I have never seen a thinner person that is healthy and full of energy, like my new neighbour! She was like a small insect, buzzing around the garden, putting in seedlings all day long. She had brought trays and trays of veggie seedlings from Natal, but I have my doubts about the outcome, as we have freezing winters, while Natal have a sub tropical climate! And with the winter already staring to pinch with its icy cold fingers, I know that the early frost will also start soon.
I myself in the meantime was also busy in the garden, preparing to plant some winter crops. Ronalee had given me a few broadbean seeds, and I was kind of building up a raised bed so that the bally moles can't get to them. I am like a woman demented when it came to the moles, and although it looks like I am getting the upperhand, the battle is far from over. I can deal with the pigs, peacocks, cattle, slugs and other above ground critters, but this spooky creeper moles have me in a state of great hate and I have no greater wish at the moment, but to take revenge for all my plants that have been destryed by them.
After a week of my new neighbour sleeping on the floor of her kitchen, and getting fresh stuff from my freezer every morning, she told me that her furniture will be arriving sometime during the morning. She took out some stuff, which included a large yogurt, a liter of long life milk, a liter of juice, and some cheese and other stuff. I left to do some shopping just as the furniture truck arrived, and the last I saw of her was a smiling and happy face, for now she had her things at last.
I visited with Louise as well, and on coming back I found the furniture truck gone, but a furious looking woman standing at the gate!
I was told that after the truck had left, she found her cold bag open, and the yogurt, as well as the liter of juice gone, and had ordered the truck back so she could deal with the driver and his team. I thought it bizarre that she could order the huge truck back, and that for only a yogurt and a juice, but she informed me coldly that it is her stuff, and she will not allow them to get away with the theft. When at first the driver refused to come back, she told him that in that case she would phone their employer, and let him then deal with it. They must have been scared to be reported, so they turned back, although they were already about sixty kilometers away!
Then followed the most bizarre and comical episode that I have seen in a long time. The huge truck pulled onto the curve, and out climbed this five massive, non smiling and angry Zulus, but Joy gave no sign of being scared, just marched them all onto her veranda! The next few minutes were very enjoyable, only for me I guess, as I took up a stance at my bedroom door, from where I had an excellent view of the proceedings. Joy was like a little cockerel, face red with anger, and the five huge men just standing there, looking at her with stricken faces! She then stopped jumping around from pure rage, and tackled them one by one, and every one of them shaking their heads in denial, so in the end she had to let them go, not very happily, but the men stood there like bloody rocks of Gibraltar, not budging an inch, and not splitting on who-ever had taken the stuff! But they were guilty, otherwise they would not have turned back! The womwn in the foto is my neighbour, but couldn't get her face.