Back in the village

Back again. That flew by quickly. Al and Tori are now successfully married. To eachother. And that is super. Tori is also with child so it is very much all go in the family progress department. The only sad thing is that we are based out here and can’t spend time with the happy couple over the next few months to the birth and beyond. We should return to a wee baby in early 2010.

My body is ruined after a week of food abuse and heavy drinking. It was an ace time in lovely surroundings. My best man’s speech went well and I kept the swearing to a minimum to parents’ delight. Saw lots of family which was brilliant. We were in a slightly bizarre culture shock mode but hopefully it didn’t show too much. My niece Isla is so different now and so lovely. Liz, Ian and her arrived after a long car journey and I stuck my big beardy face real close to say “hi”. Needless to say it scared the crap out of her and she screamed. Nice.

Got a lovely welcome back here in Zithulele as pretty much everyone came round to say hi. Monique who has been borrowing our house had cooked our dinner and cleaned the place so that was lovely.

It is odd to be back. Great to be in our home and not hoboing around at other peoples houses or hotels (though those were are mint). We will be slobbing hard this week. Kim is on call this weekend which is crap in one way but quite good to get it out of the way.

We flew from Joburg to Mthatha over the Drachensburg mountains, which are more than likely spelt differently than that. They are beautiful though. I am keen to go and walk about in them. Kim would rather eat broken glass smothered in dung than do so, so I need to work the persuasive angle there.

The long flight from London was eased by another awesome upgrade courtesy of Al’s e-mailing the flight crew. Had a good sleep and watched good movies and the food was, well, good. Economy class really is not good enough anymore. I wonder if I could ever afford to travel club everywhere I went?

In other annoyances, I realized that all of the e-mails that I sent the DfT did not get there because of DISCRIMINATION against yahoo. The DfT is an e-mailist Department and must be stopped. I will try to resend the e-mails from another address and apologise to people who think that I am rude, rather than simply incompetent.

Decided to try to keep up the blog a bit more so we will see how that goes.