Jan's Memoirs

Our European Tour: Part 2 – London🇬🇧
This was my very first visit to this huge city and one I had dreamt about visiting. Luckily Phyllis had taught at schools in the

Our European Tour: Part 1 – Cape Town to Southampton 🚢
After Nicolette’s birth in 1963, we were ready to go visit Europe with the dual purpose of touring many different countries but also for me

And then we were three…!
Not long after our wedding we started hearing questions like, “When do we get the good news about a family? “etc. We had to get

Killick: My first Alsatian
I well remember one afternoon in March 1959, because a chance meeting was ultimately going to be a life changer for me. As I was

Our journey to married life
Our journey started in 1958 at the Simon’s Town school where we were both teachers but had not yet been formally introduced to each other.

Our forever home
Before our wedding Phyl and I regularly discussed and planned our future road ahead. Looking back on that time, it may have been a bit