Our Life

My body is still protesting against yesterday's unannounced runaway fire. My eyes are burning, my back is acing and I have a mysterious pain in my hand. We left Danie’s parents farm on Maclear yesterday morning to go to the church fete. The wind was really strong and Danie made the comment: “ I hope there are no fires today”  He just said it when he saw a very small and insignificant fire next to the road.  He immediately saw the danger in that small fire and we turned around to go and get some water to extinguish it. I decided to make my way back up the farm road to take our three children and their cousin to the fete.  As I was leaving the farm gate a guy came running down the hill waving his arms franticly and I presumed he wanted me to turn around. I have seen so many movies of people trapped between fires that I decided to see if I can’t get past it, because it was really small 5 min ago.  As I came round the bend the fire was upon me.  Danie phoned me a...

So what is next for us? We do have a calendar, but it just changes day by day. For now we are in Patensie in the Eastern Cape.  “Where?” I hear you ask. Well if you look on the map it is just to the left and a little North West of Port Elizabeth. We have been on the road now for over 4 months. 4 Months was my limit and now we are over it. We are still going but with huffs and puffs. My steam is running low and I need some new coal for this train. I don’t really feel like updating my blog right now and don’t really know what to say. We are waiting, waiting, waiting and more waiting!  Now what are we waiting for?  It seems like we are waiting for everything. We are waiting for: The Reserve Bank to give permission to start a Franchise in Macedonia We will then have to complete forms and wait for Macedonia to give the big OK for our business. Then our visa applications can finally start and then we have to wait for that. We are waiting to hear about a formal diag...