I have been off line for ages, as my computer again crashed, heavens alone knows what I do with the things! But to give self a bit of credit, I have never yet bought a new one, as the kids pass off all their unused ones to me when mine packs up!
had a bitty of a shock, actually one mother of a shock this Easter week-end. Jan asked me to go to cape Town with him and the kids, as he had met a nice woman, and wanted me to meet her, and spend a few days with them, then on to Trienkie, my youngest. I hmm and hah-d before I consented, as I really wanted to go, a long week-end being a bit lonely at Haarlem, but there was just a wee voice in my mind telling me that it would be better to stay.
How and so ever, between Jan and Trienkie, and the grand kids, I was persuaded to go. Erna, Jan's girl friend was one very nice lady, and I could see that the kids were already very much at home with her. I was so glad, but also very sad to see the little Emil so attached to her, as on the one hand now he had a mother figure in his life, and on the other hand I was sad for Nina who who would never see her little boy so happy and cute. But that is life I suppose. Jan was at the moment driving up and down to Cape Town just about every second week-end.
Anyway, I had a lovely time with Jan and Erna, and was at Trienkie's for only one night, when Jan phoned to tell me that we had to rush back, as the police phoned to tell him that we had break-ins at our places. he was in quite a state, as all his office equipment was in the house, but he was mostly worried about his computer, as he did all his work on that. We were quite a sad lot driving the five hundred kilometres home.
Poor Jan's house was in a shambles, and of course his computer, printer-cum-copier-cum- scanner, was all gone, and so was a lot of other stuff. he was in quite a state of panic, as he was busy with a big bio-gas project that had to be finished in a week's time.
I was lucky, as the phantom snake once again kept the thieves from entering my house. I am looked upon as a crazy old witch, as the villagers believed that a huge snake lived in my roof, and as I lived happilly with the snake, I got a lot of funny remarks. But as long as it kept the thieves out I was happy.
My car however was broken into. They first tried to open the window by pusing something hard into the rubber casing, damaging the door something terrible, then they just broke the window! As there was nothing in the car I got really mad, and swore to kill the whole bally bunch of thieving so and so's. All they took was my car's log book!
As we live so far from a town, it is really the inconvenience more than anything else, as it is so hard to leave the car at the panel beaters. Someone had to go with and bring you back, and to be without a car in Haarlem, where there are no busses or any kind of transport, is really impossible.