August 2007 Archives

Right now the flat smells like baking muffins, it's a nice change from the smell of ant repellant and smoke from the neighbour.

I'm about to sit down to Heroes with a freshly baked goodie and a coffee - Ian should go away more often!
He goes on these conferences like once a month and it's usually quite cool - I get to lounge around and eat whatever (tonight - case in point - too dry scrambled eggs) and don't have to worry about putting my shoes away until the morning. He's by far the neater one of us; I pretend I'm also neat too but it's really a lie.

I'm cross stitching a little bear thingy, cute huh? I'll give him eyes soon.

Next plan - embroider a cotton bag. I'm thinking leaves.

We got the environmental search list back today - things are moving along with the new flat. We're hoping to complete and move in on the 19th October.

Lately I've been emailing my mom, asking her questions about her past. I think that being away from her for these long stretches at a time has really made aware of how little I really know about her history. I remember her telling me things as a kid, picking up snippets of conversations, but generally these get mixed around in the washing machine of your mind and some of what she's been telling me has been really interesting and novel:

- I was sent to Queenstown Girls High in S.A. at the age of 13 yrs. Gran and Grandpa drove me down to start school there; but we all had to go back by train every holiday (4 days & 4 nights travel, during which we had to swop trains in Bulawayo from SA Railways to Rhodesia Railways).

4 days and 4 nights on a train from SA to what is now Zambia! Really puts the 12 hour flight from London to Cape Town into perspective.

- I had applied to do both Med Tech and Radiography at the end of matric, but got the reply about the lab first so started there on 6th Jan 1969, having just turned 18 the previous day.

If the radiography people had answered her first, she may have gone on to choose that as a profession! This is important because:

- Dad started at the same lab about a week after I did, along with about 13 other students, most of whom we are still in touch with from time to time.

She might never have met my dad!

- My first car was an ancient blue & white Fiat with doors that opened outward from the front, a bit of a heap, really, but I loved it to bits...cost me R375 to buy!!

Ridonkulous! And lastly...

- No, we hadn't been trying for Cha for long, in fact it was quite surprising it happened so quickly. We did however battle for you for a few years.

See Charlene? YOU WERE A MISTAAAAAKE!

You go onto Facebook, log in, browse, get bored, decide to go to another website, go to the Bookmarks tab, and then select Facebook without thinking.

I need to re-think this online life thing.

Brilliant comics based on Wikipedia entries - more here.