Mike said he would renovate the house when he was retired. He has now been retired for more than 7 glorious months, but has only recently found enough time to start the grand renovation project. The back garden is looking pretty good and the guest room got a make-over. Today was the turn of the external woodwork.
When he had finished that window, it looked absolutely fabulous. I couldn’t believe the difference.
Slowly but surely the house will get its makeover.
Right now I am using my Android tablet to do this blog in preparation for using it when I am away next week. I don’t want to take my laptop with me, so Mike has figured out a way to use the tablet with a keyboard and mouse. It really works well and this has been a good test.
This morning, I took a break and we went out for breakfast which is number 45 of my 1000 thanks. It’s the little things in life that make for gratitude and happiness and sitting reading the paper eating a breakfast that I didn’t have to cook is one of them. 🙂
Life was a lot more difficult in 1797 when Lady Anne Barnard arrived in town. There were great hardships and widespread poverty. A lot of the people complained of the cost of living being far higher than London.
After she arrived she attended an assembly and asked the Rear Admiral Thomas Pringle, “How am I to like this place?”
His answer was unexpected,
“As to that Madam your ,uestion can only be answered by another, ….are you the best tempered Woman in the World, the most resolved to be pleased in spite of everything to vex….disgust….and inconvenience you. Are you patient….made up of Money, have you neither feeling nor compassion in you…if so….you may only hate the Cape moderately…”
That was Cape Town in 1797. How grateful I am that it has changed.
Regardless of difficult circumstances, the Bible has wise advice for all to heed:
Jeremiah 17:7-8
“But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. He will be like a tree planted by the water, that sends out its rrots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
It doesn’t say there will be no drought, but during it we need not worry. Trust.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Doing my blog on my tablet for some reason it excludes a cue, putting in a , so that’s  why the ,uote has a , and not a cue! 😀