Ruth Taylor Stott

Black Mamba Under My Bed Ruth Taylor Stott

FEELING TRAPPED OR BORED AFTER MONTHS OF LOCKDOWN?
Remember Ruth Taylor who taught at TREVERTON, RUSTENBURG and PINEHURST?
You pleaded with her to share her life's adventures in a book. Now happily married, with 6 step children & 18 grandchildren, she still travels & lives life to the full.
- Read about her early life in Sea Point, Simonstown and Rondebosch where her late father Noel Taylor became founder headmaster of Westerford, one of South Africa's top performing schools.
- Share the miracle of baby Sammy, a diminutive Xhosa baby dying of malnutrition who survived because he was hidden by the Taylor family during the cruel Apartheid era.
- Meet Ruth's eccentric fellow passengers as she leaves home at 19, and travels by train to Mooi River to become a founder teacher at Treverton in 1964. Re-kindle fond memories of dearly loved headmaster Dr Derek Hudson Reed and his pioneering staff.
- Travel to the Holy Land where Ruth floats in the Dead Sea and flees amorous bogus guides.
- Share joyous, nostalgic & heart stopping moments ...
An encounter with Neil Armstrong and his crew after their 1969 moon landing. A black bear smacks its lips outside her tent. A deadly mamba slithers from under her bed. Supper at Buckingham palace, works in a London supermarket and is asked to be stripper in a biscuit factory, acts as an impromptu bridesmaid, flees a tsunami threat, acts as a Kenyan undertaker, falls in love with Thailand and is overjoyed to become an Auntie!