Luky;
Reading about the silkworms that did the rounds between the three houses made a lot of things clear to me. It also reminded me about the time when my eldest had already left home. There were pets everywhere, we had seventeen at one stage. One evening when we had all begun watching Magnum PI, I left the children watching the programme and went into the kitchen. As I was working there, some of the children came in to talk to me, which was unusual during the programme. They were speaking in gentle voices, and saying complimentary things to me. When I wanted to leave the kitchen, the children seemed to be gently in the way each time, still speaking quietly and lovingly. Back in the lounge the other children were with the guinea pigs. When we first got the two guinea pigs, I had been told they were two brothers. It turned out they were a boy and a girl, and the little mother was busy giving birth to her babies in the lounge while I was in the kitchen. There were nine pets when Magnum started, and nineteen when it ended. You have no idea what I went through to find good homes for them all when they were older...
Catherine Nicolette;
Knowing my siblings as I do, the minute I heard about the gentle voices and the compliments, my elder sister radar went on full alert. Something had been going on... and indeed it had.
*Photograph of a beloved family pet in South Africa
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