Hiya mate, hope ur well and not to sunburnt!!! nothing much has changed here - umpa lumpa is still the same...... loud, annoying and very orange!!! its still quiet on the boyfriend front for her aswell, personnaly i think all the women in walsall have locked their boyfriends away so she cant pass her number onto them!!!!
Well must get back to work, hope ur both havin a fab time and hopefully speak to u soon
Luv
Sarah
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Adeboy!
OMG! My lil tiddliwinks! Not only have you made it to the wonderful, the gleaming, the 'slightly warmer than us' South Africa, but I am astonished to find you made it passed the duty free at Heathrow. Well I'm all gud, a little cold to say the least ... you're getting sunburn, we're getting frost bite ( & I'l leave it to your imagination as to where my frost bite has hit the most) (It's like one huge icicle!) hehe ... I'm loving the pix - especially the one of "Livin life to the edge" where all you can see are youre lil size fives dangling off the edge of the cliff! Yes, what's particularly noticeable are the number of plasters caked all over your size fives ... them jesus sandals not giving you the full comfort you had come to expect from Clarks' "Mountaineering Collection"? That'l teach you to laugh at me when I shop at Bacons.
Ferret (aka lou) I clocked your ma and pa in selfridges the other day. Yes, they were taking advantage of our "all new" "Change your entire idendity" promotion. That, and they were in possesion of a dozen or more suitcases. That's all I'm saying.
Piggy (aka jo) I'm slightly concerned to say that I don't think your folks have noticed you've even gone. Might be wise to pop a postcard in the post or something.
Anyhoo my happy campers, luv n hugs to u both (obviously) (don't wanna cause any friction btwn the two of u at this early stage!)
Bye!! xx
Gingerus Maximus
So, South Africa....A nation that has seen as many wars as it has years of existence....that has seen the likes of Britain, The Netherlands and Germany but to name a few go at it hammer and tongue to against each other and the local 'massifs' of Boers, Xhosa's and Zulus to colonise this historic and strategically important land(city in particular!) of opportunity. A land which today bears the scars left behind from those who occupied her, from those battles that divided her, and from the domestic issues that isolated her....but from which a rich and unique vein of culture has risen to form the modern Apartheid-free land we have come to associate with the Springbok....
Cape Town...historic Capital City....the epitome of the country's struggles....
and you decide to climb some bloomin mountain that was named after a four legged piece of furniture on which I eat me fishfingers n chips....!
Nice.;>)
Glad to see you're burnin off them calories!!
x x
Sue
Jo glad to hear youve arrived and things sound good!!! I like to see you've found priorities already marmite!!! Hostel to yourself make the most of this!! I promise you will get more use to finding things in your rucksack as you go on or fed up so you chuck half of it out. I went for option 2!!!! Hope you enjoyed your first adventure and soon some pics willl be up on this site!!! Sun burnt already what you like - its bloody freezing here!!! No major news keep you posted though!!
All missing you here keep in touch
Sue
Jules
Marmite and mozzy nets plus messages from ginger people, sounds more like button moon!! Well then kids enjoy ur swim and bike ride 2row (Fri) and get some photos up. Web cam gota be best invention since...... Jo.... oh and the fly swatter (te he lou). Message for the whole of the African nation....Watch out for monkey feet and for girls with funny coloured hair who snore!! Right pair of weirdo's apparently. One's got a back-pack bigger than she is...the other's carryin enuf to dress a whole shanty town!! U'll see them comin...or smell em...wiv marmite breath. Love em or hate em the BT girls have arrived. Take care, luv ya (no not u LT-lol) xx
Gingerus Maximus
Thought I'd be the first to start off the abuse but as it may well be your first message, I'll refrain just this once...
Instead I shall part with two pieces of ginger wisdom (people die on pilgrimages in pursuit of such a blessing)...
1. ALWAYS REMEMBER: THERE ARE NO GINGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA!!
THOU SHALT BE DEPRESSED.....
There is, however, one who carries a ginger hair....a lesser king than I, his kind is known as the 'lion' and to extract said ginger hair, one must put ones head trustingly within its jaws as one plucks the little beast from its follicle as the other takes the photo....
If one retrieves said hair (follicle is a bonus point if also retrieved) then you are half way there...READ ON....
2. When you run out of water on your second day(and YOU WILL!), one must rather rapidly gather a hefty bundle of twigs, and insert them with a clockwise motion into ones bottom (such that at least 40cm are left protruding)....one must strip to the bare essentials, build a fire, (in no particular order of course), rub mud over ones body, and then begin a 30 minute cossack dancing routine in an anti-clockwise direction around the fire whilst holding an empty mug...(VERY important!) whilst all the time chanting 'ummmm mekam eec ryal ot ummmm' repeatedly. Then as if by magic, water shalt appear, at first at a trickle, soon swelling into a flood....cascading down either side of ones nose...A MIRACLE indeed....only drawback is that one will not sit down again for some time....a SMALL price to pay for survival.....
SO, there you have it, the two CORE rules of survival in rural Africa........
Only if you abide by the ginger wisdom you have been blessed to receive will your trip be a success....
