeukuil in the Agter Paarl District of the Western Cape on Sunday, 30 May 1976 at the age of 60. I was 19 and a First year student at Stellenbosch University. Lynette was 23, Ingrid was 15 and June was 10. Some 7 years earlier, in 1969, Dad had suffered a stroke which had left him paralyzed on … [Read more...] about Herbert Louis Lunnon – Featured Blog

Lanzerac Hotel burns – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Lanzerac Hotel burns: An icon of our student days in Stellenbosch has partially burned in the early hours of Sunday morning … Click here: http://ewn.co.za/2017/05/28/fire-destroys-historic-structure-of-lanzerac-estate Source: BrainStorms – Ed Lunnon's Blog. Click HERE to submit your blog to be part of this daily feature. CLICK HERE to get a daily digest of PE Goodness straight into your inbox with the MyPE Monday to … [Read more...] about Lanzerac Hotel burns – Featured Blog

Cemetery fence at St Georges – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Cemetery fence at St Georges: The old Scottish Cemetery at St George's Park was established way back in 1854 on what was the western edge of town back then.  These days the western edge of town is all the way over at Baywest. Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Friday cloud formation: I know I usually post a video from YouTube on Fridays, but today I want to post a picture I took on  y way back to PE from the … [Read more...] about Cemetery fence at St Georges – Featured Blog

Looking out the museum doorway – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Looking out the museum doorway: I'm finally busy going through and editing the pictures I took in Graaff-Reinet a few weekends ago and will start posting about our visit shortly.  One of the photos I found was this one of Miggie standing in the door at the Reinet House museum looking up towards the Drostdy Hotel.  She clearly likes being outdoors a lot more than going through museums. Source: Firefly The Travel … [Read more...] about Looking out the museum doorway – Featured Blog

“We still Bezzy for the Moument” – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: "We still Bezzy for the Moument": A walk around the Reinet House Museum in Graaff-Reinet recently had me wander into the mill house in the backyard.  They're currently busy with restoration work and a hand written sign on a piece of torn off cardboard caught my eye.  I just had to snicker. Clearly somebody asked one of the Afrikaans workers doing the restoration to just put up a sign so that people don't fidget with the … [Read more...] about “We still Bezzy for the Moument” – Featured Blog

This is the Place – Manchester – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: This is the Place – Manchester: Tony Walsh recited his poem at the Manchester vigil tonight – Click here Source: BrainStorms – Ed Lunnon's Blog. Die Roos Gevaar: Today, the day afterthe bomb blast in Manchester, I took my Rooi Gevaar (Red Danger) on its longest trip yet, some 5 km through Newton Park to my hairdresser and back. Thanks to Grant for keeping me looking good. Some comments from a disabled person: Street … [Read more...] about This is the Place – Manchester – Featured Blog

Off the beaten track with a 4×4 in the Bay – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Off the beaten track with a 4x4 in the Bay: One activity perfect for those seeking a bit of adventure is off-roading - or 4x4ing - and if you are looking a muddy challenge, you’re in luck, because things can get quite slippery on the 4x4 routes in Nelson Mandela Bay…Not only are there plenty of 4x4 trails in close proximity to the Bay – like Baviaanskloof, Brakkeduine and Noorspoort – but there are also trails … [Read more...] about Off the beaten track with a 4×4 in the Bay – Featured Blog

Sunrise over the Bay – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Sunrise over the Bay: ot I'm not an early morning person.  Too much of a night owl.  So one of the things I like about winter is the fact that the sun comes up later allowing me to get the occasional sunrise pic.  This is a recycled one but I'm hoping to get a few again soon.  Source: Port Elizabeth Daily Photo. Towers and spires: The historic Public Library along with the even more historic St Mary's Anglican … [Read more...] about Sunrise over the Bay – Featured Blog

Hospice Appeal: Last Night of the Proms – Featured Blog

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Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Hospice Appeal: Last Night of the Proms: Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you and Good afternoon. My name is Ed Lunnon and I am a patient cared for by the St Francis Hospice of Port Elizabeth. Today, we witness the best of the human condition, through song and music and dance. Let’s give Richard and all the artistes a very warm round of applause. But, ladies and gentlemen, just as we witness the best of the human condition, we are all … [Read more...] about Hospice Appeal: Last Night of the Proms – Featured Blog