Architecture in general is frozen music.

(Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, 1775 – 1854)

John Lentell
4 September, 1971

(Photo: my great grandfather John Parker OBE was an architect and the first mayor of greater Cape Town in 1913 – 1915. My grandfather John Kilgour Parker was an architect as were/are my uncles Dickon, Graham and Howard. I have very much enjoyed the music of living in Cape Town for the past two years, for the first time in my life).

“Sometimes my father takes things apart to see why they don’t go.” said the girl to her boy friend.
“So what?” he asked.
“So you’d better go.” she said.

John Lentell
3 September, 1971

(Photo: my progeny and their loved ones – Sydney, Nov 2019)

Andrew Carnegie when asked which he considered the most important factor in industry: labor, capital or brains, replied, “Which is the most important leg of a three-legged stool?”

John Lentell
2 September 1971

(Photo – Ross, Dickon and I, Wellington NZ, Nov 2019)

What is called generosity is generally only the vanity of giving, which we like better than what we give.

(François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 – 1680)

John Lentell
1 September 1971

(Photo – visiting my mum in Wellington, NZ – Nov 2019)

No Deposit, No Interest and 6 months to pray!

John Lentell
31 August 1971

(Photo – on the river, Vermaaklikheid, Xmas 2019)

A man’s as old as he looks when he needs a shave, a woman is as old as she looks just after washing her face.

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
28 August 1971

(Photo: Bruce and I, biNu / Moya office, Cape Town 2019)

“Can I live a good life in Salisbury City on $100 a month?” a young man from Enkledoorn asked.

“My boy, was the reply, “that’s all you can do.”

John Lentell
Rhodesia Herald
27 August 1971

(Photo: Dickon, Ross, Matt and Mark in the garden, Harare ~1979)