The Perelson's Space

In 5 week's time a new addition to our family will arrive.  A Border Terrier will be coming to join us.

This is resulting in a fair amount of discussion and planning and a little concern too.  Where's he going to sleep?  Where's he going to eat?  Who's going to look after him?  What's he going to chew?  Where's he going to poo?

Of course, being the sort of "organisational" folk that we are, we've already started buying doggy goods, like the chew toys and the kennel(s?) and the bed(s?).

The girls are very excited, and so am I.  I have never had a dog of my own, and I'm looking forward to the companionship and fun that I hope we will have.

I'll post more about him when he arrives.

Andrew.

A crisis has befallen us!  On Friday, just after our power had come back on - after the regular load-shedding outage - the substation that feeds our area "blew up"!  Yes, that's the technical term!

So, we have been without electricity since Friday afternoon.  That's 5 days and counting...

We are camping in our own home.  Battery powered lights and other stuff.  Gas powered cookers.  Showers at other people's homes.  No hot water to shave or wash with.

Hopefully it will come back on soon - they say maybe today or tomorrow.

Andrew.

Last year for my birthday, I decided to do something a little different and so I arranged one of those slippy slides with the water and foam and we all took turns running and sliding down the slide - just like a kids party, but for adults as well!

This year for my birthday I wanted to also do something different, so we had a "Picture Perfect Pursuit".  I asked my sister-in-law to compile a list of 10 "clues" and then each family or couple was tasked with going out and taking a digital picture of something that could be considered the answer to the clue.

It was great fun, and something we could do with the kids in tow too.  Once all the pictures were taken, we met back at the house and all viewed and judged the pictures and then braai-ed (of course!)

This was our answer for "A Good Deal":

And this was our answer for "Ebony & Ivory":

Andrew.

I have now installed Windows Live Writer and it is my intention to blog family updates regularly from now on.

The girls are on holiday at the moment.  It seems to be about 3 weeks that they are on holiday for and this is the 2nd or 3rd week.  As you can tell, I've lost track of that!

Friends of ours are leaving for Argentina tomorrow.  I predict they will have a great time!  Their kids are a little older than ours.  I have visions of us heading off overseas for family trips - not sure if that will ever happen though.

Leigh-Anne now has her own web site: http://www.gentlebirth.co.za - it has already paid for itself which is great.

Andrew.