QMusings

Day One of 2007 and all was quiet in Laverne and Shirley’s Western Cape neighborhood.
Even the usual voluble Ms. Q was quiet. She and Shirley had spent New Year’s Eve doing research long past the Midnight hour. Shirley is a psychologist. If anyone knows how to do research, it’s her.
We were out in the backyard, [...]

Linda Erlank spoke English well. You know someone has command of a language if they can litter their conversation with the latest idiomatic expressions.
Most everyone in the Western Cape area spoke both English and Afrikaans with the exception of Cape Town where English was the standard. Usually everyone spoke English around me but would sometimes [...]

Laverne was on a mission. Her mission was to get Ms. Q to drink beer.
Ms. Q is not a beer drinker.
Beer is OK. I just like wine more. At four-foot-ten-and-three-quarter-inches I have to be choosy about what alcoholic beverage to imbibe. For example, I like cognac. I like Madeira. I like Scotch. Neat.
It was Shirley’s [...]