The Sea View Apartment

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Helga

Friday

Today was the day…

We swam, despite the wind. It was a little windy – not blowing as hard as it is now, but a fresh south-easterly blew us to the beach. The sea was choppy, murky and chilly, but I still managed 2km. It took me a bit of time to warm up. Right now it’s really turbulent outside. The south-easter is howling. There will be no swimming tomorrow.

We got home, had a shower, breakfast and then I did an hour’s work.

Then it was down to the Little Lookout to spruce it up for guests. I get a bit intimidated when those who are coming also have an Airbnb. They know the drill and they know the expected standard. Whenever I start a deep clean, I get the feeling I’m on a reality show and someone is coming to assess me.  Always satisfying.

Guest arrived at 2:30pm. His wife comes later tonight and they are here for 3 nights.

Meantime, we have a blackboard up at our new rental unit. The place is not quite ready but is moving in the right direction.

Meantime, Courage is working on the wall.

It’s looking so good and is about to get higher.

I’m tired tonight. I went to bed later than usual last night and it’s all caught up with me.

Good night!

1 John 3:1

See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are!

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

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The Joy of the Amaryllis

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Helga

Thursday

Today was the day…

Our Amaryllis blossomed and flowered and looked beautiful. On the Sunday before last, we had gone to Cattle Baron at Harbour Bay and afterwards we stopped at Pick n Pay to pick up a couple of things. Mike spotted this Amaryllis and it just grabbed his attention so we bought it. It grew in leaps and bounds!

Every day it was growing inches.

And then the first flower came and then the second and the third. It is blossoming.

It has three flowers…

They are beautiful and bringing us joy!

This morning, it rained. The weather forecast for rain at 7am was spot on. The beach had to wait. I worked this morning and then at 2pm, I walked to the beach. Mike didn’t join me as he had work to do. The shark exclusion net was in place and I had a fine time swimming my 2km up and down to the barrel. Underwater visibility was pretty bad, and with a strong north wind pushing, it was easy to swim off course. It was hard swimming into the wind and easy swimming with it. I was home just after 3:30pm. I did a little more work and then we had an early dinner. I was starving!

This evening, I had a chat with David. I’d had an earlier chat with Stacey as well. David has arrived at his next destination and so his new life continues away from Fish Hoek. I think he’s loving it. No one knows him. Everything is new. Hopefully load-shedding won’t continue for too long!

John 15:13

Greater love has on one that this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

 

 

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Photos at Dawn

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Helga

Wednesday

Today was the day…

I woke up super early – before 5am. I looked out our bedroom door – the sky was inky black.  No moon. It was still and windless. The sea was like glass. And quite low on the horizon was Venus, twinkling brightly and casting a tiny glow of light onto the sea. I’ve seen before, a full Moon reflecting a broad highway of light across the ocean, but never  Venus – which looks like a star from where we are – dropping a delicate bead of gold onto the surface of the water.  It was quite remarkable. And in my irritating spousal way, I oohed and ahhed with great abundance, waking Mike in the process. He grunted sleepily and showed his disapproval by pulling the duvet over his head and digging down deeper into the pillows. But my work was done. I’d woken him up!

He got up to go to the bathroom. By then I was back in bed. On his return, I urged him to go to the door and see the spectacle for himself. He was as impressed as I. It’s almost worth setting the alarm for. As dawn came, the effect diminished. At 5:45am, I took a photo and downloading it for today’s blog, I noticed the pin prick of (now rising) Venus still just visible along side the upper left cloud.

An hour later, the sun had come…

We were at the beach by 7am. Swimming conditions were great, but the water was colder than yesterday. We were home by 8:30am and had a cooked breakfast. It was a good start to the day.

I worked, did some shopping and we had dinner out.

All in all a satisfying day.

John 15:9

I have loved you even as the Father has loved Me. Remain in My love.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

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More About The Rail Tracks on FH Beach

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Helga

Tuesday

Today was the day…

We got to swim this morning. Tide was very low so it was easy to swim in the shallows. I took a bit of time but did 2km. It was just beautiful.

