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Frank

All three of us stay approx 20 to 25 km away from Durban.

I work near the harbour but don't get to see the sea.(Strange as it may seem)

Regards
Brian

Brian,

I agree with you, I see more of the sea when in Richards Bay or in Hout Bay in Cape Town when on business than in Durban!! Strange but true!

Adrian

Adrain

I am really looking forward to getting my CT lots on Sunday.

I always seem to be working on the weekend they have it, at least I will be off this time.

The last time I went to the Coin and Medal show old Issy was still alive WOW that was some time back! Purchased a Royal Artillery Korea and UN pair from Michael Kaplan for a great price....turned out it was actually a New Zealand pair ! Brett now has it in his marvelous Korea Collection.
Regards
Brian

Brian,

I must say, I am also looking forward to it. Yep, good old Issy, I remember checking out his Imp Mil Railway collection at the show a few years back. I wonder what ever became of all his QSA's??

Cheers
Adrian

Frank

I live in the formerly independent municipality of Kloof, which is located about 20 miles inland from Durban's beaches and at an elevation of 2100 feet. It was established precisely because people needed to get away from the steamy climate of Durban. (Now people live here to get away from everything else about Durban, not just its climate.) Kloof was once described in National Geographic magazine as having a "perfect climate" and it is one of the best places on Earth to live. I know that because the estate agent who sold us our house in 1988 told me so. You wont be surprised to learn that a poet once wrote about it as follows:
"We are aloof in Kloof, home of the master race ........"

We lost our independence after South Africa became a democracy in 1994 and everything, including the climate (because of global warming), has been going downhill since then. We bitterly resent being under the jackboot of the eThekwini Metropolitan Council (formerly the Durban City Council), but resistance is futile.

Visiting Durban is, as a friend once described it, like visiting "Indian territory". (He meant that in the "Wild West" sense and not as a slur on the immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, who do, in fact, abound in Durban.) It is only something like the Coin & Medal Fair that will now tempt me to go down Field's Hill and approach the coast.

Regards
Brett

Adrian

Issy's QSA's and all his other medals are being cared for by his widow in London, to which she very wisely decamped as soon as the dust had settled. As you know, Issy lived not far from what has become Che Guevara Road (formerly Moore Road, I think). Who would want to live in a neighbourhood like that?

Regards
Brett