Ma Talbot, the Cow and Great-Grandpa Rex
Lesley Temple Jess Kure This is a story written by my mother, Lesley Kure, of her grandfather, Rex Gerald Camp, and Ma Talbot, who lived in Ixopo village, and the Cow. Ma Talbot baked and cooked divinely, and whenever anybody had to wait in the village for a vehicle to be repaired etc. they would visit Ma for tea and the best of home baked. She listened avidly to all the local gossip, and as Nils said about his friend's mother - the story went in her ears this big ___, and came out her mouth _________________that big. One could see her green eyes gleaming, and her mind embroidering the facts even as she listened. As she was likely to have at least three visitors in a day, the stories grew and grew. We were such an innocent group, all the funny stories had to come from the eccentricities of our elders and their forebears. Ma’s interpretation of someone who was in angry turmoil was that, "He's as mad as a bee in a tar barrel." She would only knit wh...