I CAN'T BLOG FAST ENOUGH!

I did mention that geezer in the last blog…….. Well, the insurance company authorized a replacement and the fellows showed up yesterday. Once they were underway, I headed to the nearby paint store to sort out a mistint (Oh Paint Colours Unlimited, I miss you!). I returned home 20 minutes later to hear our normally calm cleaner yelling at the workers in the attic. Niagara Falls was gushing through through the ceiling flooding the kitchen!

The workers acted as if this was perfectly normal occurrence and what were we so concerned about? I called the company doing the repairs and noticed on their business card that immediately after “plumbing services”, they listed “ceiling repairs”. Mmmhhhh…. well, we’ve had the estimator from the company here, the insurance adjuster showed up and in the middle of it all the fellow who’s been trying to repair the security gate for the past two weeks arrived. And I wonder why I can’t get out beyond these walls most days!

The conclusion is that the ceiling will be pulled down and repaired and the kitchen walls (painted yesterday!) will be repainted! EISH!

ON the up side, we have been cooking away and I made the most simple and DIVINE dessert the other night. Figs are in season—I baked fresh figs with red wine and cardamom. Two cardamom pods gave it such incredible flavour—beee-u-tiful! But it’s not just figs in season, since it’s summer and most fruits are grown here in SA, we get the most wonderful produce: incredible white nectarines, delicate asparagus, aromatic mangoes—in fact, it’ll be ginger mango salsa with the chicken tonight.

THAT WAS YESTERDAY.

This morning was off to a great start—Oliver, the gardener from Zim showed up. We were so relieved! The garden is so big, I just don’t know where to begin, so Oliver simply decides what to do with it and runs with it and he’s good. What a relief! Found a great hair salon right in Emmarentia. The guys at the paint store replaced the mistint without charge. I was on a roll.

And then the plumber showed up. We have a shiny new geezer and barely tepid water this morning. We called and asked then to come and adjust the thermostat. And what did they do? Disconnect the power!! I only discovered later that the power is now out in the kitchen. Numerous calls. It’s 4pm and no sign of the electricans….

Oh yeah and that magnetic lock that we’d been waiting for for two weeks that was installed yesterday. It fell off the gate this morning. maybe there's a message here that were ignoring....

But, damn, my hair looks great!