The ring

Engaged!

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September 8th 2009
On our final night in Cape Town Simon presented me with a big sparkly ring. Unfortunately the proposal wasn't what I had dreamed it would be as he got down on one knee in our room at the Long Street Backpackers which may be a perfectly adequate hostel but is not in any way romantic. He says he was going to do it up Table Mountain but the weather was against us. But he said some very soppy things ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more