This and that from USA

Well time is flying and our time here with Andre and Jenelle is into its last month. Can't believe that on Thursday it will be Christmas our first, and probably the only one, we will have with our USA family. The shops are very quiet the result of the recession I suppose. Went into Dillards, a very upmarket shop, the other day at Boynton Beach Mall and I think Maureen and I were the only people walking around Sad sad sad. Such lovely things on display but no-one buying even Maureen is slowing down now. Andre had taken us to the Mall at 10.45am and Shelley picked us up at 4pm. Boy have I learnt to use my legs since not having the convenience of my faithful Monza. Of course there are all the sales now on and up to 75% off is promised at some stores. I don't think I have written on my blog since our visit to Las Vegas. Andre and Jenelle took us to the airport on the 8 Dec and got us booked in before returning home. The flight took 2 1/2 hours to Atlanta where we waited until others boarded and then on to Las Vegas. We had to change our watches once again to 3 hours behind Florida so we arrived in LV at 11pm. Flying over what is the Nevada Desert you see the lights of Vegas in the distance. What a sight!!! Caught a shuttle to the Harras Hotel which is like a Holiday Inn but more flambouant. In the airport there are slot machines so you could actually spend you money right there and just get back on the plane to return home. The room was great but a big disappointment no coffee machine in it. We are so used to having one that it really was a loss. The next day we got a map from reception and started out at 9.30am. We WALKED until nearly 5pm. Yes we WALKED. Maureen and I are managing quite well but Gerrit's back was troubling him. I did offer to get him a wheelchair but you can imagine his answer ?#!!**. So he had to soldier on. We went from one casino to the other where he tried his luck in each one But needless to say we are stilll on a budget. The casino buildings are amazing each one has a theme which is carried through from outside to inside. Tjhe vibe is ongoing and alive with visitors. Vegas has a permanent residency of about 1 million and an annual influx of 35 million visitors. Our hotel was full of real cowboys all visiting the 50th National Rodeo. To Gerrit's disgust the sit and eat with their ten gallon hats on!!! I think its cute and if they weren't so expensive I would have bought one. I did however borrow one from a cowgirl and had my photo taken with two genuine cowboys in the bar in Paris. We had a great time that day. The next we decided to buy an all day monorail ticket which travels, without a driver, way above all the hotels and stops along the way. At each station you can see which casinos are at that stop so once again we walked. At the one stop we walked from Sahara to Statosphere where we took the elevator to level 1814 ft above the ground!!! I could not stand near the edge of the indoor observation floor vertigo took over but Maureen and Gerrit had a great time getting a birdseye view of Vegas. By the time we got back to the Harras we were tired and hungry. Oh did I mention the mornings and evenings were VER>Y cold as it is in the desert. In fact the week after we were there they had a snowfall. Actually I'm sorry we missed that. That evening on arrival we went to our room and at about 8pm went down and had a lovely meal at the Italian Restaurant. Next day the shuttle took us back to the airport and it was back to Fort Lauderdale where we arrived late - at nearly 12pm. Andre and Jenelle were waiting to fetch us. What a blessing they are to us. The next day I truly felt the time change and all 3 of us just relaxed. That was Thursday and on Friday after sleeping late we went to babysit Emma while Shelley went to a ladies lunch at the church. She was gone 4 hours and during this time Emma was our entertainment and a real little llivewire she is. I took her up for a nap but needless to say after an hour of listening to her on the intercom I felt I should fetch her out. Well....... what a sight welcomed me to say nothing of the smell! She had the biggest pooh I have seen in a long time in her diaper (nappy) and I honestly was at a loss. What the h...l to do with it. I managed to remove the parcel and then cleaned her as much as possible and then.. I didn't know how to put on a clean diaper. But with help from Maureen we got one on. I must say when I put her down to walk she seemed to have a lot more bottom than before. Heavens I will have to get this sorted out if I am ever to babysit again. I'm so glad Nana Margie is now in charge of babysitting. I'm off the hook. Jenelle is very uncomfortable and we are hoping the time now goes quickly so that Baby A can arrive. Who can tell when she will be ready to face us all? Well dear bloggers we are now slowing down but today Sunday we went to church with Shelley and Vaughan and Emma. Margie, Mareen and I thoroughly enjoyed the family service in a beautifully decorated church where the children sang Happy Birthday to Jesus. People dressed in red and green and there was a communal breakfast to start the service. It was truly great and has made the begining of this Christmas week very special. On Wednesday we are going with them again to a candlelight carol service. It is the shortest hours of daylight today and the official start of USA winter. But the weather here is still lovely and very hot in the sun. It is dark at 5.30pm so all the lights in the various homes are lit. Lovely, lovely. Have seen Susan' maginificent photos of Cape Town and it made me feel quite homesick. So now dear Bloggers, to each and everyone of you wherever you may be may you all have a Blessed Christmas and may the Peace and Goodwill of this wonderful time remain with you and alll you love through 2009. With lots of love from 'Nor, Gerrit and Maureen.

