The thieves were caught within three days, as they had stashed their loot up in the mountain, not knowing that some of the villagers had seen them do it. There were four of them, all quite young, and I felt sad, as the youngsters here grow up with parents that are drunk the whole week-end, and with nothing to do, they soon get into trouble when they fall into the hands of the drug lords. Tic is a very popular drug used by the youth, and the drug lords get the kids used to the drugs, then use them to do the break-ins, and they then get payed with drugs!
Jan came back from Johannesburg, and broke the news that he was thinking of moving to Capetown, not immediately, but by the end of the year. I was upset, as the baby, well toddler, is so close to me, and to take the kids away would break my heart.
But first I was going to visit Irma and Karel in Belgium for two months.
Trienkie, my youngest have the most amazing husband, who said he would look after the kids, and she could go with me, and stay for ten days!
The flight to Belgium was fraught with upheavel and bad bally luck. Firstly our flight from Capetown was delayed, and we had to be put on another flight, as we had the flight from Johannesburg to Abu Dabhi to catch, and our plane had some or other pain!
Then we were delayed at the Abu Dabhi airport for eight hours, and we were very tired and bleary eyed when at last we landed at Brussels.
But it was a wonderful time, and while Trienkie was there, we did a lot of trips to show her around, and the highlite was of course to drink our pintje! That is a pint of Belgium beer of course. I just love the old towns and villages, and Karel drove us to Dinant, where we had a look at a small village called le Roux, which is where my family came from, mother being a le Roux. I sometimes get sad, thinking that my forefathers were driven from France because they were protestants, they then went to Belgium, and from there they were sent to Africa, and left!
Bush had to look after the onions, well, he just had to water them, and it would be ready to harvest when I came back!
Knowing that Jan would be moving to Capetown also when I got back, I was feeling really upset, but soon got over it for the time being, as Irma insisted that we go berry picking, but to get to the river, we had to cycle! Oh good heavens, I did not look forward to Trienkie's leaving, as then we would take to the roads on the bicycles!