Salisbury to Bulawayo.

8.)At the end of 1966 we left Salisbury and moved to Bulawayo to start a new chapter in our lives.We were to spend six happy years there.

My Dad was to take over the recently acquired Pest Control,not to be confused with the opposition Paul,s Pest Control.He really got stuck in and worked hard but it was an up-hill battle because Paul,s was very well known and established in Bulawayo.Amongst many changes and improvements was the television ad that became very well known in Bulawayo : phone Bill Coffey at Pest Control,tel 5070.

We moved into a big house in the suburb of Burnside,just off Burnside Drive.It was a huge property mostly bushveld,with a small stream running through the bottom of the garden.Our gardener Japhet came across an injured pigeon which we nursed back to health,we named him Pidgie.

Sunday evenings after my parents had taken their "sundowners" on the front stoep we would have a curry and rice dinner in front of the tv watching "Daktari".This was a series about an english family living on a game reserve in darkest Africa.Just up the road from us lived a well known tv personality - Sonja Hattingh,she was on RTV(Rhodesian Television).

My younger sister Deirdre and I were en-rolled at Hillside Primary School,many miles away.However we had to ride to school on our bicycles,this was quite a daunting task especially for my small sister.