So … granted this post will only be interesting to a few of my long-suffering friends, but I thought I’d write a “what I did on my holiday” post – in the Sub B / grade 2 style (with slightly fewer misspellings).
The dreaded family xmas turned out to be FANTASTIC. None of the things that I had imagined would happen did, and all the imagined tension was just that — imagined.
What a pleasure to reconnect with family, some of whom I hadnt seen in 13 years and to learn that we still get on like we always did.
I had a true “return to childhood” holiday – the Natal beach holiday where you never get out of your costume, stay active, run around with water pistols, and sing xmas carols like you mean it.
It was a total break from the grind – especially because I stuck my cell phone on silent and put it in a drawer for 90% of my time away.
Then I headed down to my beloved Eastern Cape to spend New Years in Kleinemonde. Here I continued the completely cut off from the world trend, surprised myself by swimming a mile in one go, and read three meaty novels. We also enjoyed an anti-Oxbraai evening of all things calm and cultured.
Kleinemonde pics are on my flickr photostream.
And now I’m back at work and it’s pissing with rain. Appropriate much?
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