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A bit busy...

We have had a couple of hard weeks this side, Luka keeps on getting sick despite the fact that she is a stay-at-home baby, work wise it was hectic, it is as if a million things were happening at the same time, take last week as an example. 

I was in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was spent in Illovo on course, Thursday and Friday was bliss, a client function at Sun City. 

This also marked the first time Gerhard and I ever spent a night away from Liam, bear in mind that he is three years old.  Poor Luka, abandoned at five months...well, they did not even know that we were gone!  Luka had my sister Tanja, her husband Jaco and Sekai there, Liam got a special surprise, a remote control car.  So all in all everyone was happy.

Best part, Gerhard and I realised that we should actually do this more often, it is a crying shame that it took us three long years to abandon Liam.

The function was amazing, world class, sadly, Darren Scott would have been the MC but a last minute decision was taken not to use him, probably the right thing to do, I am livid, barking mad at Darren, I love him.

Bobby van Jaarsveld was the main attraction, not bad, the real showstoppers were Buchanan and the silver flutes, corny I know but wow!  Check them out on you-tube, truly amazing men!

Gerhard played golf on Friday, Liam had grandparent day at school, a million things all happening at once.  Scary! 

So things are settling down again, will hopefully have more me time soon!

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