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  SUPA-FIT & Mechanical Workshop Now situated at plot 281, 3rd Avenue, Bredell, SUPA-FIT & Mechanical Workshop is the ideal place to have your car or truck serviced, repaired or get a new set of tyres and batteries. Services Full Service & General Repairs Oil Lube Service Wheel Alignment New Tyres Mag Wheels Exhaust Free Flow Exhaust Tow bars Roll Bars Shocks Brakes Brake Skimming Truck Tyres Suspension Repairs CV Joints Batteries Turbo Conversion Roadworthy Spray Painting Supa-Fit are now getting well-established at their new mechanical workshop premises in Bredell. The Supa-Fit  website  shows that their setup is pretty good, and they always strive to maintain a high standard of workmanship. Supa-Fit is an RMI registered mechanical workshop. Give them a call. You'll find their prices reasonable and their service friendly. Footnote: They are servicing trucks as well.

On 1 December 1973 I married the love of my life, Maggie. We decided to go away for the weekend and came home afterwards to discover that my mother had suffered a stroke. My first son made his appearance the following year – we called him Mark. After that we moved to Cape Town where my second son, Michael was born. I thought Cape Town was going to be a fantastic place to live and work in but after two years we moved back to Johannesburg. Fortunately, a company that supplied coal crushing machines and conveyor belts to the mines employed me and I was rewarded with a salary increase, back pay and a December bonus that year. I bought a white Ford Cortina because we needed a car. Life seemed very good but in January the following year my supervisor walked into my office and casually told me that I was being retrenched. I had two months to find another job and leave. I recently Googled my old company and discovered that they had been taken over by a bigger UK-based company. I was just consi...

Last Night I had a Dream The Good Bible says that in the last days old men will dream dreams. Just mentioning that to sketch a better picture about the subject of dreams I recall a dream that Jacob had. “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And behold, the LORD stood beside him, and said: 'I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac.” Wikipedia . “Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it." His brothers said to him, "Do you intend to reign over us?” Bible Gateway . “Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream telling him to flee to Egypt with Mary and the infant Jesus since King Herod would seek the c...

  Something I could watch and not get tired. Hope you enjoy it like I did.

  “And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” Matthew 7:27. We focus on the natural a lot of the time and wonder why these storms are wreaking havoc in our lives. We long for the peace that we experienced for a moment. A while ago I wrote about a storm: I woke up to a fight of heavyweights sparring in a ring above us in the heavens. Each thundering messages and challenging the other to a brutal fight for the championship, a real ruckus as I was disturbed from my sleep at 3 a.m. in the morning. That was in October 5 years ago . Just last week we had another one of those storms. My first reaction was to pray. I said to my wife,” Why do we always get these noisy, violent storms on the Highveld where we live?” I’m not particularly fond of storms, but they come whether I like it or not. In the mornings I usually spend some quiet time before the hustle and bustle of the day starts. It’s like an anchor to my ...

Today I visited a few people and arrived back at home at about 12:30 just after noon. When I stopped in my driveway outside my gate I was greeted by two very concerned parents. They were making very irate squeaks about something in the vicinity. I thought their behaviour very unusual but realised that something very drastic was wrong.   Being a very considerate neighbour I kept my cool and climbed out of my car to open the gate. The racket continued as I parked my car inside the yard. These parents were very irate. As I stopped the car I told my wife Maggie about their strange behaviour and as I got out I noticed two little chicks scurrying into a vegetable patch. By then Maggie had closed the gate and I called her to come and have a look at the chicks. They clearly belonged to the parents outside our gate who were worried that our dog would hurt them. Our first response was to call our dog into the stoop enclosure so that she was safely out of the picture. I then walked to ...

  Swimming Pool Nets - Saving Lives How fortunate I am to play a small part in encouraging swimming pool owners to ensure that their pools are safe. I count myself lucky to be involved with a company like SA Pool Nets and Covers that manufactures and installs swimming pool safety nets. Because of them hundreds of drownings are prevented every year. The owner, Louis, approached me in December 2012 to create a website for his company. Seven years of creating awareness regarding swimming pool safety. That's how I see it. The photo at the top of the page came to my inbox from Google telling me that more than 20 000 people have viewed the image since it has been put up on the Internet.  It's not the most glamorous picture but you can bet that it brought a profound message to the visitors viewing it. That picture and the others on the website together with the review I wrote for Louis' company have prompted many visitors to have swimming pool nets and covers installed in their po...