POTD: 08 March 2007

Construction site at Melrose Arch.

POTD: 07 March 2007

Another installment of Plants Around The House - this one is a healthy looking fern, sitting in our loft. It was in a bathroom, but we decided to move it, as it was looking a little sickly. Seems much happier now.

POTD: 06 March 2007

Call me Mr Green Fingers - have turned this potato tree plant from a sick looking, feeble flower producing puppy, into this burgeoning purple monster.

POTD: 05 March 2007

Number 1 in the Plants Around The House series: Looking a little droopy after the heat wave that we've been going through.

POTD: 04 Mar 2007

Collecting the folks from the airport. They went down to PE for the weekend, for a wedding.

POTD: 03 Mar 2007

What we think was the start of a lunar eclipse, covered by cloud.

POTD: 02 Mar 2007

My office for the next few months...

Joining the ranks of the working again...

Today marked the official end to the four month 'sabbatical' for me. Its been a great four months off - I've really enjoyed every minute of it. During mid-Jan, I started looking at putting a structure together that would allow me to do some consulting work through. Today I started on what looks to be a four month contract - in an environment that I'm quite familiar with. In fact, it is the position that I occupied about 4 years ago - they need some help to sort a few things over the next couple of months, and I was ready and available to join the ranks of the working again. It was done on the basis that I could have the flexibility to spend one day per week on other opportunities, so I'm quite chuffed about that. It'll mean that I get to help out for four days of the week, and focus on building other relationships, and hopefully securing other contracts on the fifth day of the week.
How does it feel? Pretty good actually. Besides the traffic this morning (1 hour and 40 minutes to get to the office), it feels good to trade the golf clubs for the laptop between 9am and 5pm each day. Not too sure how long that feeling will last, but its pretty good at the moment :-)

POTD: 01 Mar 2007

Another wooden puzzle - the wooden maze. Difficulty rating: 7 out of 10.

POTD: 28 Feb 2007

The puzzle cube - another in the wooden puzzle series. Little more challenging that the pyramid - I'd rate this a 6 out of ten on the difficulty ranking.

POTD: 27 Feb 2007

Sun setting over the west rand - driving home from my second round in the pre-league tournament. Lost by a narrow margin 2-3 (9-7 in the fifth).

POTD: 26 Feb 2007

Another pic from the wooden puzzle series. To state the obvious, this is a wooden pyramid puzzle - made up from various shapes and pieces. Relatively simple to solve.

POTD: 25 Feb 2007

The par 5 3rd hole at Houghton. Early morning tee-off with Graham, Anthony and Di. Shot a 93 - completely hacked the second nine, after a respectable 45 on the first. Although, considering I've raised my bat here before, I guess I should be fairly happy with the 93.

POTD: 24 Feb 2007

K and I enjoyed a fantastic braai at Tsvet and Graham's place on Sat afternoon. We were joined by Andre and Melanie - pictured here is little Nicholas Cort.

POTD: 23 Feb 2007

The exciting Pro 20 Series match between the Highveld Lions and Cape Cobras. The Lions needed one run from the last ball of the match, and it was given to them courtesy of Alan Dawson's wide. Apparently this match was the highest score in a Pro 20 cricket match - over 180 runs sscored by both teams in their 20 overs.

POTD:22 Feb 2007

Current favourite song at the moment is The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance - added to iTunes today.

POTD: 21 Feb 2007

Dropped my car off at Audi this morning for its 105,oookm service. Had a look around their showroom, and stumbled (...drooled...) over the new TT. One word - nice. No, make that three words - Very very nice.

POTD: 20 Feb 2007

The painting continues. Its close on three months now since the guys started painting our complex - and whilst they're onto the second coat, there is still a way to go.

POTD: 19 Feb 2007

Last nights dinner - Ostrich steaks, brown rice, spinach and tomato relish.

Productive Weekend

Its been a relatively productive weekend for K and I. Started off on Saturday morning - we decided that it was time to get the curtains in our bedroom cleaned. Took us next to no time to get them off the rails, but then about 2 hours to clean up all the dust that had accumulated behind our bed (tip for future - try not to keep you bed right up against a window, because give it a year or so with the windows open all the time, and you'll have a dust mound that'll take...ooohh...about 2 hours to clean up).
With that out the way, we cleaned the woolen rug in our passage, replanted a pot-plant upstairs, re-potted our orchid (which is slowly dying), and repacked all our cupboards with the towels and winter clothing that we've been storing whilst K's folks were with us. Everything seems to be back in its place now.

It was also quite an exciting week for my cousin Karen and husband Chris - they gave birth to their third son, Andrew James on Thursday. Way to go cousin...keeping the grandchild attention off K and I for the time being is much appreciated.