A HOUSE WITH GOOD VIBES

I grew up with the legend of how my parents found our house. The story went that they were buying a cabinet at a second-hand shop when they heard that the former owners of the cabinet were selling their house in Melville. They saw the house and “it had good vibes”, so they immediately bought it for the princely sum of R10 000. It was 1971. My parents lived in that house until they died, in 2008 and 2009, respectively. The cabinet became my children’s