Don’t be jealous

After another perfect day at the Southern Tip – inexplicably marked by us buying a new mattress – I am suitably knackered and have turned upon a Devonvale 2006 Cab Sauv/Shiraz blend for some sort of late evening support.

We spent some of the day (the bit not buying the mattress) on Struisbaai beach with surprisingly few others.

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Here is Alex with his own Indian Ocean, although in this particular picture, it does seem to be chasing him somewhat. Would that be some sort of mutiny? Whatever. I digress. Often.

But the fact is that given that I’m still on this whole Easter break thing, there’s really not much to report – especially if I don’t want to lose even more readers through jealousy. Already, I sense deep envy over the whole new mattress thing. Now, if I was to tell you that after a day buying new mattresses (one) and enjoying time on that beach, we ate lazily braaied steaks and drank red wine while watching the Cape Weavers* and almost listening to the new Depeche Mode album**, you’d just switch straight off, amirite?

To bring things back to reality, I did get a lot of sand in my boot on the beach and I am going to be back at work on Monday morning. But generally, life is good and if me telling you that annoys you, please feel free to ask for a full refund.

* It's a bird (Ploceus capensis) not a folk band or anything.
** Described by Mrs 6000 as "too dark and not relaxing enough for the cottage"***
*** She did also say that one of the tracks "sounded really Depeche Mode". Yep. ****
**** Can you have a footnote of a footnote? Is it allowed?

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