So the great
news that we South Africans received this week
is that next Wednesday the price of petrol is going up 41 c a litre..................SHIT
it comes down by 9 c and 12 cents over a 2 month period and the BAM not even a
dinner and were getting screwed. Means petrol at the coast will be nearly R12 a
Frikken litre, sucks big time.
Tania bought
our tickets for the UK, yeah going to pay the island a visit (it needs some
class for a while) as some of you may know the UK or the “island” as i like to call it ain’t my
favourite place in the world and spose I am going to have to eat humble pie for a while. Why am i going ? well the
missus wants to c her sister who moved there 5 years ago for a “year or two”
and ain’t coming back, so we are paying them a visit. We were going to ravel on
Pommie passports, but thankfully they were so full of shit we are travelling on
South African passports. I place i really wanted to visit if the Imperial war
museum, and I went onto their website to check opening times ate etc and its
closed for renovations till July 13, (we fly back home on the 5th).
Oh well Ace cafe and a couple of Harley shops are on the list. Thankfully we
are not going in winter, I will know because in summer they don’t get snow
apparently. Thank goodness for that because as this headline shows the island
now has sex perverts who molest snowmen...................... 
Did something
on Wednesday that have not done in such a long time, in fact i can’t even
remember when I performed this act....................When was the last time
you placed papers inside and envelope and placked a stamp on it ?. It was like
“I have done this before, but just can’t remember when”. A piece of advice if
you’re going to rush out and buy envelopes and stamps just to see what it feels
like, don’t lick the stamp or the back of the envelope, they are self adhesive.
Took me about 2 hours to get the taste out of my mouth.
A headline in a
local paper caught my eye this week , 123 kids in 1 class, yeah you read
correctly 123 kids. We have 90 000 000 to give war torn Mali but we
don’t have the funds........ “wait maybe we do” we just don’t have the right
people to ensure that its spent properly and not stolen or wasted.
About a week
ago on Algoa radio face book page they asked if anyone was interested in doing
a morning as a Guest presenter, well i obviously said “hell
Yeah” , after all I do have the face for radio. So on Friday i got a call from
them asking me if i was still interested, of course I said yes, but “damn” the
day they need me 13/2/2013 i am in East London on the 2nd week of
SAMTRAC. I have been on radio before, being interviewed so it would have been
cool to be a presenter. “Oh well maybe next time”
The house
behind NOSA has a tennis court and a pool, its hired out so as you can imagine
the tenants don’t look after the property as if it was their own. So the pool
looks like where Shrek could live and it
looks as if they are trying to turn the clay court into a grass court.
Gabby friend
Allen had a bike accident on Wednesday he was hit by a car that was looking it
jump into the gap in the morning traffic. The driver of the car told the police
that he had only ‘bumped” the scooter......................”See photo and
decide for yourself”. Allen is very bruised and sore, but will live to ride
another day. While not lekker for him , it was a wake-up call for gabby and her
other mates who ride to school and back in heavy traffic.
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| Allen was lucky to get out of this one with only heavy bruising |
If you ever
drive past a block of flats and see a car/bakkie hooked up to a trailer and its
packed with furniture and household goods, spare a thought for the poor sods
that are either moving in or out, especially if they are way up on one of the top
floors. My mate Rob called to see if i could help him move from his flat, of
course i said yes, but could only do it after work on Thursday. I had assumed
that Rob was going to be moving from one flat to another in the same block. Assume (can make an ASS out of U and ME.
Thankfully Gabby and Tania had offered their assistance with Gabby going to
help about an hour earlier than Tania and I got there. Rob then tells me that
he is moving to a cottage in Sardinia Bay about 16kms from where he has his
flat on the beachfront. Oh let me mention now that Rob resides (did reside) on
the 17th floor of ‘Beaches” flats.....................flat 1707 to
be exact. Well to cut a LONG story short while Tania and Gabby packed Rob, I
and his neighbour (thank god he helped) moved the furniture etc to the Goods
lift, then I would pack the lift and travel the 17 stories (very very slowly i
may add, hell they opened a coffee bar
on that lift they would have made money) and then unpack it at the bottom.
Originally Rob had the car and trailer parked 500ms away and I said boet you
need to move the trailer etc to the car park area. Oh did i mention that it was
Frikken hot and about 99.9 % humidity. By 9.30pm we had him all packed and then
drove with him to new cottage.................Moving out of flats is not easy
believe me, I slept like a log on Thursday night.
Bafana Bafana
played Mali in the Q finals in Durban yesterday at 8pm and lost 3/1 in the
penalty shootout after extra time when both teams had a goal apiece, we where
shocking at the shootout, absolutely pathetic, earlier in the day Ghana had
beaten a hard working Cape Verde Islands 2/0 at the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium,
here in PE. I have not had the chance to get to a game and being in EL it looks
like I won’t either.
The Protea’s
are playing Pakistan at the Wanderers in a 5 day test, they started the game on
Friday, The Protea’s won the toss and decided to bat, they were bowled out for
a below par 253. Headline were not complimentary to the team this morning
(Saturday 2/2/2013) Pakistan started the day on 6/0 and were bowled out for 49
runs, ‘yes 49 runs” Dale Steyn getting 6
wickets for 8 runs). Proteas are piling on the runs with AMLA and du Plessis
doing some damage .
A while back a radio station asked for comments regards
cyclists, I did not send in any info but i would like to add my 5 cents worth
to the debate about these guys on the road.. I find it amazing that the
majority of cyclists expect other road users to take them into consideration
and obey the rules of the road, when they themselves do not take road users
into account and regularly flout the
rules of the road. A prime example of this is when you get to a traffic light
that is green for you but a cyclist rides through the red on his/her side and
stop streets merely mean a quick glance to see if i can put on a burst of speed
and make it across the road without actually having to stop. Should a cyclist
however be hit while breaking these rules, it will of course be the other
persons fault.
Started a new
Blog this week as well, it’s called “Born warriors” www.theywerebornwarriors.blogspot.com.
Its a Blog that hopefully will have not only myself contributing but others as
well. As the title suggests it’s a military Blog and i want to tell the stories of
forgotten hero’s of especially the African wars that have plagued this
continent way back, but concentrating mainly between the years 1950 – present
day.....................take a look.
Well on way to
East London for the week
Have a great
one
Ciao
SPAD
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