Happenings of Late

-Baby G found alive and well

-We did not get in too much trouble for losing the ute...it got towed out

-I still feel flu ridden...makes working fun. Taking some suppository sized African Aspirin derivitive.

-At 4am a couple of nights ago, we were woken by crashing metal and dogs barking...we thought we were under attack, so I grabbed a kitchen fork and went outside...to find the horse tipping over garbage cans

-Interesting talking to Afrikanners who were around '94 when Aparteid ended to get the sense of fear they got that they were all going to be brutalised.

-A large pig came running through a place we stopped at in the ute, chased by an African with a stick. Francoise got to pet it.

-We have been during a grass survey...grassy, I really can see the hundreds of different grasses they have here...ah

-On a trip to the mall in Pretoria, we were accosted by a seller of cheap camoflaged caps at the traffic lights:

'Hey want to buy a cap?'

'No thank you.'

'Because I like your car its my favourite model I give you these samples FREE'

'Oh, cool thank you'

'...now please give me any monies you can spare, cmon Miss California and Mr Personality'

'Um sorry, no money'

'AFTER HOURS,I'M COMING!!!!' (ie to kill us)

We drove off both bemused and unsettled. Can we not have courteous sellers of junk at traffic lights please?

Otherwise, off to Swaziland 4hr car drive from here, on the weekend. Need our passports, apparently its a beautiful place.
(Please no rude junk sellers)

Manfred