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"You got to give it a go mate"

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Victor James Browne has good advice after four careers in 88 years. Born between the First and Second World Wars on 11 April 1935, Victor James Browne embodies all the best traits of that Silent Generation – except for one: their famous thriftiness. A gambler all his life, this deceptively mild bookkeeper and skinny cook has always done business the Aussie way: he went big, or he went home. And while he made sure to play by the rules and give everyone a fair go as Australians do, he would also cheerfully bend those rules as far as they could go, as is also the Aussie way. “Because… you got to give it a go mate,” he said with a shrug and a twinkle in his eye. 11 Characteristics of the Silent Generation Summarising his four careers over 88 years on his Facebook profile, this octogenarian simply posted: “I have made – and lost – lots of money”. Those eight words hide over eight decades of fantastic adventures, two marriages, several company listings and the hardest work of all – a lot of
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Vir die agter-agter kleinkinders

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Below are the adventures your ancestor, Alwyn "Ollie" Smit had in his first 17 years. Sorry kiddo, it's all in Afrikaans, but your father (or Google Translate) can translate the captions of whatever photo catches your eye and tell you the rest.  For your ancestral genes helped to shape your body (a bit), but more important, according to the theory of Morphic Resonance , Ollie's memories are all around you and still help to shape your thinking today. So dig in and get to know the adventures of one of the toughest, luckiest, green-fingerest boys that ever walked across the Kalahari desert. Moenie mooi pitte eet nie! Kasterolie sade. My eerste herinerringe was toe ek drie jaar oud was en ons op ‘n klein plekkie genaamd Abiam in die Noord Kaap gebly het. Al was ek toe nog klein, kan ek baie gebeure van daardie tyd onthou. Soos byvoorbeeld toe my pa se broers, oom Floris en oom Andries, by ons aangesluit het met die plan om in destyds se Suidwes plaas te gaan koop. Ons het
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