Time for an Update ....

Would love to be telling you that this update is going to be so riveting that you won't be able to take your eyes off my blog ... but eh NO !!! our life is actually very BORING at the moment !!!

Its work, work, work .... followed by rugby, rugby and rugby ...

Finally we have finished all the costumes for the school play ... dress rehearsals were on Friday and we've done all the necessary alterations ... now we just wait for first show tomorrow to the school ... then first public appearance will be on Wednesday night ... good luck to all the kids and well done to all the teachers and their spouses who have put in many hard long hours to get it ready ... will keep you posted !!!

K's team played in the Semi-Finals on Sunday ...  beat their opposition 47-7 ... so that means next Sunday we're in the finals ... I really hope the boys win Gold this year .... they have worked sooo hard ... would be nice for them considering they have'nt lost a match this season ... all HVJR Colts teams have done well this season ... they are all in the finals of their respective leagues ...

And the only other thing to mention ... the weather ... it has been so unpredictable of late ... heavy rains caused this weekends Currie Cup match at The Shark Tank to be more like Water-polo rather than rugby .... the teams had great fun aqua-scoring their trys !!!

I warned you ... my post was going to be BORING ....but we have another long weekend coming up ... Heritage Day on Monday ... everyone should be out enjoying a lekker braai ... mmmm maybe NOT ... and then schools out from Friday 28th September ... when Dad (and hopefully Martyn) will be arriving ... the 'hopefully' Martyn comment is due to the fact that he has promised he's coming over for a visit ... but he's absolutely terrified (ok maybe just not happy) about the flying bit !!! We've given him the full rundown on how to be on the flight but 'miss it' ... hopefully the drugs will work ... or maybe he won't even get on the plane !!! (Martyn ... get on the plane!!!) ... fans ... I'll keep you posted on that too... Martyn ignore the last paragraph ...

I've done it ... Finally ...

How clever am I ???? I've FINALLY re-set my laptop so I can SEE all the icons etc ... so now .... hoooorrraaaayyyyy ... I'm back in business !!! (oops still a few missing ... but lets see how we go)

SO does this mean this is gonna be a long post ... probably !!!!!!

Lets see if I can give my 'fans' a brief run down of what we've been up to in the last 7 weeks .. we got back from our UK trip hitting the ground ...RUNNING !!! Kelsey was straight back to school and the start of club rugby ... so my weekends are a blur of SUNDAY rugby now as opposed to Saturday rugby ...

Oh we had a long weekend break 9th - 12th August ... and we (Kelsey, Heini, Granny, June, Irena & myelf) all went away to Margate to celebrate Kelsey's 15th Birthday ... stayed in a great self catering 'cottage' near the beach and it was fantastic ... the weather was perfect and the boys had a blast... it was so nice to be within walking didtance of the beach ... we even managed to get mum to the beach ... as soon as she found out there was Wimpy right on the seashore she was a happy camper LOL.

Then from 13th August - 29th August we had a 'visitor' from the UK ... a young lad called Theo ... he was here in SA with a school group from London... they were working and supporting one of our local 'community' schools ... and we were a host family to him ... what a lovely young lad ... K and him got along like they had known each other all their lives ... luckily Theo is a rugby player ...he's studying for his A levels and a bit of a maths 'boff' which was awesome for K ... cos the time he was here he was able to assist K in his maths homeworks and studies ... Theo's girlfriend Kyah was also part of the group and she stayed with HHS family too ... so it was nice to be able to take the two of them places ... we just had to take Theo to a live Shark's game ... Kyah joined us and their enthusiasm was so infectious ...and you can't possibly come all this way and not go the beach ... what another really fantatsic day ... made nicer by the fact Cheyne & her kids joined us as well as a group of K's friends ... and others from the 'visiting group' also joined ... in the end we almost took over the beach LOL ...

No sooner did Theo leave than we got a 'surprise' visit from dad ... wow feels like I'm running a B&B here at the moment LOL .... can't keep up with who's in and who's out !!!

Typical of Paul to choose an incredibly busy weekend to join his family ... I had to work 1st september ... the Gr7's had their annual Spring Tea ... so Saturday was FULL ... and on Sunday we had the pleasure of joining the Archery's at The Helenic to celebrate Babes 75th Birthday ... and before you knew it the weekend was biting the dust !!!!

AND another farewell to Dad ... Paul was off back to the UK Monday night but the nice thing is only 3 weeks and he's back again ... Holy Shit ... just where is this year going ???

WORK is manic ... it's been from school photos, to Maths Olympiads, to Gr7 Entrepeneurs Day to Spring Tea, to Gr7 school play costume production, to sports day and all the other stuff in between ... I'm really struggling to keep the head above water at the moment ... and I'm already wishing it was the end of September ... this has got to be THE busiest term ever !!!!

The weather has been crazy too ... from snow in the Berg to temperatures of over 32'c ... it's just so hard to keep up ... and all of this has been in winter ... who knows what the summer is going to be like !!!!