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The week ahead

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It is, as they say, looking a bit hectic.

Tomorrow: Hike and a music lesson. And then a football match to watch. Probably need to find a public holiday vet for the beagle as well. Today has not been a good day.
Tuesday: Back to school (not me). Music exam recording session (not me). Y11 farewell dinner (not me). Rearranged football match to play (me).
Wednesday: Last day at school (not me). Horseriding (not me). Arranged football match to play (me).
Thursday: Molton Brown Curry Club – with actual curry (me and I can’t wait).
Friday: First exam in a six week exam session (not me). Birthday dinner (not me, but I am invited).
Saturday: Mrs 6000 heads away for the weekend.

Bathroom renovations continue throughout.

All pretty straightforward then.

I was wrong (but I was also 100% right)

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Remember this post?

It was the one where I shared this graph:

And I said that the graph was 100% true. There is nothing more exciting than getting the front seat upstairs on a double decker bus at any age. I absolutely stand by that.

And then I said this:

I’m just sad that my kids never got to experience it. 

And that prompted an email from my dad. He expressed his disappointment that my usually unerring accuracy on the blog had… er… erred.

Because he attached this image of my kids. It was taken at 3:30pm on Thursday 12th July 2012, and there they are – aged 6 and very almost 4 – on the front seat upstairs on a double decker bus.

And that looks like the bottom of West Street.

To be fair, I wasn’t there. I had no idea that this had happened.
This was clearly a Grandma and Granddad sponsored trip to town.
I was uninvolved.
(I was probably in a pub somewhere.)

So I was wrong. My kids did get to experience it.

But did they enjoy it?

Well, let’s check this photo, taken a minute later at the junction of Holly Lane.

Oh, I think so.

So it looks like I was absolutely right, as well.

A quick post on a rainy day

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Yes, seriously: a rainy day.

We don’t get many of them in Cape Town at this time of the year.

Anyway, two things to cover today. The main one being the widespread outrage* at the lack of a beagle update in yesterday’s post. I won’t be making that mistake again.

The beagle is doing fine, thank you very much. A first check-up with the vet this morning was passed with flying colours and we are now moving on towards bandage removal next week. Stitches and staples will come out the week after that, and then there’s this crazy plan to get her into a swimming pool for some hydrotherapy.

Good luck with that.

The other thing is to do a control image for yesterday’s Heathrow picture. Because how do you know that it isn’t always that quiet (although, you do).

So here’s that one for you. Some catch-up going on.

On that note, we’ve got a quiet day overhead today, with all the local planes taking off to the North, and not bothering this side of the peninsular at all.

Like how I tied that all together at the end?
Mmm. Me too.

* I got a whole email

Yo-yo

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Sorry if you’ve been trying to read the blog today.

The blog today has been very trying to read.

And I know that there will been some or even fewer of you who have been anxiously waiting on things to start working again. For the record, I have no idea what’s been going on.

More ups and downs than a top-end Championship club over a 10 or 12 year period. I couldn’t even fit them all on the screenshot. Burnley, Norwich, West Brom, you-know-who.

I’ve been in touch with the web hosting company I use over in North Carolina, and I’m waiting to hear what they have to say about this unacceptable and frankly untenable situation.

Who knows if this post will even make it onto the internet? And if it does, who knows if you’ll be able to read it? For the moment, the good news is that each time it’s gone down, it’s bounced back up again. But that reboundability is not what I’m paying for. And it’s not what you deserve.

It’s not what any of us deserve.

I blame the new political system in the US. They are messing up everything else in the world. So it seems likely that they’re messing up this blog as well.

Bastards.

EDIT (5 minutes after I hit the PUBLISH button):

Gosh.

Iffy arvo

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Things started well today, but it all went south from about lunchtime, and our geographical position in the bottom corner of Africa, doesn’t really allow much wiggle room in that regard.

So please forgive these few lines, and normal service will – hopefully – return tomorrow.