Welcome to England.

At least the weather will be good when you arrive - Sandy tells me that Sunday is forecast for 30 degrees. That is a lot hotter than SA is at the moment.
I hope you all had a good flight and that you are not too tired when your journey finally ends.
Have a wonderful weekend and remember that I love you all very very much.

Today is the day!!

Wow..... hard to believe that today has actually come. You must all be very excited about getting on the plane tonight and waking up in England in the morning....
I am quite sure that Tom and Anna are very excited to see you too, so that will be fun when you get there tomorrow. Not te mention your cousins of course and everyone else that is looking forward to seeing you including Mama Lou and Daddy O.
I love you all more than I can ever ever express.
xxxx

Father's Day

My darling darling children....
I have just received your 4 beautiful cards and the wonderful envelope that Mummy decorated so typically "mummy" style!!
Thank you for the love and the messages written by each of you in each card. To say "I miss you" would be a complete and utter understatement.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you.....

The Boer - Arthur Conan Doyle

"Take a community of Dutchmen, the type who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one ofthe most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer - the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain...."

2 weeks to go...

Wow - the final countdown has begun....
2 weeks from today is your last day in South Africa and the next day you will wake up just before you land in England..... Are you excited?
I am sure that the few days between now and then will be fraught with all sorts of issues and worries, but all will be OK. Please help and support Mummy as much as you can in this time as the job that she has between now and then to sort everything out is nothing short of MAMMOTH.
I love you - and am thinking of you every minute of every day.

Dolly Parton once said....

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain......

African bush fires

Every winter in South Africa the landscape is cleansed by these naturally occuring bush fires. Not a great picture but then again I was not hanging around as it was 20 feet from the car with flames 8 feet high....

Jesse....

You said that I look "tired and funny" in your comment about the picture of me and Daniella - your cousin. Well, it was almost a year ago. I was tired, but I look "funny" because i had shaved my beard off..... and I so know how much you hate that........ I won't do it again. OK?

Goodbye South Africa

Nine years to the day since Mummy, Megan and Jesse arrived in South Africa, I left SA as my home.
And you will all leave soon to be in the UK.
Change is a good thing. It comes with great sadness at times, but one should never look back. Only forward. Nothing of the past can be changed, but everything of the future is there to be made the way we want it to be.
I will see you all "on the other side".
Love you without end.
Daddy