Thursday 16th June 2022
A month ago I left South Africa. It feels like years. I know the first two weeks of tooth hell stretched out to two years so that's probably why it feels so long ago that I left.
But today I got my National Insurance number details confirmed and my surname changed to match my passport. I have been off their system since 1988. It felt so weird talking about those dates from so long ago. My gap year as a then 21 year old and now my return gap year mid fifties. I also received my local bank card in the post through the postbox in the front door. A postal service that still functions. It is quite exciting.
We took a drive to the free museum at the Marina and afterwards walked around the moored yachts. It was a lovely sunny day again so after watching the lock gates open to let a boat in, we ate ice cream cones on a bench in the sun, as holiday makers should do.
The weather stayed fine for my first barbecue of the season. It's not a braai in England. I had yummy sausages and a burger patty and we had a good laugh while Angie tried to decipher all the simultaneous conversations that were happening at once. It was late enough to see the bats come out for their nocturnal meals and now I can hear some faraway seagull moaning at It's kids.
A great day.
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