Anybody out there?

Hi bloggers
One of the greatest advantages in the USA for the three of us is that internet is readily available each and every day we are here. First thing in the morning we login and check our email and next go to my blog to see if anyone has contacted us. Are we homesick for friendly, warm SA and especially our loved ones and friends in Edgemead and environs? I suppose unwittingly this is just what it is although perfectly are ease here with Andre and Jenelle. We don't want to lose contact with all that is going on at home. It is such a disappointment to find nothing new on either of the above but maybe everyone back home is busy with their everyday lives. We are the ones with lots of time on our hands in between sightseeing and looking wide eyed at the decorations that are now apearing all over the suburbs for Christmas and Channukha(?) Some of the blogs I read are old and quite upsetting in a way for many of the bloggers that are not in my circle of everyday friends are sad or confused one way or another. What the majority of them have that I no longer have is YOUTH. Lordy girls you are beautiful, worthy and an asset to any friendship circle and you have a lifetime still to enjoy. Yes I said enjoy - each and every day is filled with blessings sometimes so smalll they are overlooked. I love and enjoy reading what you do and the things that fill your lives. I realise how blessed you are to be living in this day and age when women are equal in everyway to men. But you seem to forget all these things about yourselves. It took me quite a time to reach this place in my life and i look back now with a few regrets but none that I will end my life with. That's the best do all you want enjoy every experience and never have regrets. Love life and fill it with joy and laughter because you are worthy of happiness and I look forward to reading that you are now walking on the sunny side of the street again. Love you all

THANKSGIVING ETC

Hi blogger friends
This week we have had a baby party for Jenelle and Andre. Not the usual hen get together to drink, share baby stories and drink some more while unpacking gifts but with men present as well to do the same things. Sue and Shelley two of A and J friends gave the party for many of the workmates of the soon to be parents and a really good job was done by them. We had lots of fun, plenty of laughter and they got a wonderful array of gifts of Baby "A". Now preparations are underway for Thanksgiving. We have just seen Pres. Bush give a presidential pardon to two turkeys names Pumpkin and Pecan and they will therefore not end up as someones dinner. We will be going to Shelley and Vaughans home to celebrate the occasion and Jenelle has been in overdrive buying bits and pieces and cooking pumpkin cheesecake which is great and pumpkin pie. She is also going to cook the turkey so we are all looking forward to a great dinner. I have been asked to make mashed potato and I will do it the oldfashioned way and not "just add water" as is the norm here. So dear friends in the way of tomorrow I give thanks for all of you who take the trouble to read my blog and who accept me for who I am. God bless you all.l

