3-18pm
It seems impossible that I have thirty years of adult history under my belt! I came to Cape Town from Zimbabwe at the end of 1982. On 1st January 1983, I began my nursing career at Somerset Hospital. Initially I lived at Woodstock Hospital’s nurses’ home as Somerset’s was not yet complete. Next to me was Ann Parsons as she was then…now she is married with two boys and I have not seen her since 1987! Today we got together to catch up all the multitudes of mainly family events that have happened in the interim.
Ann has not changed. She is still the chatty, bubbly person I remember from all those years ago… an ideal nurse, practical and sensible and caring. It was wonderful to see her after all these years. We must do it again before too many more years have passed! There are not many of our fellow nurses still in Cape Town. They seem to be spread all over the world.
I came home, via the Mall, picked up one or two things and am now about to post this blog and get on with an article on the history of Olive Oil! What I am learning is that Olive Oil goes back to Old Testament times, when olive oil was also used as soap, as scent, as a cure for illness, a tanning lotion and furniture polish! In the book of Leviticus written between 538–332 BC we read in chapter 24 vs 2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. ” How about that! It’s amazing what you find in the Bible!
Short and sweet today!
It’s the weekend!
Enjoy!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