Come home

and i made jelly and milk ice lollies.

at lunch time today and left the office (gasp! shock!!) with my camera to do a bit of Cape Town city exploring.

where i live is an hour out of the city. i only come in for work 2 days a week and it’s good to be in the bustle and Africanism of the streets of Cape Town CBD. Always a little nervous of having the camera out as there are so many snatch-thieves around but managed to get some pics of a public toilet or two (Yay) and some of the Pan African Market.

Will post later.

this afternoon i’ll be at the annual ‘noordhoek common fair’ which is a really chilled event nearby. there’s stuff for kids to do, tho last year raph spent all his time playing at savages in the stream which runs around the common, with all the hippy kids that are always there.

i love to lie on the grass in the sun with a beer by the outdoor stage where good SA music is played all afternoon, watching all the pretty hippie boys and girls and kids dancing around.

it’s a real peace love and other bullshit event and always marks the start of my summer here.

i had nothing planned when i left work this afternoon…

now i have so many options i have to decide which invitations to decline.

and all with people i love spending time with.

yay:)

i’m making an effort here to create a life with more cast members, broadening my horizons, leaving my comfort zones etc. There are so many opportunities to meet people in summer here, and i’m realising all it takes is a friendly smile – in some cases at least. I feel like my feet are a bit more on the ground here again, and it’s beach sand! So i’m stopping being pathetic and getting on with enjoying my life because who knows where i’ll be tomorrow, perhaps somewhere else wishing i had made the most of what is right in front of me.

tomorrow night i’m camping with 12×8-year old boys (and a couple adults)

we’re doing midnight swims, scary campfire stories and hide and seek in the dark.

cool! can’t wait…

a back massage tonight. my hands smell all lovely from the babyoil gel i used.

_{wish i had someone here to give me one:(}

ah well the Ex will be back in 3 weeks and he’s got a great touch.

but last night was better.

got a busy few days ahead with camping, hiking etc and the temp. is 30 degrees C outside so no better time to get outside and start living ‘here’ again.

went to a meeting at my son’s school tonight on ‘Gender and the Brain’ where tthe topic was the differenc in the way boys and girls brains work.
all very interesting.

except it turns out my son maay in fact be a girl.

anyhow it was good to go, and be with real people (as in 3D) and to speak about things that aare important to me

doing swimmingly on this goal.

Cheer for me!

Feels good to be on the road back.