Getting ready to go back to London

We have been very busy the last week: Lyn has been training the teachers of the "Amathemba" school in her new educational system. Amathemba is a school for children with FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) and other children with global development delays similar to those with FAS. During our London time in 2011 Lyn has developed a learning 'system' for this school. (maybe I have already reported this in an earlier post: now that I write it, it sounds awfully familiar!).

On Tuesday, I had lunch with some ex-collegues. We used to share a table in the SANS canteen at lunchtime and  as we were all fairly senior employees, this was known (by others, not by us) as the 'money table'. We discovered this just before the company closed down and since then we have been organising a nice lunch (often at a wine estate) once every 6 weeks or so. We discuss the old times and what we are up to now, speculate about what has happened to everyone else and talk the same nonsense we did 'back then'. Of course I have been missing out on the 'money table lunch' for 8 months and the other 5 were kind enough to let me pick the venue for a lunch on 10 January (we take turns in choosing the venue). Here is a picture of the other 5:

At the same time, I have been sorting out all sorts of things that needed sorting out which in the increasingly inefficient South Africa has been a bit frustrating. Then yesterday morning the geyser ('hot water cylinder') decided to pack up and it needed 4 hours of electricians and plumbers work to get it fixed. I really did not need that! Anyway, all is fine now (except for the delivery of a book for Lyn, which is way overdue). So we are getting ready to move back to London on Monday. From there we will go to Onbekommerd just before Easter, until early October, we are back here in Cape Town on 4 October (how's that for long term planning...). So today we had my parents and my sister and husband for a 'braai' on the Dolphin Beach balcony (for a change it was not blowing too hard).
The next post will probably be from London, we are too busy to do updates in the next few days.

Braai at Dolphin Beach