Autumn in Africa

It's been a while since I posted anything, I see. A very busy few months which have seen us moving into a newly purchased house, and sending Lily off to the vastly overpriced pre-school on our estate. She is now 4 going on 28 and developing a nice line in looks to keep her old Dad in his place ...

The new house is a lot larger than our Berkshire home, and the renovators we hired kept asking us if our furniture was still coming from the UK. We blushingly admitted that what they saw was the sum total of what we own, less some antiques we stored, and we're still working on how to fill an extra 200 sq. metres of space we never had before.

We took the kids to a fantastic zoo around 90km north of Pretoria - called Mystic Monkeys it is the first one I've seen with decent sized cages for the simian cousins. Lily and Henry found the apes very amusing, but were far more impressed with the tiger and white lion cubs they encountered.

Otherwise all well - we're adjusting to our second year back in Africa. Hellish expensive now, Johannesburg, but we are keeping our heads just enough above water to allow the occasional smile.