Back again

Hi bloggers near and far
Haven't been here for a while because of various reasons. Still loving being here with Andre and Jenelle and have settled in just like Americans. I'm getting used to this convenient way of living "just add water" as Jenelle says but strange to say I miss the good old SA way of cooking. Not that it is my favourite pastime but somehow you can do that with love. Opening packets, tins, etc just doesn't have the same satisfaction as peeling the vegs and humming a favourite tune. Yes I still do that and so far no-one has been irritated. We are enjoyed the "winter" weather and I might even come home with a tan. That must tell you just how great the weather has been. Of course, in USA, where so many LARGE people stay I have been wearing, in public, sleeveless tops and letting everything just hang out, well not literally but for me it feels like it. Anyway. went on an airboat ride down in the Everglades and thoroughly enjoyed it. Saw enourmous alligators, in pens thank goodness and ate an Indian dog. No no no just a fat frankfurther in a bread blanket. On Friday last week, I think it was Friday, we sat on the beach at Delray with many other folk and watched the latest shuttle Endeav our take off. What a sight it was amazing could see the rockets fall off and the shuttle get smaller and smaller as it started it journey to the space station. Brave people those astornauts. On Sunday we went to Kennedy Space Centre and went on a tour of the place. It is gigantic and we travelled by bus from one section to the next. It is only when you have the components in sight and hear the amount of trouble it takes to make each launch safe that you realise the USA takes great care of every little item. Jenelle is great and keeps up with us although she is so close to launch time herself. We have a lovely time with Shelley and Emma as Shell is giving us a lot of time driving us to the malls. She is also grateful for the company as Vaughan works every day and she misses Margie who will be in San Diego until 15 Dec when we will all be here in Florida. Looking forward to that. Until next time God bless love you allo

I have a problem

I hate using the blog site because I always lose my way. I can't find caroline's blogspot and I really want to hear how things are going with her her pregnancy. It's quite strange that none of my links come up as they did at home. How I wish Caroline or Craig were closer so that I could pick their computer brains. Susan please let me have your email address as I write more on that than on blog. My address is eleanor.lagrange@gmail.com I hope you get this message. The time difference now is we in USA are 7 hours behind you. Crazxy but true. Tell your mom I have not washed my hair for 14 days now and it still, to me, looks quite good. Often think of you all in Cape Town but am having wonderful time. Going to a braai with friends of Andres tonight he is a chef at Boca and a Bergvliet chap. Love to all

Hi it's me again

Things still great here in Delray Beach. Have been around quite a lot over the weekend. On Satruday we went with Jenelle, Shelley, Emma, Maureen and me to a great big mall called Sawgrass about 45 minutes away from home. What a place. It was so big that we didn't have time to see it all. The baby goods are amazing and of course I have to hold myself back. We get real value for a $ as long as you don't convert all the time, and then I would't buy anything. Tonight I made tomato bredie and everyone seems to have enjoyed it sitting out on the balcony on a lovely balmy evening. Gerrit went with a friend of Andre's from South Africa, Clint and his Thai wife, we call her sushi. He was away the whole day and will talk for a month when he comes home about the boats he has seen. Last night we went to the Waterfront at Boynton Beach at ate terrific seafood at a place called The 2 Georges (both deceased) What a wonderful evening, once again with friends of Andre and Jenelle. They really have a lovely circle of friends. Tomorrow we are going to have a braai with another friend and his wife. He is a chef at Boca. We are all well and really enjoying every minute of being with our children. Lots of love to you all.

