Another Short week

Well! Can you believe it? Woke up Tuesday morning to a miserable rainy day. The Championship Races was cancelled Again due to rain. Hubby went into the workshop to do some work while I started my statements. Diane and I were going to go to Lusito Land to take pics instead but the rain put paid to that as well. These things are sent to try us. I spent the afternoon reading my book again – I am now on my 5th Eric Lustbader book and they are really interesting. The amount of research he must have put into finding out about the Orient is phenomenal. The evening was the usual of TV etc. Wednesday was spent finishing my statements and emailing them out as well as cleaning from the long weekend. Diane and I went into Meyerton in the afternoon to do some shopping and get the dogs tablets again. The evening was spent on the computer as well as watching ‘The Mentalist’. Thursday morning dawned chilly and overcast still but by nine we had blue sky and sunshine. I went through to the north of Joburg to meet Ali and Travis and have lunch. Ali took me to a Monkey Sanctuary which is located inside Little Falls Plant Nursery. They have a lot of cages and plenty of occupants which are all rescued monkeys. One cage had 3 babies of about a month old who have been bottle-reared. They were really cute. We had lunch inside a children’s play area where there is everything imaginable for the kids to play in from a hairdresser to a post office. All in miniature of course. Travis just didn’t stop running around and thoroughly enjoyed himself. He only stopped to eat chips off our plates and have a bite or two of his pizza. Ali and I had a Hawaiian Tramezzini with chips and salad and a Frulatta. The food was So Much that I could hardly finish it but was really delicious. We left after three and by then it was too late to go to the workshop to fax the remaining statements so I just went home where I picked up Diane to quickly go into Meyerton to fetch tablets the chemist had ordered for Hubby. We chilled with a glass of wine when we were back home and once supper was over watched TV – ‘Fringe’. Friday morning was another overcast chilly day. I spent the morning cleaning while Diane worked on the computer. We left just after twelve for the workshop to fax statements. Stupidly I left my phonebook with all the numbers at home so it took rather a long time as I had to either look up numbers or phone for numbers. Once we finished we left going via the takeaways at Maxi’s (Steers was closed for renovations). Diane and I sat having an ice-cream cone while we waited for the order. She had a Tramezzini and chips while I got steak and chips for Hubby and myself. Once home we ate and then I quickly finished the last bit of cleaning. All was finished by six and we then got ourselves ready for the Piano Recital by Neil Bennett. Last month we arrived just after six thirty and the parking area was packed already so this time we left home at six fifteen. Guess what! We were the first to arrive so we sat waiting in the car for a while before venturing in. The place wasn’t as packed as last month’s Welsh Male Choir evening which was unfortunate as those people missed out on another fantastic time. We were entertained with music from Gershwin to Chopin and Bach as well as my all-time favourites Chariots of Fire and Love Story. In between Neil entertained us with snippets of news and jokes. Everybody enjoyed themselves immensely and can’t wait for next month’s entertainment evening. We chilled with coffee/ tea afterwards and chatted to all and sundry. Small World! A nephew of Ian Garrs (The organiser of the entertainment) is over here for a short holiday from Edinburgh. Half an hour or so from Kilcaldy where Mom lives. He has lived there for the past two years and is working in a hotel in the town. We were home around ten. Hubby has left to go on patrol, Diane is watching a comedy on TV and I’m getting the blog up-to-date. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day so I need to do this now before heading off to bed. The Championship Races are definitely on for tomorrow and after that Diane and I are off to Lusito Land to see Danny K perform. Diane will be taking pics at both places so we will have some more pics for the Blog. I will upload this and then it will be time for a Milo before getting in to bed with my book.
Have a Fantastic Weekend.