More information came to light today about the railway tracks found on Fish Hoek beach yesterday. They were not the tracks that carried the train to the Clovelly side. They were the tracks that held the palisade fencing together. I went onto FB and found a whole lot of related stories. Ratepayers said this…

Then the City of Cape Town released these photos showing the palisade fence with the old rusty tracks connecting them together…

Brian Martin put an illustration on Google maps to show where the railway ran (orange line through the red-roof housing complex),  compared to where the palisade fencing was located.

So that’s solved that mystery.

Today Megan left. She was in the Seaview Apartment (David’s unit) and came up and had a cup of coffee with us before she left. I think we may get to see her again. A couple arrived to stay in the cottage for 2 weeks. They will then go travelling for a further few weeks and then return here for 3 nights, before flying home.  New booking for the Little Lookout on Friday for three nights. Julian arrived today as well.

A new month! Yay for February!

Psalm 136:2

Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

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Railway Tracks on Fish Hoek Beach

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Helga

Monday

Today was the day…

Venus was again very visible in the morning sky. We saw the new moon rising. It was amazing. Just a sliver of moon spotted early in the morning just before sunrise. When the moon is new or full the tides tend to be super high and super low. Today something really strange happened during high tide at Fish Hoek beach – down the Clovelly side. The strong high tide pushed an enormous amount of sand towards the dune, creating a wall of sand and unearthing old railway lines that the Railway company put in back in 1929. (Photo from Facebook taken by Sheila Mary Belshaw)

Fish Hoek Valley museum was quickly referred to and came up with the history.

They also posted this historic photo…

The tide waits for no man and later in the day it was high again and the tracks were underwater. It’s going to be interesting to see if they get swallowed up by ocean bed again. If I ever swim that side, I’ll be more weary of what is beneath.

The sea around Cape Town has been strange since the Tonga volcano erupted. At first, I didn’t think there could be any association, but I read online that that volcano eruption was 500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bombing. Could it be possible that the huge waves off our coast a couple of weeks ago were as a result? Who knows!

One thing about this evening is the sun is turning the clouds into huge majestic puffs of pink and golden candifloss! My cell phone camera doesn’t do justice to the changing beauty…this was just before 8pm..

So early today, we finished cleaning the cottage for tomorrow’s guests. They arrive from the UK tomorrow morning and are here for 2 weeks.

I worked for 6 hours.

Last day of January 2022.

John 13:7

You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.

Great reminder.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

 

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Contentment in the Little Things

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Helga

Sunday

Today was the day…

I found contentment in the little things. What’s interesting is those little things actually are quite big ones if they are the moments that will bring contentment.

Sitting in my rocking chair, doing my Bible reading. Right there was a nugget of contentment.

Folding the linen for the cottage. Okay, so maybe not so spiritual nor noble, but necessary and satisfying.

And, peeling pawpaw! It is my morning breakfast ritual.

If yesterday was the day I spent R350 on a rocking horse, today was the day I spent R30 on garden messages.  One in the pot plant outside the entrance to the Little Lookout and one alongside the flourishing vine.

It’s a girl thing.

Today we also kept an eye on and then watched the end of the Australian tennis final between Daniil Medvedev and Rafa Nadal. In winning, Nadal because the first player to win 21 grand slams. Today’s match was a nail-biter as Medvedev took the first two sets in dominating style. Rafa had no chance, but it seemed it took those first sets for him to find his feet and start reading  his opponent. It didn’t help that Rafa’s serve all but deserted him. He crawled his way back and began to play more decisively, finally leading to victory. Good game.  With Nadal, Djokovic and Federer all aging, Medvedev is the guy to watch. He’s already ranked #2 in the world.

It’s been a relaxing Sunday.

Genesis 32:12

You have said, “I will surely make you prosper.”

