Thursday 6 January 2022, Day 98 of Level 1, birthday of Alex von Ulmenstein and Mullerie Taljaard 🌹🌹
Corona Lockdown Gratitude 🙏
#grateful for a beautiful 27 C degree day, making Camps Bay very busy, with a very strong late afternoon South Easter, meaning it will be even warmer tomorrow; for a birthday call to my Alex, starting to plan his visit to Cape Town in 15 days ❤️; for preparing for my client meetings this afternoon; for a successful visit to the Civic Center, to renew my car license, but annoyed that one has to enter from the back of the building without any signage, and answer numerous questions just to be allowed in, for being able to jump the queue of persons who had waited for 90 minutes into the red Continue reading →

Friday 18 December 2020, Day 89 of Level 1, Day 268 of Lockdown 😷
The Sweet Service Award goes to The Lawns at The Roundhouse in Camps Bay, for its excellent service in looking after our table of about 15 on Wednesday, at a meeting and end-of-year- function for the Management Committee of the Camps Bay & Clifton Ratepayers Association on which I serve. We ordered our individual breakfasts, and when I told the waiter that I had to leave half an hour later, he offered to separate my order from that of the group, so that it could be speeded up in the kitchen. He was true to his word, I not having to wait very long, and neither did the rest of our group, their breakfasts arriving just as I had finished mine. I love Dilmah tea, and always regard it as a sign of the quality of the establishment, so I was impressed to see that this is their tea brand.
Friday 27 November 2020, Day 68 of Level 1, Day 247 of Lockdown 😷