You just gotta love Africa!!!

Firstly Happy Birthday today to Paul, it's really great that he's here celebrating his birthday with us (but damned expensive I gotta tell you ... pmsl) We started a new tradition when we arrived here at June's house ... we have to wait till we are all together tonight around the dinner table to open pressies and celebrate in true style ... (sorry Paul you gotta wait lol... even Kelsey had to wait at his young age :-)

Now onto this weeks South African challenge ... and boy is this a good one !!!!

You should all know by now that we are moving out of Aunty June's place into our own (rented) property (just have to remind you all that unfortunately our OWN house is still far from completion - any donations greatly appreciated ... lol), well with Paul being here we decided it would be a good idea to use his muscles and to move a lot of our furniture etc. out of storage into the house ... (obviously for us to use) So Monday we start ... now before we left UK I had a bit of a spending spree (what again) at IKEA ... gotta lurve that place for furniture ... well yes seems I'm not the only one that loves that place (and Jane this one will tickle you !!!) so do the BLOODY WHITE TERMITE ANTS here in SA !!! Yup you guessed it - Paul gets to the back of the storage unit where all my NEW bedroom furniture is standing - still in it's original packing directly from IKEA and as he lifts up one of the boxes and it collapses in a pile of 'termite shit!'

ALL of my new cupboards are infested with Termites !!! Eddie the storage man just shrugs his shoulders !!! points out the clause in the contract that says ..."storage is at the owners risk and no claim can be made to Brackenhill Storage for any damages whatsoever" !!!! I am FURIOUS ... according to the 'council/municipality' he should have the land treated for termites every 5 years ... he has the relevant certificates and he reckons "until we know we have a problem we don't get the guys out to spray or put down poison unnecessarily" SO guess what mate - you have a problem and now so do I !!!! Our unit is infested (seems they have a fondness for Swedish wood!!!) and so is the unit next door to ours (who happens to store cardboard in their unit !!!)

YOU JUST GOTTA LOVE AFRICA!!!

Paul & Lawrence (my brother) spent all day yesterday emptying the storage unit ... luckily the house we're moving into has a double garage (but the plan had been to use the garage for the business ... but hey move onto plan J!!! ;-0) Fortunately not much else has been damaged ... well except for some of mum's wedding album, but thankfully they don't like old photos!!! Just the album they are stored in (seems the don't like paper phew! my saving grace - they don't like acid & lignin free products PMSL, so none of them are gonna be scrapbookers lol)