Phew! I Made It...

Last week I took a "dip" as I felt the weight of my life.

I had some balancing to do.

This is the progress on the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital

which I see each week when I drive out from the Temple basement.

Beautiful Jacarandas blooming all around.

This is the roadworks that stopped me dead a few weeks ago.

Daylight helps!

This is the project in Sophiatown (previously Triomf) that I wasn't sure about.

It is a pedestrian and cycle lane (on the left of the road ahead.)

And here it is on the right of the road.

And the patio projects goes quietly ahead day by day.

And the swimming continues.

I'm grateful the temperatures are lower this week.

The Friday before last we had our Dessert Club at our home.

It was lovely!

We had baked potatoes with various salads and fillings.

I had our couples bring desserts.

Here are some of the ladies.

And here are some of the men sitting at the table.

The one on the right looks like Douglas...

but it is Rob Moffit.

The roof support is now completed and rust-proofed.

The underground sewerage down the driveway and across the back

 is done and covered with concrete.

Glenn perfecting a joint.

More Jacarandas.

Some maintenance at Phillips House.

I took a trip to the kinesiologist.

This is Rosebank.

And Craighall Park.

Since I was so close I took a drive past our home in Bordeaux.

Front...

Building out over the front porch area.

And up the side road.

Increased security!

And new garages on the side.

More glorious flowering Jacarandah and flowering shrub.

I forget the name.

You like my smiley face?

It helps me remember to be cheery.

I have much to be cheery about.

This is Randburg main North South Road.

"Alone we are smart.

Together we are brilliant!"

at Fourways High School

just around the corner from the Kinesiologist.

My heart is happy and peaceful when I see the Jacarandas.

John, Brenda and Vi arrived on Wednesday afternoon.

John and Brenda went off to Mabula on Friday.

Saturday we braaied with Doug, Nadia and some extended family.

Yesterday we had Dom and Cindy for lunch.

Redhill and Southampton Stroll

Some Southampton details...

We had some time to wait at the ferry port.

I decided to take a stroll.

Interesting.

I said to Glenn

"I have no phone... and no way of letting you know if I need you.

I have no means of telling the time either.

I will walk up this street and down back again."

These first few pictures were of a stroll we took in Redhill,

before catching the train to Southampton.

and from the ruin onward is my Southampton.

 

Here is my Southampton stroll.

This is right across the road from the ferry port.

The way they "Think Safety" here is interesting.

This is a building site.

I stopped at a Church and took a peek inside.

I love the hanging baskets of flowers all around.

I wonder when this wonderful gate was created?

 

Older building and newer right next to each other.

And I am back to the ferry port.

And onto the car ferry after meeting up with Patrick.

It is the week of the Isle of Wight Bestival so there are and will be

hordes of people there for the few days of the Bestival

(The Bestival is something like Woodstock I believe...)

Lovely sunset again.

We approach the ferry port on the Isle of Wight.

We drive off the ferry.

And off to Patrick and Angela for our last week with them.

The sunset continues.

The daylight here changes at the rate of two minutes a day

or an hour a month.

So in the almost three months we have been here we have had the

days become almost three hours shorter.

At the moment they are about equal in length.

 Back to Patrick and Angela's home for the past week.