R. I. P. Sony Cybershot

It is finally September. This month brings with it both good and bad, but mostly great things.

The tourists have fled the area in search of better things, e.g. their own lives, own homes, etc., but we welcome their presence in the form of dollars and large appetites coupled with a horrible disregard for self-catered condo's.

The best part is the weather, though. I feel as though the poor tourists actually got the worst end of the stick and we are left savouring paradise during the best months of the year when they are gone.

The humidity that drove most of us sane ones inside for a few months has now dissipated. Each day is really and truly beautiful and cool enough to roll all the windows in your car down, abandon the A/C and open that sunroof; let the wind fuss at your hair. Overall, it is a wonderful time.


The beaches have been abandoned. I went to the beach today not expecting to find parking, but I was proven wrong. The beach had perhaps ten parties on this fairly large beach.

However, we are being plagued by bugs. Love bugs.

You heard right.

Love bugs.

Detestable humping bugs that infiltrate in September - humping. They'll hump on your car window or on your towel or sommer on you. Lekker. And don't try and squash them because you will have hell to pay to get their guts and streaks off your car. Apparently when you drive into them you need to wash your car because they eat your paint. They are nothing short of a pest.

The best part, of course, is the rumour that no one can seem to deny or corroborate effectively is that these bugs were genetically engineered and an experiment gone wrong. The other rumour is that the creator is in prison serving a long sentence for plaguing humanity so much. Having someone to blame for all this just makes so much more sense.

Now, to get to the title - and some of you might be wondering why I have not illustrated this post - and now, this is not like the upgrade from children's books with pictures to adult books where you are required to use your imagination which some people still struggle with due to an overdose of spoon-feeding, i.e. television.

Sadly, our camera died a quiet and lonely death the other day after a long battle with lens focusing. But, as Larry so aptly puts it: "We got our money's worth out of it". Not many times that you can say that about anything these days. But he is right, because in his two week vacation in Cape Town two years ago he took over a thousand pictures - no lie. It is amazing.

So, now you have sort of an update on what is going on over here. I feel as though I have emerged from hibernation against the hot season. I can go outside again without fainting so hopefully you can watch this space as I go and gather more stories to entertain you with.

Till then...