Just like home

Weather: fine and warm
Caption: This was part of a photo on the front page of the China Daily.

After a lazy start to our day we cycled to Carre Four to buy badmington rackets. Badmington is play here in the streets and we thought a great way to spend some time outdoors. We got some shuttlecocks as well - with real feathers nogal. It freaked me out a little, but there were no plastic ones, so it was feather shuttlecocks or nothing. Let's hope our tube of shuttlecocks don't come with built in bird flu :-). As we were unchaining our bikes to cycle home this gentleman showed up. I thought he was getting his bike, but no. He was our friendly Carre Four bike guard, complete with grimy armband to show that he's legit. 1 RMB and thank you for parking here. WTF? I thought we left car guards behind when we left sunny SA. But it would seem that entrepeneurial spirit transends continents.

I just burnt a batch of croissants. Bloody hell. Do you know what a fag it is to make croissants from scratch? It takes hours. The recipe says bake for 45 minutes at 230. So we went and played badmington for 30 mintues, I had the oven at 220 and still they were burnt to a near crisp. Clearly our magic box (as a local cook book refers to an oven) is quite potent and should be watched.

We're off to a Diana Kroll concert tonight. Tres exciting. She's never performed in SA and who knows when we'll get this opportunity again. We in row gazzillion and 9 and still the tickets were 300 RMB, each.

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to BRENDA, my sister-in-law! Hoop jy't 'n baie lekker dag!