
Granddaughter J is the first to pose in the Shrek The Musical cut-out just completed in the workshop of Greg King. I judge it is going to become a much-photographed item in the foyer of the theatre!
I haven’t given up blogging …
Well, not de-lib-er-rate-ly,
No, I have been taking a flogging,
For blogging’s given up me!
My Windows gave me its swan-song,
And Office also said, ‘So long!’
For what I had got badly wrong
Was losing the flippin’ key!
To stop the Windows from quitting
I traced that wretched one,
It hiccupped, and said, ‘Ah, that’s fitting;
More trouble, you’ll have none.’
But Office key would not emerge,
Of madness I was on the verge,
But IT expert gave a surge
Of genius, and ‘tis done!
Otherwise, our ho-hum existence includes unscheduled power-outs, serious bush fires in the suburb, and an elderly lady friend who yesterday punched a robber in the face and drove off dragging him when he wrenched open her car door and demanded her cellphone. Then there is the matter of some gales and high seas we experienced last week, when a 28-year-old son of a friend who was waiting to cross Durban’s Esplanade had a pane of glass blow out of a penthouse and sever his spine just below the neck. It was thought that he would be a quadriplegic, but at least he does still have the use of his arms, by some miracle. Then another friend lost control of his motorbike on a trip through Mpumalanga and broke lots of ribs and things. The BMW is a write-off. This morning another elderly friend, on his way to do some shopping in a taxi, was involved in an accident where the taxi was clobbered fore and aft, and then had a lorry go into the side of it on the other side of which was his side. Which is now bruised, and the reaction was not good for his blood pressure.
There is more, but that will do for now. Loadshedding has just ended, and I have editing to catch up on.
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Ah, cute, I love cut outs 😉
Computers can’t live with them can’t live without them.
I am sorry about those accidents.
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By the time the kids actually saw the show on Saturday, the cut-outs were in the foyer and well-patronised!
These things are supposed to come in threes – I hope the four doesn’t mean another pair are due!
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My goodness! What a list of calamities! I think I’d be concerned about leaving the house! Seriously, these are some really frightening incidents and I’m particularly sorry to hear about the young man with the severed spine. I hope you get your own computer/Internet outages “righted” before long. Very sweet photo–your granddaughter is adorable!
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A frightening list, indeed!
My daughter visited the young man this evening, and he still has an amazingly positive attitude about it all.
A sad side-issue is that his parents have been working for years towards setting out for the wide blue yonder in a yacht they have been living on for years in preparation. Now they are going to have to sell it and forego their dream.
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There is a reason for everything that happens…but this is really depressing 😦
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I would really like to speak to the guy up top and demand a REALLY good reason!
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‘Tis a crazy place, SA, but the people have spirit. What an awful accident your friend’s son had. 😦
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Crazy, indeed.
Such a freak thing to have happened, wasn’t it? And to such a thoroughly nice person, too.
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Is that really shrek… I though it was a new kind of space helmet… Shrek from outa space, maybe? Got the green thing going, after all… err, that was men from mars, right? 😀
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There is something a bit two-dimensional about it? But I’m a-green with you.
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It’s a nice a green as well. 😀
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I’d say that internet problems are the price you pay for living in such a magical place on this planet. It’s all about compromise, right? Great picture, by the way!
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What with water, electricity, and officials who are corrupt or stupid or both, the price rises by the day!
Thanks!
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Such is it always, everywhere…except for water, which is scarce in lots of places (thus more expensive every day)! 😉
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trouble never comes in ones, they say bvut heck you certainly had more than your share. Stay strong my friend, like the lady who clobbered the robber!
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Just attended a lecture by a local radio traffic personality on taking anti-hijacking measures. A very definite injunction not to resist if accosted, but to co-operate fully. That goes against the grain. I would far rather exterminate them!
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They give the same message here too. Mind yo the little old ladies often frighten them off.
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Good for the little old ladies. Trouble is, I don’t think the hijackers there are quite as ready, willing and able to kill their victims as our local species are.
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Our trouble makers are fond of wearing balaclavas. Somehow that does not convince me that they have the courage of their convictions.
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I suppose those are to encourage that they don’t get convictions! 🙂
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Too right!
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Blimey, Col! When it rains, it rains!
Hope things ease for you now… sounds like you need a breather!
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Oops – you have touched a sore point. That’s another thing. We are desperate for rain. Some nearby bits of coast already have major water problems.
Thanks! A breather would be nice!
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Ulp! Sorry about that! Here’s hoping it does rain – but in a good way!
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In fact this is one time we don’t mind if it pours!
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Oh my goodness!! What a horrid lot of bad news. So sorry for that poor young man. I wish him well. Little J is so cute and has a gorgeous smile. 🙂
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Horrid, indeed.
He has taken it incredibly philosophically.
Isn’t she just!
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I don’t think you need anymore…what dreadful things to happen….I might be your friend but I am so grateful that I am not in your vicinity and only have these damned fleas to worry about
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I am, indeed, starting to wonder whether friends and acquaintances have become an endangered species!
As for fleas – we found the only solution was one of those droplets-on-animal’s neck solutions which makes the fleas infertile. (You only need to treat one of any number of household pets – fleas are very sociable and it soon gets all of them.)
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Dont I know it! We have no carpets on floor, dogsbedding has been washed over and over, I have tried ever silly idea on the internet, I comb the dogs and cats over and over again, strong vac sucks up every bit of dirt. Yet the little blighters will not vacate the premises. I even tried some idea of water in a bowl with a candle.they are supposed to try to reach the warmth, jump up and land in water and drown….did it work? No of course not
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You’re having a really awful time. The IT problems are well known to me, but we can live through those, at a pinch. The rest is horrendous. Where is your Good Fairy in all this?
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Maybe the good fairies of these unfortunate friends all came to lend a had with our (unmentionable) IT hassles!
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Not the kind of excitement I would like.
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We could certainly have done happily without it – although the clobbered robber did give me some joy!
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Enough for a TV series. Life has gotten so complicated here, too.
Hang in there ( don’t even get me started on MS Windows.arrrrrgh)
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I think a TV series would have spread them out a bit more!
As for Windows – a shattering (nearly shuttered) experience!
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. . . unsure about hitting “like” . . .
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I would have taken it as an expression of admiration for my scintillating scribbling style!
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Then, please do so.
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Oh boy sorry to hear about these incidents. Great photo 😊
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All a spot of a bother, indeed!
I can say I had the world premiere of that scene! 🙂
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