{"id":2245,"date":"2025-06-24T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:23:06","slug":"45-anne-bird-louw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/2025\/06\/24\/45-anne-bird-louw\/","title":{"rendered":"#45 ~ Anne (Bird) Louw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2245\" class=\"elementor elementor-2245\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b94d24 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8b94d24\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b52b992 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3b52b992\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b04395f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7b04395f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">#45 ~ Anne (Bird) Louw<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47dd6b2a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"47dd6b2a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ce16743 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7ce16743\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68147691 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"68147691\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c88b6aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2c88b6aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" src=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-19-39.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-19-39.jpg 900w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-19-39-320x569.jpg 320w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-19-39-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-19-39-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-19-39-7x12.jpg 7w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5fbf7d3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5fbf7d3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">#45 ~ Anne (Bird) Louw<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42f37fbe e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"42f37fbe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-448e7c68 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"448e7c68\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Ek is nie seker wat die impak of belangrikheid van \u2019n mens se skooljare op latere lewe is nie. Al drie my kinders behou na al die jare steeds hegte bande met vriende wat hulle op skool gemaak het. Ek het myself van daardie voorreg ontneem toe ek besluit het om in Stellenbosch te gaan studeer omdat ek daar vir medies gekeur is.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Medies, sal julle vra? Ja \u2013 \u2019n absolute katastrofe! Ek het net drie maande uitgehou en dit toe laat vaar. Met \u2019n gekneusde ego en \u2019n vaste oortuiging dat ek tot niks beters in staat is nie, het ek die volgende jaar teruggegaan universiteit toe en drie jaar later \u2019n BA-graad in Frans en Engels verwerf.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">N\u00e1 \u2019n jaar by die Uniegebou vir Buitelandse Sake het ek vinnig besef dit is \u2019n doodloopstraat (duh!!!) en het ek by Tuks vir \u2019n LLB ingeskryf. Tussen trou en drie kinders het ek in 1990 my passie ontdek vir doseer en vir Familiereg, toe ek in die Privaatregdepartement as junior lektrise aangestel is. \u201cAnd the rest, as they say, is history.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2251 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy-1200x1600.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy-320x427.jpg 320w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Anne-Bird-2025-copy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Ek het twee jaar gelede, n\u00e1 meer as 30 jaar, afgetree uit my pos by UP en woon nou in die enigste \u201cslow town\u201d in Suid-Afrika: Sedgefield, ook bekend as \u201cthe gateway to heaven\u201d.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">As ek terugdink aan my skooljare, is my oorheersende gevoel een van afwesigheid \u2013 beide fisiek en geestelik. Soos Plankie dalk onthou, was haar huis (die naaste aan die skool) \u2019n gereelde toevlugsoord. Ek kan nou nog nie glo met watter gemak ons so dikwels doodluiters net by die hek uitgeloop het sonder dat iemand ons probeer keer het nie.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Die enigste klasse wat ek vaagweg onthou, is my Engelse klas en Mnr Schreuder wat my gevra het: \u201cTo sing your prose, Bird,\u201d en Mendel se wette van oorerflikheid uit my biologieklas.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Behalwe vir my gereelde fisiese afwesigheid van die skool, was my kop ook meestal elders en vol muisneste. Ek het altyd met ouens uitgegaan wat heelwat ouer was as ek, en het uiteindelik getrou met \u2019n man wat 12 jaar ouer is. Hy word volgende jaar tagtig.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Behalwe vir Ingrid en Nampie, was Biebie van Biljon (Adele se niggie) deur al die jare my boesemvriendin. Ons het nie kontak gehou nadat sy Australi\u00eb toe is nie. Ek onthou ook kuiers saam met Maudie, Odette, Nuts en Nkwe.<\/span><\/p><p><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2250\" src=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-37-07-1200x1232.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-37-07-1200x1232.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-37-07-320x329.jpg 320w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-37-07-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-37-07-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/parkies75.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/PHOTO-2025-06-09-07-37-07.jpg 1370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">Ek is nog besig om gewoond te raak aan die aftrede-ding. Ek mis die intellektuele stimulasie wat ek by die universiteit gehad het, maar lees verwoed, doen pilates, line dancing, en stap elke dag \u2019n uur saam met Remi, my Duitse herdershond. Ek reis ten minste een keer per jaar oorsee na my dogter Ninon en haar man in Maastricht, en sorg dat ek sommer \u2019n paar ander plekke ook sien terwyl ek daar is.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">As my dogter nie in September Suid-Afrika toe kom nie, sien ek julle by die re\u00fcnie.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> is nie seker wat die impak of belangrikheid van \u2019n mens se skooljare op latere lewe is nie. Al drie my kinders behou na al die jare steeds hegte bande met vriende wat hulle op skool gemaak het. Ek het myself van daardie voorreg ontneem toe ek besluit het om in Stellenbosch te gaan studeer omdat ek daar vir medies gekeur is. Medies, sal julle vra? <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkies75.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}