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JustJoy

@justjoy

Retired English teacher. I love hiking and swimming in the ocean. I breathe to write, paint and have fun.

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JustJoy
@justjoy Nov 3, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

Runaway!

At 7 I ran away from home to find my purpose in life and by 11am I was home, starving. No one had even missed me. When I asked 'them' where they thought I was, they replied, 'in your tree house - pro…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Nov 2, 2019, 5:23 AM UTC

The H word!

I love WORDS, https://i.postimg.cc/cCcL59dv/words-hand.png Pixabay Spoken, written, whispered, sung or shouted....... They take me by the hand into vast tracts of ideas and thoughts, fact and fiction…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 26, 2019, 3:19 PM UTC

Fire! Live or Die?

Liz, Nicko and Philippa, new friends of the Survivors' Club trio were delighted to be invited to lunch by Wil. Wil, his fiance Vi and their best friend Lila had thoroughly enjoyed a South African bra…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 22, 2019, 7:21 AM UTC

STORM over the hikers, lightning strikes!

Elizabeth continued with her mountain climb adventure……………… The wind did not blow the clouds away. Within 45 minutes we stopped and with a feeling of dread we put our rain jackets on and secured wate…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 20, 2019, 3:46 PM UTC

Never climb a mountain in a storm…………

Lila opened the website of the ‘Wil, Lil and Vi survivors’ club’ and was delighted to receive an invitation from an avid reader of all the survivor stories that were featured on it. She met Wil and V…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 17, 2019, 10:47 AM UTC

Lion attack! Does the victim survive?

Lila, steaming cup of early morning tea in hand, browsed the website of the “Wil, Lil and Vi Survivors’ Club” and found the most fascinating true story of Harry Wolhuter who was an early ranger in a…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 13, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

The World Rugby Cup, love it or hate it, is ON.

I fell in love with my husband as a teenager and accepted without question his participation and addiction to the game of rugby. Watching him, tall and lean with the ball under his arm flying down th…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 13, 2019, 12:59 PM UTC

Rugby Cup in my house!

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 10, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

Does money makes the world go around?

The short answer to that is 'NO'! Lee and Doug live in Johannesburg. A Zimbabwean works for them as caretaker on their large property combining business premises and a sprawling family home. He went…

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JustJoy
@justjoy Oct 9, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

Trolley day. 5 minute write

It was our first visit to Canada since our daughter relocated to Fort St Johns some years ago. Himself (my husband) and I found communicating with the locals who were apparently speaking English, cha…

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