On Edge

“You don’t know what you’ve got ’til you lose it”, said Phil Collins.
To be fair, I’d never paid much attention to Phil, but suddenly, I’ve realised that he was right all along. Because being without decent internet having had decent internet is driving us slowly mad.
True, we’re here to chill out, kick back and relax, but the internet can be used as a leisure thing too. It’s not all work, work, work, you know? Except that it becomes hard work when it doesn’t go very quickly.

Thus, popping into the metropolis of L’Agulhas, with its HSDPA connection, and pizza, and beer on tap seems like one of the best decisions we’ve made recently.

Later, back to pre-history and something-only-ever-so-slightly-better-than-dial-up.
But first, beer and pizza, obviously.

Towering success

Our engineering skills were eventually defeated by the incoming South Atlantic Ocean, but it took a whole lot longer than we expected.
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If we’d been allowed to use cement, scaffolding and possibly a large crane, I’m totally convinced that it could have lasted even longer.

Saving Amphibians

We made a lunch stop at Houw Hoek Inn today and while in the play area, the kids saved a couple of toads that had fallen into the pit beneath the ground level trampoline.

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They were surrounded by the desiccated bodies of their brethren (the toads, not the kids), and thus seemed very happy to be released safely down by the river there.