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

 

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Today I Bought This

Posted on January 29, 2022 by Helga

Saturday

Today was the day…

I bought this! I am way too excited about buying this toy, especially as it’s probably already too small for Elsie, but it was so cute and I’ve wanted to get one for ages. It can go down from generation to generation.

I got it from a second hand shop and as I walked out, I found buttons in the ears. Press the button in the left ear and there is the sound of galloping. Press the button in the right ear and there is neighing. I’ve put it in the corner of the cottage for the moment. Maybe in the decades ahead when future family are scrolling through my endless words, they will come across this entry and have a date on which I bought the rocking horse.

Yesterday I was looking at Agar’s trunk.

This trunk has 3 names above me and there are now 2 below me. Agar was my great grandmother. I never met her.

Agar, Mops, Liz, Helga,  Stacey, Elsie. At the moment it sits in my lounge but perhaps one day, Elsie will inherit it and my great granddaughter will be in line to get it.

And perhaps as I imagine the trunk going down the generations, the rocking-horse starts its journey as well.

Whenever I think to generations past, I wonder which ones were praying for me. As I pray for Stacey’s children and grandchildren, were their pray-ers praying for me? I know my parents prayed, but did they have great grandparents that had faith to believe that more than 100 years later, there would be descendants that walked the earth carrying their genes and having the faith that they prayed for?

That’s what faith is. Belief in those things we cannot see. Let me be the pray-er praying for my great, great grandchildren – that they will have faith – strong faith and trust that the words of the Bible are true and that they can have peace in a turbulent world. Jesus is there. 120 years from now, He is there.

So it’s not just a rocking horse – it’s not just a trunk. They are gifts to the coming generations, signs that we existed and that our actions influence their lives.

And while I’m here, talking about the faith that transcends centuries, let me remind you dear future family, this house, which I hope still stands in the century ahead, has Granny’s Bible (Mike’s Mom) cemented in the foundation – a gift from a pray-er – that our lives are founded on the Word of God and it is central to our being. If I had to do it again, I’d cement in the foundations, the Bibles of both my Mom and Dad. They were pray-ers and if any of us have faith today, they too get some credit. Granny’s Bible wrapped in plastic, ready for the concrete pour.

Isaiah 25:1

Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You and praise Your name, for in perfect faithfulness You have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

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Remembering Ma

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Helga

Friday

Today was the day…

I remembered my dear Ma who passed away 18 years ago today. A never to be forgotten day and  moment in time when she slipped from this life to the next. Always a poignant day. She was not yet 72. One of the things that always amazes me when this day comes around are the words of Psalm 23. We read it at her bedside in those final moments of her life. It was on the service sheet at her memorial service. And, it is remarkably the psalm for the 28th January in my ‘read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year’ plan. Only the Lord knew it would be there. We fear no evil. The Lord is with us. His rod and His staff comforts us. Here’s Ma with my nephew. She loved being a Granny.

Ma would have liked what I did today. She would have enjoyed it too. Remember this:

I had a bath. I put the jets on and had a good soak. Then I turned them off and sat in the silence.  So relaxing.

The 5 things I could see. The last of the swimmers enjoying the warm but choppy waves;  a dog walker or two taking a sunset stroll;  Clovelly golf club  bathed in golden rays; the mountains; the trees blowing in the wind.

The 4 things I could touch – the tap, the end of the bath, my knees, my towel.

The 3 things I could hear – the TV in the distance;  the clock ticking; the water lapping.

The 2 things I could smell – the soap and the aromatic smell of Julian’s apartment – a mix of leather, wood and books.

The 1 thing I could taste – lingering taste of desert – ice cream.

Ma would have loved the bath!

I’m not sure she would have been an eager sea swimmer, but the day was perfectly still and a swim was essential. Ma loved the beach, but just sitting on the bench watching the world go by. I was part of the world. I swam to the lighthouse, quickly turning back when I hit the fishermen’s rope. Half way back, Mike appeared. I swam for a little longer. The water was beautifully warm. At least 19C. Afterwards, Mike and I watched the trek fishermen pulling in their catch. We didn’t wait for the fish to arrive as it began to drizzle.

