POTD: 02 Feb 2007

Off to Dullstroom with K and her folks for the weekend. Staying at a place called Critchley Hackle - haven't been there before, but have heard good things about it. Should have some pics by Monday.

POTD: 01 Feb 2007

OK, we're into the month of February now, which means we're closer to the start of the Super14. In fact, the tournament kicks off tomorrow morning. Anyone who follows rugga will know that the Super14 contest is one of the toughest and most exciting around. Me mate Dave has a website (its called Sports Pool) that allows you to submit predictions each week. You're allocated points depending on how you progress, so that by the end of the tournament, the person with the most points is declared winner. Yours truly won two seasons ago. These are my scores for round 1 - lets see how we do this year.

POTD: 31 Jan 2007

View of the city, with Nelson Mandela Bridge barely visible over the train tacks. Taken from the 14th floor of the Sable Centre building in De Korte St, Braamfontein. K's dad Roy and I went to Jhb today to sort out one or two admin things whilst he is here.

POTD: 30 Jan 2007

Traffic on the way back from dropping K at work. We've decided that its easier for me to drop K at work while her folks are here, so that they can make use of her car during the day if they want. I killed an hour in the pool at the gym up the road from her work, whilst waiting for traffic to die down. Wasn't too bad on the route that I came back on to be honest.

POTD: 29 Jan 2007

A souvenir from the curio shop at the Liphofung Cultural Village in Lesotho.

Weekend update

Its been a good weekend. We got back from Clarens on Friday afternoon, and then went through to Sandton for some dinner with K's folks. There has been quite a bit of development since they left SA, so its been quite nice to show them all the new shopping centres, housing complexes etc. We had a good dinner on the Nelson Mandela Square.
Saturday was spent trying to find an aircon for our place. The heat has been unbearable over the past few days, to the point where K and I are battling to sleep properly at night. We found some nice looking LG units - something that I'll have to follow up on this week. We then had a quiet afternoon at home, watching South Africa turn the tables in the third test match against Pakistan (which they won today). Spent the evening at the movies - saw The Queen, which turned out to be better than I expected.
Today, we spent the morning at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Sunninghill for Nicholas Kort's christening (Nicholas is Tsvet and Graham's little guy). The service was all in Serbian, so we didn't quite get what was being said, but I guess the dunking of little Nicholas in a bath of water kind of gave it away. Then rushed back home to collect K's folks and made our way through to my folks for lunch - which consisted of roast lamb, roast potatoes and veg, some fruit salad and ice cream, and some red wine. Very good indeed.
Right now, its watching Carte Blanche, whilst listening to the rain falling on the tin roof outside.

POTD: 28 Jan 2007

Finally some rain. Its been stinking hot here over the past few days, and every evening we've been convinced that the rain would fall, but nothing. Until this evening.

POTD: 27 Jan 2007

A gift...from Stuart and Lauren. Thanks guys. Its sitting on our balcony, and looks quite comfortable there.