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One of the reasons that we lived quietly and relatively safely in SA is that we live deep in back-country. And unlike a part of SA where people don't mix much we've been quite involved with the local Zulu clan and we're going to miss them. And miss the local way of doing things. Some rich asshole coming fishing up here, came too fast up and too ( Read more... )

Well, we have a written offer for the house, which we've accepted. Now we wait to hear if their bank accepts it. And then... well, once mor into the unknown.

I planted two olive trees here (and a ton of other stuff). A piece of my heart will always stay here. Now it's just dog and cat hurdle...

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090826112201120C542874

South Africa is up in arms because the international athletics association dared to question Caster Semenya's gender. The local politicos are screaming racism - Which is mildly odd, if predictable. Not that South Africans aren't racists often enough but sport is the one area where South Africans do push racism aside if means winning ( Read more... )

This vile thing is my lungs now. I'm in for a lovely night, methinks. Oh well, mother nature's last chance to prove me right. I'm supposed to be dead. (half my family going back the last 3 centuries or so, lived to be a pain-in-the-posterior to their great grandchildren, and the other half - the asthmatic ones - died before 50. I spent years ( Read more... )

Having worried about the boys it would appear I now have at very least a rotten cold if not flu of some sort. I went to school play Thursday last... plague zone ;-)

Barbs and I have started a new blog together - basically about the trials and tribs of moving and adapting to what will be something of a Robinson Crusoe life. At the moment still beta-testing Flinders Family Freer and introducing the lovely Mrs Monkey to blogging. There is some alarm at this :-)

Well, another relaxing weekend of work... and no fires. I do love writing, but the AWOL gene is pressing at me ( Read more... )

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