We walked home as quickly and most directly as we could. A hot shower followed, breakfast and work.

It was a good day.

Psalm 23:1

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want. He restores my soul.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

 

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Burst Water Pipe

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Helga

Thursday

Today was the day…

We didn’t swim – the wind blew. It has died down now and we are hoping it will stay like this until tomorrow morning, so we can get a swim in.

Courage worked the entire day to get the new security gate in place at the entrance to the Little Lookout. It looks pretty good. Hopefully, the next one won’t take quite so long. I’m not sure when he’ll get the Seaview Apartment’s up. I really want a double lock entry at each of these units.

What’s  nice is the gate completely folds away & matches the lattice! Who knew!

We went shopping this morning. I needed some extra linen – protective linen, so I got a really nice tight-fitting double bed mattress protector and 4 pillow protectors from Pep Home. Best prices and the ones I got were good quality. The kettle in the apartment wasn’t working, so we bought a new kettle and we bought a 2 plate table top stove. A successful rapid hour of shopping.

Home to work and to report the burst water pipe right in front of our house. There has been water oozing out the tar, in the middle of the road for a number of days. While we had guests, I was hesitant to report it because I know these things can take days to repair. Today, with the cottage empty, I phoned the Council. This evening I went down to the cottage and there was the city working for me!

A stitch in time saves 9. It was a small pipe leaking. It was easy to find and fix. The water is back on.

My guests are over Namibia…

They are due in just before 10:30pm. They will be met by Don from ‘Drive with Don’ – useful to know about him. He will drop me a line from the airport to give me an estimated time of arrival. I am not a night person. I’ve set the alarm for midnight. I don’t think they will arrive before half past 12. Meet, greet, hand over the key, sleep well. All I’m doing now is printing out Wifi instructions because those I usually Whatsapp. A few weeks ago, Mike dug out an old laminator and I’ve got it heating up, so I can laminate the Wifi instructions. It smells like it’s cooking something! Mike’s just come in from adjusting the LL outside light. He told me I have to open a little flap to let the heat out. I’m waiting for the green light. The smell is abating. You are getting a blow by blow account of Helga’s poor laminating skills!

Let me go and do it!

Psalm 20:4

May He grant your heart’s desires and make all your plans succeed!

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

PS. David arrived safely at Stillbaai.

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The Seaview Apartment

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Helga

Wednesday

Today was the day…

Mike and I started playing chess! We have not played chess for decades. David gave Mike a chess set for Christmas and today, on a whim, Mike said ‘let’s have a game’. My response was if he wins, I win and if I win, he wins. We are both pretty competitive and so we need to downscale the loss factor and just enjoy the process.

It was a good game and came down to the wire. Mike won!

The other thing that happened today is we got to see David. He drove back from Stanford to pick up his driver’s license which had arrived, so he stopped by to say hello and I got to spend 45 minutes with him before he goes off on  his extended round the Western Cape/ Eastern Cape travels. He has given Courage an old bike and they had a discussion about it before he left.

A big moment today was officially settling on a new name for the one bed unit (which we commonly called David’s place) – it is now The Seaview Apartment.  As David lived there, there were quite a few things that needed to be done to make it Airbnb-able. The bathroom window opens up onto the workshop. The window is frosted but if you opened it you saw the saw! This is the window from the workshop side…

Mike bought some blue corrugated plastic. He constructed a frame and put the screen onto it so there’s still airflow from the top.

This is what it looks like from inside the bathroom.

Then Megan moved into it! Who’s Megan? She’s the missionary that came to us through Airbnb for a few days. She was staying in the Little Lookout and today I said if she wanted to stay longer, she could move up to The Seaview Apartment. Win! She’s in! She’s here until Tuesday. She may stay longer but I haven’t published the Airbnb profile, so she can stay as long as she likes.  She’s very sweet.  I don’t know much about her circumstances or plans, but it’s good to have her.

