The road works at Joe Slovo have a lot to answer for! The road is actually completely closed which means that 4 lanes of traffic have to divert into 2 - not to forget the 5th lane which is actually a left turn only lane which all these horrible people zoom down (past those law abiding citizens like myself) and then push in to the right turn at the bottom. Well, yeasterday evening on the way home such an incident happened and I was the one being pushed in front of - so I let the black car ahead of me turn but was determined that the bakkie behind him would not get in front of me too! So I kept very close to the horrible black car - but unfortunately TOO close and banged his right back tyre fender - I didn't even realise I'd hit him until the driver jumped out and started waving his arms around and yelling and cursing me in Afrikaans! I said I was sorry but on and on he ranted - very unpleasant. Anyway eventually we pulled out of the traffic so that we did not impede it anymore than it already was and he calmed down and we swopped information. There is a small scratch just below my headlight - not worth bothering about but we'll have to wait and see what he does about it!
So, on I went home - back door wide open but nobody around. Went to check on the alpacas and found Coco, Patricia and Dustin shut into the barn area with no water or food and the poor little baby on the other side of the gate all by himself in the field! FUME!!!
Sorted thatout and went into the house - power failure..... but everybody elses lights around us were on? Michael and his friend John arrived home and I sent them to check the fuse box. All the switches were down but pushing them up had no effect - then Michael found the little love letter than Eskom had sent us - disconnected due to non-payment! AAAARGH! Scrabbled through Johans non-filing system on his desk and luckily found an account - the whole system works on the account number and without that you are sunk. First of all I phoned to check what we owed - R0???? So then I got through to a person (lots of number pushing and menus for that to happen) who said that it had been a mistake...well, we are still waiting for it to come on again.....
So much for my thoughts of a glass or wine with my feet up watching James Herriott!
We have a new addition - one peachick has hatched (guess the others all rolled off the roof!) and here are some pictures of little Byron!
