November 2016 (Page 2)

It's Richard's birthday!Cape Town, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa This has to be the best planned birthday surprise ever! Richard ostensibly knows nothing about the arrangements, other than we’ve made some but he doesn’t know what. The rest of us are of course in the know. I apparently promised yesterday to be nice to Richard for the duration of his birthday but I forgot pretty early, only to be reprimanded by him and reminded of my promise. I feel this may be a bit of a long day now! We’re all up and about ready for our 9.30 start. We’ve booked our old friendRead More →

Our first full dayCape Town, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa Needless to say we all slept like logs our first night – a combination of no sleep, alcohol and spent adrenaline. The house is very familiar to four of us, and completely unfamiliar to the other four, so breakfast, such as it was, was a combination of patient tutoring of those who had yet to understand where anything was! Fortunately they’re all pretty quick learners so they soon got the hang of things! The plan for the day was pretty straight forward – the ladies were going to drop in at the local outdoorRead More →

Off we go!Cape Town, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa It’s 10 o’clock and we’re all packed and due to meet Karen and Geoff at 10.30 to drive down to Heathrow. We don’t fly until seven tonight but as its a Friday we thought we’d leave plenty of time to get there. The others are meeting us at the airport as Phil and Jenny have been to see Sophie, Richard and Jake, so are driving in from Banbury and Richard and Martha have been staying with Richard’s brother and are getting the train in. I’m just fiddling with the lock on my case – IRead More →