Now I’ve got the Little Lookout open.

The wind has been strong today, but tomorrow it looks like it abates a little – whether or not it is enough to be go for a dip remains to be seen. We’ll decide in the morning.

A good day.

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

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Found My Niche

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Helga

Tuesday

Today was the day…

Ruth came with Courage and she did the cottage clean after the bikers left. They left the place pretty clean. It wasn’t too bad at all. Ruth gave the cottage a deep clean. Next guests arrive on Thursday.

I did all the linen and while I was folding it up, I got this satisfactory feeling of having found my niche. I’ve done quite a lot of different things in my life. Nursing, then selling radio advertising, radio presenting & now I’m in teacher recruitment. All have come with a degree of satisfaction, but none have led me to feel how I felt today. I’ve found my niche! I love being a host of a guesthouse. Airbnb makes it super easy & I really enjoy it. If David’s unit is not rented by next week, it will join my Airbnb dashboard. I took some more photos for Airbnb. These came from the cell phone with the better (wide angle lens) camera! The Airbnb page is just waiting to be published.

There are a few more things before it’s up to scratch & they should get done over the next day or two. Tomorrow, I have someone coming to check it out & I’m waiting for one other person to get back to me.  We have to be good stewards of what God has given us.

The wind is howling and forecast to continue through tomorrow. We may get a swim in on Thursday. Friday morning looks okay but the rest of the weekend a bit iffy as far as the wind goes.

Jeremiah 15:11

The Lord said, “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose.”

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

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Learning From Past Airbnb Stays

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Helga

Monday

Today was the day…

Overcast, with a touch of humidity but cooling later with fresh winds. The swim was great but we are expecting stronger south-easterly winds tomorrow and Wednesday. I have an inkling the next swim will be Thursday.

So I’ve been thinking about my very short experience as an Airbnb host and what I have learned from other Airbnbs that I have visited in the past.  I think the one I learned the most from was in Florence. It was October 2013 and we were travelling through Italy with Julian. I had found the most amazing place quite close to the centre of Florence. The biggest thing about it was its age.  A medieval apartment apparently dated 1200AD. The building opened up onto the Palazzo Pitti Square.

I found this online. The arrow shows the doorway.

It really was a spectacular location and we were very privileged to be able to stay there. I can’t remember the price being exorbitant. Inside the stairs were old and quaint.

The main upstairs bedroom where Mike and I stayed had this (apparently original) fresco on the wall…it was said to date back to the 14C

Just altogether an amazing place right?!

Except!

It was dirty.

The toilet hadn’t been cleaned since the 14th Century.

The upstairs kitchen area opened onto a little metal deck overlooking an open courtyard. There pigeons flew in and out with great abundance. No one cleaned up after them and the metal deck seemed to be their most frequent port of call.

The place smelt musty and dank. Part of the ‘ambience’ of an ancient building perhaps.

But there was absolutely no excuse for the dirt.

It was pretty bad. While I loved the location, I couldn’t wait to leave the building. That was one of my first Airbnb experiences. The host kept contacting me afterwards asking for a review. He was pushy. No review was better than the one I would have given.  In hindsight, I should have been honest. The listing is still visible on Airbnb – it’s where I got some of the photos, but at the moment it’s closed. Would I stay there again? Yes, but not before insisting the host make sure the place is clean. Not too much to ask!

The second Airbnb I learned from was one we stayed in in Swellendam. Exactly 2 years ago we spent a night in a lovely little house quite close to Stacey and Adrian. It was spotlessly clean. The host messaged me to say where to park and that the key would be in the pot at the front door. That was it. I didn’t see the owner at all during the brief time we were there. I got the feeling she may have been looking at us through a slightly  parted curtain from the house next door, but not once did I see her, nor did she come and greet or even wave hello or good bye. She was strangely absent. Now I know people have things that prevent them from being seen, but I would have liked to have had her meet us even from a distance. I didn’t expect the host to be visiting every day, but meeting us just once would have been normal.

