Woke up to a beautiful rainy day (maybe if I pretend to like it, it will go away). We drove up to the Sinclairs for Sunday lunch. Once again they spoiled us rotten and 'made' us feast on this enormous banquet! We caught up on lots of gossip and when we paused for breath, we ate some more. After lunch we decided to ignore the rain and Rodney took us out for a walk across the river and to the lock. No boats had ventured forth this time to stumble their way downstream and even the ducks were drying out their feathers elsewhere. It is so beautiful and green and just too pretty to miss on a trip to Wadenhoe, even when it rains. Graham inspected the garden and came back to discuss the plants with Patricia (which sounds like a lesson in Latin sometimes & now I know how the Greeks must feel when it is all ...er.. latin to them) and then we tried to figure out the dates that Rick and June would be there.
If Mom and Dad had been a few weeks earlier, they could have caught up with the Den Blaawens (for those of you who don't know, Father den Blaawen was given the difficult task of getting Rick to the Anglican church in Brakpan to get his (the Laudin) teenagers confirmed a long time ago. Dad used to pick the 07h00 service as it was the shortest and would then sleep/snore his way through the 30 minutes. However Father den Blaawen persisted as only the Dutch can and didn't seem to mind. I reckon he won a lot of bets around town as a result of getting the crazed local prokureur into the church.
Monday was Bonnie's last day here so she and Graham went off shopping and pottering around locally then they joined me in London after work for dinner and a show. We landed up going to see Mama Mia, and, dare I say it...I loved it!!! I thought it would be so uncool to say I loved an Abba show, but it was a happy, energy filled, nostalgic few hours. Bonnie and Graham also seemed to enjoy it. We had a good laugh, both at the show and the audience, but we all cringed a bit when the 'mature matrons' in the rows around us started standing up, clapping in time to the music and doing 'dancing queen waves'....eeeekkkk.
We found out later that one of the main characters was none other than Suanne Braun! I didn't recognise her on stage but when I checked the cast list on the web, I recognised her face and name. It was good to know that there was a South African in a job other than barman, dentist, doctor, teacher, IT person, Security Guard and train conductor in this country! We're branching out my chinas....
Well it is time for me to go to bed....lovely to fall asleep with the gentle pitter patter of raindrops muffling the sound of the university fireworks (how come they don't get washed out) and jumbos taking off above the house (and how come they can fly in this weather? Amazing considering our trains battle when it is raining, snowing, too hot and when there are leaves on the line). As you can see I am now a fully fledged pom so can whinge all I bl**dy well like.
Wait till you hear me start on those students who do wheelies in the car park above the house...and as for the cars that park on both sides of the street so that I have to hold my breath when I drive past them ...and the weather and the transport and the BBC and the whole world!!!
Oh I do love to whinge when the wain falls...I do love to live by the puddle-side....nighty-nite
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