Breakfast Apology

 

Well not to give away any personal details, somethings happened in all the celebrations yesterday while we were in Pretoria, well more like didn't happen, so to make it up to Nikita, Bradley organized breakfast on our deck. Okay more like brunch but the apology breakfast went down well and all the little campers are happy once again.

Bradkyle

 

Bradkyle, interesting combination of 2 names, Bradley and Klye. It was good to get Bradley to Connect Group finally after about a year of absenteeism from the Connect Family. Anyways we had a good evening of catchup at Connect.

Walking on Water

Bradley's birthday was yesterday and because we were too busy celebrating Jesus' birthday so we held the family get together today, Boxing Day or Family Day as it is now called. Everyone had fun, as can be seen by Rachael walking on water. 

A Day in the Life of Brad

I have not much to say of Bradley's daily life schedule. He wakes up about midday, has brunch, and starts playing XBox or watches Netflix on his phone, until late at night when he goes back to bed to sleep only to repeat the process the next day. This pattern is of course broken up with supper, bathroom and smoke breaks. And that is it. Does he even know that today is Monday?

Being the Tourist

They say while in Rome, do what the Romans do, so even though I grew up here, the family didn’t so while on holiday at the lower South Coast, why not do the tourist thing. This is us being the tourists.

First on our agenda was the famous Waffle House in Ramsgate for a yummy waffle breakfast. The morning was slightly nippy as the sun still had to warm up so it was hot Mocca to start while Matthew had tea, of course while we waited for our waffles.

A visit to Ramsgate Beach was squeezed in between the waffles and our next tourist stop, the Butterfly World as it was now starting to get warmer. The wind had picked up and the sea a little choppy so we didn't stay long before we were off again.

Now the Butterfly World was a little of a disappointment as it seemed a little run down. Maybe it is supposed to look like a grotto but the decor did not get a huge thumbs up from me. As for the butterflies, well there were lots and lots of Golden Piper butterflies everywhere but not a lot of other species. But for our grand daughter they were the thing to see. Along with the butterflies Rebekah was also enthralled with the tiny tortoises.

By now it was way past Rebekah’s bedtime, so Marco, Robynne and Rebekah headed back to our holiday apartment while Lynda, Bradley, Matthew, and I headed inland to the Oribi Gorge. I spent many times up here at Murchison, Paddock, Oribi Flats, and of course the two gorges. So acting as the tour guide I showed my charges the spectacular Oribi Gorge. But as usual I didn't pay too much attention to the fuel as being a tourist guide was taking a lot out of me and by now my guests were getting tired. But even though we were a little low on fuel we did managed to get back to the coast on a whiff of a oil rag.

Custom Couch Brad

I had to pop into Custom Couches today, to go over what they want me to help them with at this weekend’s Rand Show. Custom Couches have been going for about 4 year now and have outgrown the mini factory that they currently in. Wow they have come a long way from their humble beginnings working out of the family garage.

Here is Bradley working hard, following up on leads and surprise he is looking smart with his new haircut.

Bradley 21

Yesterday, Lynda’s youngest, Bradley turned 21 but because we were all doing big family things, we decided to rather have something this evening for Bradley. The rain cancelled the pool party but thankfully having a gas braai and half covered patio helped not dampen celebrations.

You should have seen Robynne and Lynda’s dance moves during Dance Central’s dance sequences.

Iconic Christmas

Family means a lot to me even though I am not one who enjoys too much family company but on Christmas Day family means the most to me especially big family gatherings. During today’s Christmas lunch at Marco and Robynne’s home, Robynne handed me her phone to take a photo of the family and this is the iconic photo taken.

From left to right are Marco, Shekinah, Kojak, John, Joshua, Bradley, Dael, Lynda, and Robynne all in different poses. Sadly Hilton, Matthew, Rebekah and I were out of the photo. Hopefully next year I will rectify that.

Hey Granddad, why did you leave me out?

So as for my family pictured above and those who are not, we wish you all a meaningful Christmas with much peace, joy and most of all, LOVE in abundance.

Ugly Gym

Well fancy that, coming across this sign advertising ugly gyms outside Clearwater Mall. So now if you are tired of being fat and ugly, just join this gym and you will be just plain ugly.

Welcome back to Johannesburg peoples, where we came get back to being just our tired ugly selves. I am not sure if this advertisement works for me, there are many beautiful people in Jozi, including the fat ones, me included. Maybe this is targeted at the few people who are ugly on the insides.

Heavy Metal Emo

Today was a day to head down to the Southern Suburbs of Johannesburg. At first we dropped off Bradley at the Glen Shopping Centre and off we went to chase Ingress portals in the deep south. Later we returned to the Glen where we met up with Bradley and Shalyn for a late afternoon lunch. As you can see by their hairstyles that emo is back in fashion but this time accessorised with heavy metal t-shirts.

Bad Hair Day

In South Africa, Eskom our only supplier of electricity does a bad job supplying this basic needs to South Africans and today no surprise there was no electricity at Bradley’s home so he came over to bath in hot water.

You should have seen my surprise to see Duckface come along with his nifty mini hair straightener. Uhmmm I wonder if it could work in my beard. With this little hot device I could start looking like Rasputin, the lover of the Russian Queen, or was that a mad monk.

Why guys shouldn’t do Duckfaces?

It is pretty obvious from Bradley’s photo above that guys, no anyone, doing duckfaces are really not a good look. It never was unless you are a duck that is.

For the record duckfaces is when someone makes a face like they are kissing the invisible man or in this case woman. No wonder Minky our cat is getting out of there.

Lynda's Day

Mother's Day is a day set aside to celebrate mothers all over the world. After phoning my mommy, Lynda and I met her children for breakfast at Picolinos in Fourways.

Lynda really enjoyed spending time with Robynne, Dael, and Bradley as it is becoming increasing difficult to get them all together in one place for a meal.

Mothers are like buttons. They hold everything together. Happy Mother's Day

Dinner for Seven

Dael is up from Durban so it was a perfect opportunity to get all of the van Rooyens in one photograph. So dinner was arranged with all and they arrived in mass along with Marco and Tyrone. Here is Bradley, Robynne, Lynda and Dael getting ready to say cheese, oops my bad took the photo early.