Two important lessons learned:

  • Guests want a clean place.
  • Guests want a friendly face.

We have worked hard to provide both!

Romans 8:28

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

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Venus in the Morning Sky

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Helga

Sunday

Today was the day…

I saw Venus in the morning sky. I’m not really a star gazer abut this morning when I woke up and looked out our balcony doors, there was this light in the eastern sky. It shone brightly. I wondered if it was an incoming plane but then realised it was way too high. A space station perhaps? I Googled it. Earthsky.org had the answer…

My cell phone doesn’t do it justice but there she is…

Through the telescope, it’s a crescent shape. So very clear.

It was another beautiful day. Not as hot as yesterday but warm and humid. Yesterday made history for Cape Town.. It was 22-Jan-22

We got to swim early. Some of the waves were large and well formed. They flowed instead of dumping and it was a pleasure to bob up and down instead of doing any serious swimming. Lots of people in the water, which was warm. Tomorrow, we may get to swim again but after tomorrow wind is forecast for the next week. A strong south-easter will whip through Cape Town, clearing fog and blowing the rain up country. It will also temper the hot summer temperatures.

We had a relaxing day. I even slept a bit during the day. We did a bit of walking this evening and had a nice dinner out.

1 Peter 1:2

God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and His spirt has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed Him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.

The best is yet to come  – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

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Hottest Day of the Year

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Helga

Saturday

Today was the day…

Temperature soared in the Western Cape. Kapteinskloof was 44C! It must have been one of the hottest places in the province & maybe even the country today. In Cape Town, it was 30+ but up on the mountainside we threw the doors and windows wide open and enjoyed the breeze which went a long way to cool the place down.

It was a busy morning for Mike and I. Guests left just after 10am and more arrived  this afternoon, so we set about cleaning. Then we walked three people through David’s unit, but I’m not sure if any of them will take it. One couple needed a washing machine. The other may be interested but for very short term and the third is the current occupant of the LL. After they all left, it was back to cleaning the cottage which we finally completed around 1pm.

The afternoon we rested! And the evening, we had a super dinner on the balcony.

It’s a very still and balmy evening. One of those rare days where the wind is not howling and it’s full on summer. Tomorrow is forecast to be cooler, but still windless. In the photos above, you can see the massive pods of seaweed heading for the beach. While the wind isn’t blowing, there will be a load of sea weed on the beach.

Psalm 8:4-5

What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You care for him? yet You have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

 

 

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David’s Place is Now Ship-Shape

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Helga

Friday

Today was the day…

Ruth came and cleaned David’s place – it’s now ship-shape. A prospective tenant arrives to view it tomorrow. If he doesn’t take it, an agent representing a vet from Durban comes on Wednesday.  It’s looking clean and sparkly. It’s not on Airbnb and it doesn’t have a name yet. If we rent it to a longer staying tenant, it may just take on their name. It’s no longer David’s place – so today’s clean was bitter sweet.

It’s really functional with a great view and ideal for a single person or couple. It hasn’t taken long to get some interest. If I don’t get someone soon, it will go up on Airbnb, hence the photos. I think there are 64 steps to the front door, so not for the faint-hearted. Parking is on the street or the kerb – whichever is available.

Tomorrow the cottage guests leave and three guys arrive on the back of motorbikes! They are spending tonight in Mossel Bay. We’ll make sure the braai is available for them!

The most frustrating thing this week is the Atos went in for a repair and the mechanic can’t get the part! So exasperating because Julian is here and now can only use his motorbike. So inconvenient. Anyway, we are hoping Mr Mechanic will be able to find the right part soon and the little car will be reassembled and back on the road. At the moment, it’s camping in Ocean View. These little things can be the most annoying.

Anyway, it’s the weekend and I’m looking forward to it.

Ephesians 1:11

Because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for He chose us in advance, and He makes everything work out according to His plan.

The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

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