Catching up

So The Mother has been visiting. She arrived on the 19th and leaves next Monday.

I haven't been online much until this morning and have been trying to catch up on all that has been happening on the interwebz since the 19th....damn but people can talk a lot! :)

While wading through all these interesting events, my mail has been slowly downloading in the background. Slllooooooowwwwwwlllllyyyyyyyy.

When I checked why, there were 1meg, 3meg size mails coming from someone I know who likes to send endless streams of crap to every single person she knows who has an email address. I regret ever giving her mine. Maybe I should put her on my junkmail or banned address list.

Oh and she has a full time job, with internet access. One can only silently eat spaghetti in the hope that her boss revokes her access, soon.

This is for Fuku....

Someone commented on my post about what's nice about being a South African on the internet and requested mud huts....so I googled mud hut images because believe it or not, I don't really live in a mud hut...

So....Jen...here's some for you! :)

From this blog about life in a black rural town...now how about that view? That's off the Transkei coast.

From a website about architecture...this one and many more depicting adobe architecture in the Sahal region of Africa...



See, they aren't all round and have straw roofs!

And this one, in the Lesotho highlands, taken from this photoblog that has awesome photos!

So while looking through the images of mud huts, I came across a site called Mud Huts, this is their logo, cute isn't it?

Mud Huts - a travel site for all things African, they will even arrange your honeymoon safari in the wilds of Africa!

The best thing about being a South African on the internet...

...is that I get a chance to laugh at stereotypes in a way that not many will appreciate...
...is whenever someone asks me if we live in mud huts...
...is when someone thinks it's ok to leave a game viewing vehicle in the middle of the Kruger and go pet a game park lion... (Yes, someone actually asked me if animals in game parks are wild.)
...is when someone asks me if I know So-and-so that they met back in '95 when they came on a sightseeing trip, he's from Kenya...
...is when jaws drop because I'm white...but I'm from Africa, I should be black...
...is when someone asks me if I can speak English...and the conversation is already 3 pages long...
...is when someone asks if we have computers in South Africa...and I am posting on a message board with this person...
...is when someone asks where I live and I say Pretoria, South Africa...and they ask if that is somewhere in Asia...

Caturday

Gosh I haven't done this one in forever!

Have a good Friday and enjoy the lolcats overload!

And a bonus.....



And finally, introducing family member Flloyd....TGU's dog.

Recaption him!

Tags

I've recently been fooling around with my blog, changing things here and there. Blogger didn't have a nice blog template so I went to Shabby Blogs and found the beach scene.

I had a look around on other people's blogs to see what they have done. Some of them are so way over the top with so many whistles and bells but one gadget that caught my eye was the tag cloud. I like it. So for the last few days I've been attempting at putting one on my blog.

You don't see it? It's there! Really! What? Still not? Not possible! I copied and pasted the right code dammit!

Until one of my Aussie friends commented about having to actually tag words in your post.....

(I forgot to tag words in posts though! Brain fart moment!)

Silkworms

I'm not squeamish but these little fuckers freak me out. They're pale and squishy and just bloody gross!

J came home last week with a bowl with about 8 or so. I can live with that. Then the next day he came home with 10 more. Cool I can live with that too. Except...little dude never thought to look at the mulberry tree and see if it had any leaves for the poor starving squishies!

The last week and a few days I have been driving around stealing leaves off of other people's trees. Yes the things we do for our children.

My tree has loads of tiny little leaves now so I will be putting my burglary days behind me soon...I did spot a tree a couple of houses down that no one knows of though...the leaves are GINORMOUS!....

If you happen to spot someone stealing leaves off your mulberry tree...I've got Lindt chocolate to trade!

So.....Caster has male parts

Which is a pity because she has some great athletic potential further down her career. What she will do now is anyone's guess as I am assuming that any other athlete out there will complain bitterly if she ever competes again internationally.

This whole story though has left a bitter taste in my mouth. It shows the utter disregard for gender and gender issues that this current government has, that they are naive about issues that are not clear cut and a case of pull your pants down to prove your sex. It also shows a severe lack of understanding on the part of ASA in how to handle international incidents.

And shame on the media for breaking this story before she was ever told of her test results. Disgusting.