Saturday woke up to an overcast cold morning. Hubby bought coffee and toast at seven after which I was up to see to the dogs. When I went out everywhere was shrouded in mist. I was worried it would spoil our day out but luckily it lifted about half ten. Ali and the boys arrived just after ten and we had a quick cappuccino before leaving. During the week Hubby had been asked by a local school to bring an old car as they were having a concert and wanted one to transport the artists between the Principal’s office and the stage. He had asked me to help out using my Sunbeam as he thought he had a car meeting on. Wrong! Hubby drove the Sunbeam with Ali and Travis while I followed in the Golf with Josh. Travis was most surprised to find himself in a car without a roof on it. We parked the Sunbeam next to the office and as the concert only started at twelve we went to find somewhere to sit under an umbrella to protect Josh from the sun. Ali went with Hubby to buy a wors roll and pancake for each of us. Once I was finished I made my way back to the car where my route was explained. Each artist needed to be driven from the office down two sides of the rugby field passing the stand and round to the stage. The rugby field was full of people as well. The main attraction of the day was Steve Hofmeyr which was why Ali had decided to come with us. Hubby had thought he would come with and take the Sunbeam home after driving him and the other artists to the stage leaving us with the Golf to come home after the concert. How wrong he was! I was informed that Steve Hofmeyr was only arriving later ready for his five o’ clock appearance. Ali was most disappointed as she couldn’t stay that late with the boys. The first three artists were female and I took each of them in turn sitting on the back ledge of the Sunbeam. People waved and shouted as we passed by them on the way to the stage. The first male artist was Dusty Dixon with his girlfriend/ partner who writes most of the songs he performs. They really were a super couple and so friendly. Time flew swiftly as I went to and fro with the artists. Others I drove were Arri – also such a friendly person and only nineteen, as well as Jaco Labuschagne who looks a bit like Steve Hofmeyr – only bigger. Robby Klay came out and gave me a hug hallo before getting in the car and also a thank you hug when he got out. They all admired the car and enjoyed the ride around to the stage. With the first few artists the crowd were well behaved and just waved. By the time I took Robbie the fans were getting autographs from the artists who had finished performing and they rushed to get his once he was out the car. The next artist to get taken to the stage in the car was Ghapi (A lot of these Afrikaans artists are ones I haven’t heard of). As we drove along the crowd was really boisterous and as we stopped at the stage they swarmed the car preventing me from even opening the door to let him out. He signed a few arms and shirts before telling me to just open the door so he could get out. The crowd fell back briefly and I let him out where he gave me a thank you hug before they swarmed back around him and the car. It was about ten minutes before I was able to get in and drive back to the office. During the afternoon Ali had left to go to a Kitchen Tea and Hubby had also gone home to rest his feet which were feeling rather painful after running around after Travis. Mean Mr Mustard were there on stage helping with the music etc for all the artists as it was their equipment being used. Just before four two of them came down to the office and I drove them back to the stage in the Sunbeam. It was really crowded by then and it was rather difficult getting back through them. Once I got back to the office I sat to wait for Steve Hofmeyer who arrived at half four. I got an autograph from him for Alison and then waited until it was time to take him down to the stage. As he was the Main Artist of the day they waited until Mean Mr Mustard had finished performing before announcing that he was coming through. It was five fifteen when he came out and got into the car. I quickly took a pic of him before getting in the car to start driving. What a performance! A policeman walked either side of the car and I had to keep pace with them. It was absolutely unbelievable! The crowd went mad and just swarmed the car to shout hallo and shake his hand .Everyone from old men to little kids wanted to touch him. Needless to say it took a while to get to the stage. Once Steve got out the car I quickly reversed and left the area. Driving back past the stand some people waved in appreciation of the car and I waved back telling them it was my turn now to be the star – much to their amusement. I left to return home as it was now almost six and we were going into Alberton to meet Diane for an evening out. I quickly showered to get all the dust off myself before we left. As we left we could still hear the music from the concert on the other side of the highway. We went to Margaret where Diane joined us shortly afterwards. The four of us went off the Harvard Cafe to have some supper. A super evening of good food, good conversation and wine was had by all. It was the perfect ending to a Very Different Day.
Sunday Hubby bought me breakfast in bed about nine and we had a really lazy day chilling, reading and watching TV recovering from our hectic Saturday.
Cheers. Have a Great Short Week
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