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Keith Richardson: June 2015

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Friday, 12 June 2015. We were talking after the memorial service for Mike Lundy, Wynberg Old Boy who matriculated in 1958. He was a popular member of the Hout Bay community as well as an admired and respected author who died recently. The well-deserved praises and laudatory comments flowed. This was exemplified by his son, Guy, when he welcomed everyone to the gathering. ‘He is Cape Town’s Sir Edmund Hilary.’. He recounted how, as a young teenager, he had had a visit from his uncle one Christmas morning ...

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Keith Richardson: July 2014

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Sunday, 27 July 2014. It’s a Tradition! The height of temptation at Littlewood House. As luck would have it, he was met by a bemused duty master who had been hovering in the area. I was summoned from a meeting at school to pronounce judgement. As adults, words tend to fail us in this situation and we revert to rhetorical questions. 8216;What do you think you were doing? 8216;Sir, Sir! They are so interesting! 8216;If I promise not to do it again, can I keep them? But I had already planned my next step an...

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Keith Richardson: January 2014

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Monday, 20 January 2014. A Morning at Leeuwenhof. Johan Bresler certainly knew what he was doing in 1714 when he chose the site in the Gardens on which to build his new residence. With Table Mountain soaring above it, this Cape Dutch residence, with its impeccably manicured gardens, proved to be an imposing venue at which Premier Helen Zille could host the annual Matric awards exactly three hundred years later. 8216;Thank you to all the schools. 8217; said MEC Donald Grant, ‘. Later in the morning, the P...

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Keith Richardson: May 2014

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Tuesday, 20 May 2014. Sir, I am just a Kid. I heard the commotion coming down the corridor outside my office and instinctively knew that something interesting was coming my way. The giveaway was the raised voice of an irate teacher berating a boy. He was informing the unfortunate miscreant in no uncertain term that he was indisputably on direct course for a reformatory followed rapidly by a trip to Pollsmoor Prison. I sighed and waited for the onslaught at my door. 8217; he asked after a while, clearly s...

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Keith Richardson: October 2014

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Thursday, 9 October 2014. Daisies in Darling and other Distractions. It was a week or two before the matric exams started in 2007. Westerford were having their final pep talk with the parents and the matric class of that year. Advice was flowing freely to us parents – many of whom were writing matric again for the first time since our own personal experience many years before. Deputy Principal John Broster had it spot on. I moved on back to my office but not before I heard another group discussing the fl...

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Keith Richardson: May 2015

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Wednesday, 27 May 2015. Stoning Crows and Traffic Policemen. Watching rugby with Old Boy Fritz Bing. I was sitting under one of the trees watching rugby at our recent festival, when one of our Grade 8’s came up to me and started chatting. Obviously I must have looked in need of company. After the usual discussion on how the year was going, he came up with the comment: ‘You must have seen some really cool funny things since you have been at Wynberg.’. With that as my grand finale, I swung on my heel and s...

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Keith Richardson: December 2014

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Monday, 22 December 2014. I Did it, Mom! This Blog is based on the numerous emails from Grade 10’s after they returned from their ten day hike in the Cederberg in December this year. Heading off: Destination Cedarberg. Every boy who volunteered for the Grade Ten Challenge this year - and completed it - has returned with a full understanding of that sentiment expressed by Mandela. I wondered (before the camp) why you kept calling it the Grade Ten Challenge. Now I am in no doubt! That it was the most diffi...

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Keith Richardson: March 2015

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Friday, 27 March 2015. Of Rats and Cats. I don’t know how they kept it secret from me – but they did. ‘We have been planning it since August last year,’ said Shaun Hewett triumphantly. The problem was that I was not expecting anything so I walked right into the trap. 8216;P-e-l-e-a-s-e,’ said Martin Stovold to me, ever alert to social nuances. After I had expressed my surprise that this had come out of the blue, he said, ‘He sat next to her every break! Then an email from Shaun arrived asking during whic...

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Keith Richardson: August 2015

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Wednesday, 19 August 2015. The F-Words of Raising Boys. Times are changing. When I was growing up, saying ‘damn’ was definitely regarded as beyond the pale. As a pre-adolescent I used to love winding up my parents while we were driving through the Karoo by suddenly shouting out ‘damn! 8217; My mother would whip her head round from the front seat and open her mouth to berate me and I would virtuously point out of the window and say sweetly: ‘Look over there, a dam…’. 8216;How was school today? Conversatio...