We woke up ages before our alarm this morning, the bird life is really loud and it was REALLY bright in our room. We need curtains! And our first night in our new house wasn’t exactly peaceful....we bought cheep cheep pillows which meant it was like sleeping on a cereal box. We were plagued by bugs and mossies.... and at 11pm our doorbell rang. Benedikt went to look and saw 3 police guys outside. So we both went to the front door.... and boy I have never seen such funny outfits. All 3 were wearing these giant black shiny vesper style helmets.... it made them look like worker ants. Their rifles and batons making up the extra limbs. It was quite bizarre.
And you guessed it....they were at the wrong house.
You can imagine how long it took to get back to sleep after that!
So first thing this morning I went for a run... a 5km loop, out one entrance of the estate and in the other.
Then I unpacked all our air freight bags. We packed lots of clothes.... but no useful things like towels or curtains or chairs or even some kitchen stuff would have been nice. And it would have been really good to have our coffee machine right now! Oh well... we’ll have a better idea next time we move countries. Bleh.
Then I walked to our local shopping centre which is a couple of kilometres away. I bought new pillows and lots of bug killers, I ordered some curtains, and had some special South African adapter plugs made up for me. SA plugs are a pain!
Then the dude came to fix up our telephone and internet connections... and I got my new fancy shmancy PC plugged in and up and running. Yay. I even did some web site work this afternoon so my office has officially begun its job.
I went back to the shops 3 more times this afternoon, on my bike though, and ordered a wooden frame for the guest bed. So we can hang the mossie net over it. It will be ready next thursday. Hope it turns out well. (and that it fits!)
My new best flend popped in for well.... nothing. Yesaday she made us delicious coffee and lusks....but I didn’t dare make her our supermaket special koffie. Naoko calls me Sela.
She is from Japan. :-)
She and I are getting on leally well... we are in the same boat. Unemployed and staying at home for the first time in our lives. She also likes to galen and she also can’t cook – yay!! She also drinks wine and she likes to lite. I told her to start a blog too!
Benedikt’s handover at work is a bit PAINFUL. Poor boy.
He is replacing a guy who is due to retire any day now. This dude actually double checks excel. And he does his sums using a pencil and paper! CRAZY. He is very old fashioned and slow and he doesn’t delegate any work to his staff.... Poor Benny boo boo has to sit IN HIS OFFICE with him all day.
Benedikt wants a dog. Nurse Mandy says we are NOT allowed to get one. I agree with her. Quarantine will be awful for it when we leave here. But the thought of a jack russel to keep me company in the day time is a really nice one. Lets see who wins!
Anyway, I’ve got my music blaring in this empty house.... I’m playing the CD I made for some of you (you know who you are, you special bitches) before I left... its quite a good un huh?! All I need now is a G & T and you guys next to me to enjoy this beautiful balmy evening
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Yeah... I see that Tabasco!!!!! :-) Good stuff.
I'm really glad you guys are settling in well.
How could you possibly not have thought you'd want your coffee machine as soon as you were in the place?!! My coffee machine never has a day's rest. I'm even contemplating taking one of them to work...
You can't be serious... the guy actually double checks Excel? Isn't the point of Excel that you don't need to do the calculations by hand?
Ha Ha, it really makes me laugh to picture it.
Yup, Kinda chilly here now, I've never seen the condensation from my breath inside before - that was a new one for me today.
I've bought myself a gas heater for when it really gets cold.
However for tonight I'm just relaxing with a nice veg&pasta dish I did for supper, a salad and a glass of some superb wine.
SA plugs are just plain dangerous in my opinion... I'd swap them out asap if I were you. I use US or at least UK plugs on anything I really value, or that's going to be doing heavy duty work.
Wishing you a great weekend ahead...
Graham
Hey prince and princesse,
Its the pina boy;-) Good to read that you are doing well overthere!
Just stay training because when you come over to here we will not push you again uphill.
Dieter
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