So much to do, so little time

Sunday 15 December 2013.

My, my, how quickly the days have slipped by, almost unnoticed. That’s probably because we have started to panic at the realisation that the many tasks still to be done are starting to outweigh the time left in which to complete them. Cecil John Rhodes and Winston Churchill are just two of the many to whom the quote “So much to do, so little time” is ascribed. You can add me to that list now, with 9 days to go…

Sunday 15 December 2013 will most likely live in the memories of  many South Africans as the official State Funeral day of the late former president Nelson Mandela at Qunu in the Eastern Cape, which was broadcast to the nation.

Today was also the day on which we travelled to The Strand to the new home of Mike and Lizette, where they arranged an extended family braai, as a farewell to Jeanette and myself.

Here are some of the photos we took as a memento of this, our last visit to the Strand and of being physically in touch with so many of you. I will not pass comment on the photos, save to put names to faces for those readers who may have been out of the Western Cape picture for some time, and  do not recognise some of the changes. For some reason, I did not get any photos of the girls young ladies, who were around and about with their boyfriends.

The photos are in no particular sequence:

Dean

Bethany

Jené and Bethany

Yet another one of Bethany

Dean

Lizette

Ilze, Joan, Alta, Anna

Jeanette with Jéan

Alta, Lizette, Chandre, and Ilze

 
Ilze, Joan and Anna

Jéan and Di

Bethany with Jéan

Di and Jéan

Deon

Jéan and Mike

Di and Jéan

Roger with Rochell

Trevor

Roger

Jeanette with Trevor and Anna

Roger

Mike

Thanks so much to all of you for your love and good wishes. We appreciate your sincerity. And, most of all, thank you to Mike and Lizette for opening your home to all of us and providing such a going-away spread. Thank you, Mike, for doing the cooking over the braai, and thank you, Lizette, for the rest and the washing up!