On reflection, I spent much of the afternoon in fitting two large wall mirrors in the lounge of the main house. Pictures reflecting that reflection will await a daylight when we are actually home. I also cleared a courtyard of loads of stone, sand and wood strewn there with gay abandon by the various builders who have tramped their messy way through there over the past several months.
Tomorrow we will be zooting off down the South Coast in the hopes of finding a passport office where one doesn’t age considerably while waiting to be interviewed. Yes, our passports have given last gasps.
Another bit of reflection came from digging this certificate out of one of the boxes we risk our lives daily to open and explore – yes, there be dragons! Anyway, this particular placing, which I achieved at the riding school gymkhana where I was learning to ride at the same time as our daughters, was a big deal because it was achieved on Charlie. I became famed for having motivated him round the cross-country course and over all the jumps in a time good enough to be placed. You see, it was universally accepted that Charlie had only two speeds: dead slow and stop.
Today we were not tempted to venture into the waves. This is what they looked like, a gale has been blowing all day, and it is chilly. Instead, we breakfasted at a surfing haven.
The mini parakits are thriving, and getting less mini (and more active) by the day. Here is a rare pause in their activities where they are having a little sister time.
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Nice reflections, Col, and ultra kute kittens! Hope you get the passports OK.
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Passport renewal – ultra stressful in good old SA. 😦
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best of luck with the passport thing. am still unable to prove to the bank in sa i exist off my fingerprints, they are demanding i go to home office sometime to sort out.
Ps i read parakeets instead of pair of kits.
woefullly far behind on blog land and catching up
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Banks in SA are something else – every time I get them to correct something, after much hair-tearing, they promptly get something else wrong. Now they have switched digits in my telephone number. Should be impossible, but they manage it.
My horrible puns are at fault for that!
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The parakits are growing fast! When I was their age a year took forever. Now it lasts a week.
I bought an el cheapo wall mirror recently. Oh, bliss. When installed, I discovered it makes folk look taller and thinner than they are. I call it, The Skinny Mirror. My brother calls it, The Confidence Mirror. Several friends have suggested I might like to leave it to them in my will…
I think I’ll be buried with it.
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A magic mirror, indeed! Even better than Alice’s looking-glass.
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Fill every hour with sixty minutes run: your life is full, and I hope rewarding.
Love those kits.
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The trick I am trying to master is getting one-twenty minutes out of an hour. That way I might get ahead of things for a change.
They are true darlings!
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“Charlie” reminds me of “Floppy” that was MY steed while I was learning to ride same time as the kids. Floppy was a very large horse that had been in a horse box accident and subsequently had a floppy ear and a tongue lolling out of the side of his mouth. All nervous beginners from 5-50 were put on Floppy because he had the same speed control as your Charlie…but it was while I was on Floppy that the instructor told me I had a “hot seat” because even floppy acted more lively with me on his back {-; Good times.
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Lovely recollection! Elder Daughter was also described as having a ‘hot seat’ – but she was a bit of a daredevil on horseback. Good times indeed, and I still love a good outride.
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By your standards, a very relaxing day!
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Today had less exercise, but more strain – entirely spent in a passport queue! Not at all relaxing.
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Hoop julle toustanery was darem suksesvol en dat die paspoorte nou weer reg is?
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Ons twee het sukses gevind, maar dogter en kleindogtertjies minder so. Die kamera het gebreek, en hulle moet nou teruggaan. Dit, nadat hulle vanaf agt uur tot vier uur gewag het.
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Oooo neeeee – dis verskriklik!
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