So, the fourth of January was elder daughter’s big 50th birthday.
I see I did not take one photo.
I will tell you why.
You will have to make do with a picture of younger daughter’s garden.
The plan was we would all meet at younger son’s place for a birthday lunch.
Older son went to Napier to pick up K and then to Bredasdorp to buy food for the said lunch.
I set off to Swellendam to fetch Michelle and her little son.
Duly fetched them and headed for younger son’s place.
The temperature there was in the forties!!!!!!
I do not do 40 degrees.
I do not do 35 degrees.
Hell, I do not like 30 degrees.
I melted.
No energy whatsoever.
Copious amounts of perspiration.
No interest in anything.
When everyone had gone on their way, I was still prostrate on the couch.
Younger son, now called B. does not have electricity.
They have a gas stove and fridge.
They have a generator when they want to use the washing machine.
So….no fans.
At a quarter to seven that evening it was still 28 degrees.
Pure madness.
I was sleeping on a couch in the lounge.
Let me rephrase.
I was lying on a couch sweating.
They live up against a mountain.
Lots of trees etc.
Also, baboons and snakes.
So….they close up everything at night.
I got up at midnight and sat, in the dark, on the deck.
I got up at two and did the same.
I got up at four and sat listening to roosters in the village.
At four thirty I thought “to hell with baboons and snakes”.
Opened the sliding door and went back to bed.
Where I had about two hours of sleep.
With no sleep the trip back was a bit of a nightmare.
Seven hours of hell.
Told B he is quite safe.
Will never come to live with him in the summer.
Well that is one person who will never get ‘mother overload’ it’s a very funny tale and although you suffered badly I could not help but see the funny side of it…sorry my dear!
Did I miss the episode where the wheels came off???
By: Patrecia (with an E) on January 29, 2018
at 7:32 pm
They didn’t come off literally!!!
By: granny1947 on January 29, 2018
at 8:19 pm
You really told that heatedly! One should keep one’s cool in these situations.
By: colonialist on January 30, 2018
at 12:01 am
No Col…I am just NEVER going anywhere that has that sort of temp again!
By: granny1947 on January 30, 2018
at 5:54 pm
Some places do get carried away with running a temperature — and anyone running in that temperature will have to be carried away!
By: colonialist on January 30, 2018
at 9:54 pm
good morning Granny, that was a heated episode. My Gammy, many many years ago, when she was alive, had a hand held fan that went everywhere with her, maybe you could get one of those, and loads of batteries 😉
By: Monica Ochse on January 30, 2018
at 8:37 am
Hehe…my DIL gave me one but I ran the battery down!
By: granny1947 on January 30, 2018
at 5:53 pm