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Nostalgia and Good food meet at The Fireplace Roadhouse in Boksburg

March 18, 2015 9

If nostalgia were a musical instrument it would be an oboe. Conveying weighty, beautiful music tinged with sadness. Certain places and memories bring a smile pared with an ache somewhere near my solar plexus. I have oboe memories of The Gremlin Drive in roadhouse, when visiting my grandparents in Salisbury as a child. My mother remembers going there with school …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com