After seeing another older lady, with a head of hair dyed a nice auburn, but with the roots showing starkly white where the hair had grown out, I have decided that I would stop as in immediately with trying to look a bitty younger. Actually, when the roots show up so snowy white, a person looks much older! So I went to a gathering showing off my grey head, and although I am not altogether grey,I got so many compliments that I was quite pleased!
 I am preparing to go To Cape Town, as the big day had almost arrived. This is of course the marriage of Jan and Erna. I am so glad for him, as she is one very nice lady, and the kids love her already!
The timing is fine, as all my veggies have been harvested, and either bottled, dried, or frozen.
The preveous night I had pasta with musscles, and I made the sauce exclusively with my own stuff. Tomatoes, garlic, onions, and herbs were freshly picked, and made into this sauce, and to top it off, I sprinkled some of my sun dried tomatoes over the whole lot, and then some lovely parmesan! Ate myself almost to the point of feeling like a stuffed froggy!
I have one heck of a time trying to keep the hooligans out of Jan's house, and I feel that the time had now come for the new owner to move in. She is a lecturer at the University of Natal, and has to work out her notice time before she could come.
But this neigbourly thing of looking out for the people around one, is getting me down, as not only do I find a new window being broken almost every morning, but now a pipe had gone and burst, and this pipe was spewing out a stream of water, leaving the kitchen floor all soggy. I phoned the agent immediately, as he was there with a plumber to have a look at the plumbing and stuff, and this happened just after they left. What I did find was that somebody had turned off the regulator for the solar panel heating the water. Of course now nobody knows anything about this switch, and I just shake my head in wonder. I knew it was on, as I checked everything in the morning, and as I have no solar panel, I took my shower in this house before the place was in her name. felt a bitty upset about loosing my lovely free shower, as now of course I have to put my electric geyser on again. Expensive!
I am a bit worried about leaving my house, as the nightly visitors who keep on breaking the windows next doors, could decide that my house is an easy target now that there was no soul around. Luckily, and I hoped that it was still the case, the villagers believe that a big snake was living in my roof. When one of them talk about my snake, and ask me how I manage to live with it, I just smile, and told them that we are friends, as I feed the monster. And in all my years of being away to Scotland for my job, nobody had touched my house.
Actually, there are lots of snakes around, and poisonous ones at that. Mainly tree snakes, but as their fangs are situated in their throats, they can't get poison into you, except if they get your finger or toes or some such deep enough into their mouths. Although this snakes have very small heads, their mouths can open alarmingly wide, so I run away very, very fast on encountering one.