Saturday 6 June.
Things were beginning to get back to normal and we began to settle down. Though Moira was slow in getting any improvement with her cough, the antibiotics are taking a time to do any good; I was also starting to feel down with my throat still sore and not getting any better.
After breakfast but before showering I went up to the loft and began to bring down some boxes with our stuff that are packed there. Most of the boxes were in good condition but I came across one that had obviously been eaten into by some animal. The packing paper inside was all shredded, the beastie had used it to make a bed. I handed it down to Moira and she put it out on the back patio. After I had moved enough of the boxes down for present I went outside to inspect the chewed up carton. I opened it up and a huge rat ran out. It scampered across the patio and through a hole in the fence into the next complex. Moira is now a bit frightened and careful when she opens any of the boxes.
I found the DSTV box for connecting to the satellite channels and we can see about getting reconnected. Unfortunately the gardener employed by the site hasn't been doing much at our house and the climbing shrub that Moira planted to cover the front awning has gone wild and is now covering the satellite dish. We will wait until Monday and hopefully get the gardener to cut it back. Now after showering we headed out to the South Coast Mall at Shelley Beach to see about a WiFi provider. Last time we were here we got a good deal for the WiFi from Telecom but they had moved from the Mall to Shelley Centre. We found a Vodacom shop and they wanted about £30 for 10 Gig. While at the Mall Moira got hooks for the curtains in the lounge that were missing.
We left the Mall and went to the Shelley Centre on the coast. We went to the MTN shop first but nobody was interested in serving us. It was the same at Telecom, we were left standing and there was nobody available to even give basic info about the price of WiFi. We decide to settle for the Vodacom deal and there was no problem getting served there, so they got our business. The assistant was very good and it didn't take her long to set up a SIM card with 10 Gig, ready to use when we put it into our dongle when we get home. We wanted to get a cable with mini scart plugs for the recorder and there was supposed to be an electronic shop in the centre but we couldn't find it. We settled on returning to 'Tweni and go to the TV shop there.
When we got back we deiced to go to the library but had to pick up our tickets at the house first. Unfortunately the library had closed when we got there, we forgot that most things close for a half day on Saturdays in SA. The TV shop was still open, he supplied me with an adaptor that fits into the scart on the recorder and has sockets for three wires that go to the TV. The cable plugs were red, yellow and white; it looked like the cable we have for the DSTV connections. I just bought the adaptor and would return if I needed the cable. When home it turned out to be a very easy job, the DSTV cable was the right one and once it was wired up I got the recorder's library without having to tune the box in; amazing! Also the WiFi was working and we were able to download yesterday and today's newspapers.
I found our bowls when I was bringing stuff down from the loft earlier. We had thought about playing but now Moira wasn't feeling good and didn't want to have a coughing fit while trying to line up a shot on the green. We settled on leaving it until next week but after lunch decided to drive down to 'Tweni bowling club and watch them play for an hour or so. The weather was nice, what we expect in SA and now we were able to take off our fleeces. Moira drove down and parked outside the club. The green wasn't busy, there was three rinks only and playing trips. We didn't go in straight away but walked round the block to the beach. The wind blowing in from the sea and was a bit cool so we didn't hang about for long. The surf was magnificent with some really huge waves but nobody was out surfing.
When we got back to the bowling green we sat at the far side in the sun to watch the play. The president of the club, we didn't know him, came over and welcomed us and was very friendly. We asked about some of the old members we and been friendly with, a few had died, like the Irishman Joe Heron and the Dutchman Sim (his widow Rhia was still living but had moved to Pretoria). Others had given up due to old age - Felicity, or moved away - Bep had gone to Pietermaritzburg. There were a few we knew playing today, Peter, Geoff and Toby, and a couple of faces that were familiar but couldn't remember their names. We were made very welcome and invited to join them at the break for a cup of tea. We sat with Peter 'take more grass' Brewer and Tony Korb ( a past president) and talked about old times. They don't seem to have the long talks by the president at the breaks as he seemed to make an exception today and got up and welcomed us officially as old members and invited us to come again and play. After tea we watched for another half an hour then made our farewells before heading home.
We had pork chops, cauliflower and potatoes for dinner tonight. Moira is trying to cut on the portions we are eating as we are beginning to put on weight, especially round our middles. When we relaxed after washing up I put on the Freeview recorder and watched a 'Dalziel and Pascoe' that was in the library. We had seen it before, a long time ago but it took a while to remember it. It was our usual time when we got to bed.
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