America the Great

Hi SA bloggers
Hope you are all well. We are settling in now at Delray Beach after a very hectic 10 days since leaving home. Meeting Andre, Shelley Vaughan and little Emma at Fort Lauderdale was a real highlight for us all. Poor Margie was quite overcome and cried like a baby while hugging Shells and Emma shouting Nana. Great stuff. The flight was not at all bad in fact I was quite relaxed by the time we landed. Delta was great, lovely attendants. Well, I'm sure you can get a lot of news from our family but to cut a very long story short..... as if I can. The first night at the apartment we met the crowd from the Boca - great every single one - all very excited to at last meet us and Margie and family we had a braai and a lot to drink. I fell into bed quite exhausted I mean I had been active one way or another for 28 hours!!!!! The area where our family stays is lovely - a gated complex with plenty of greenery and walkways. Everyone takes their dogs out on leads for walks and there a poop stops with special poop packets and a bin. Very good idea. In fact Maureen is going to take the idea back to Oasis to see if they can use it. Then on Thursday we travelled up to Savannah to Jenelles parents. Andre, Jenelle, Gerrit and Mo travelled in one car and I went with Jenelles youngest brother Jamie. What a nice young chap very informative and knowledgeable about the areas we travelled through. Jenni, Jenelles mom, is a very lively person who loves to have everyone and everything organised. She is apparently very well known in the USA for her knowledge of midwifery and runs the womens section of a large hospital in Savannah. Then on to the rehearsal day, a torrential downpour which lasted all and therefor washed out the organised dinner which was going to be held in the lovely back garden of the Lash home well that was just one thing that she could not guarantee. So..... off we went dressed in our rehearsal finery but with me running bare footed becausde I kept slipping out of my posh gold sandals. Very nice church, complicated rehearsal but the wedding party seemed to remember everything on the day. Back to the house, met a fair amount of relatives from both sides Jennis mom and two sisters, one brother in law nephew and niece (flowergirl) Keiths mom 2 brothers brother in law sister etc etc a very loud and lively lot. We were all issued with safari hats but because of rain we could not do the scavenger hut. Oh by the way Maureen and I were told in the morning that we would be cooking for this lot. PANIC but the Taylor's came into their own, we managed to make bobotie and what should have been yellow rice that turned out like putu pap and everyone thought was great - wanted the recipe. - then we made for the first time, thank goodness I had the recipe with me Desmond Tutu's Tutu chicken. Anoither success. Next day the wedding great was rushed to the beauty salon - enormous place - to have our hair done. Cost $27 - Elspeth, my looked just like it does when you do it. Great cut Pal. Wedding was at 2pm Jenni running around like a flea in a frenzy getting us all up to schedule. My son looked so handsome standing at the altar waiting for Jenelle and I was already crying just looking at Andre. Jenni and I went up during the service to light the two family candles - very emotional stuff. After the ceremony we were taken in trolley buses for a 1 1/2 hour trip around the historical area of Savannah which is truly lovely. Saw the garden from Midnight in the garden of good and evil and also the bench that Forest Gump sat on. The reception was at the de Soto Hilton Hotel on the top floor where we had a great view of the whole of the city. Food was good, bad a bit hectic - but whadahell! I had a great time dancing with all and sundry and into the evening was INVITED to make a speech. Apparently I made a few bloopers but the SA crowd loved it. Next day we chilled the bridegroom came to fetch us about midday to return to Lash house where we all at left overs. THAT'S ALL FOR NOW FOLKS God bless

Here at last

The day arrived at last, all the packing, sorting, unpacking has at last been completed. Just waiting for take off. Heiko has moved in and we know he will look after everthing for us. Poor guy has been left with a lot of instructions on payments, gardenservices and Sheila. Auntie Joan was in hospital for tests when we left so Peter, Sandra, Caroline, Craig and darling Amy did a drop and go for us at the airport. They were very disappointed about not staying butt now looking back it was a good thing as I think we were all feeling a bit down about the long separation. Heiko stayed but we didn't go back to the eating places as we just wanted to book in, and sort ourselves out. Why is that we very ordinary citizens get jittery, we haven't done anything wrong so we should feel very confident - people in uniforms at airports just bring all our nerves into play,. We met up Margie and on the plane she sat behind Gerrit and me with Maureen. Heiko SMS Andre once we were up in the sky to let him know we were on our way. Well here I am 35000ft above ground travelling at over 900km/hr and yet I'm very calm of course as we have only been travelling for about an hour..... just 8 more hours to Dakar. So far, so good. Gerrit is in newspapar mode so I'll sit and meditate.... no rather pray.
Dinner was good, I had chicken something like Spanish chicken As we are sitting on the wing I suppose you could call it chicken on the wing. You know like they have Beef on the Hoof. At Dakar we sat for nearly two hours while security check was made we must have looked very clean and germfree because no spraying of insecticides took place. Once again the take off.... nerves to the fore!! Now for JFK New York - I slept thanks to a few pills BUT I did walk a really steady flight - no problems - maybe I'll get used to this form of travel after all. At JFK all went smoothly no opening of luggage, nice immigration man and customs guy - are we lucky or what? We were called over the public address system because we had been sent to the wrong gate - not 1 but number 8. Let me tell you JFK is bigger than Cape Town and we had to run from almost one end to the other. Gerrit moaned all the time and I was letting off pops like a jetski. My ankle were like I had elephantitis and wrapped in special white stockings looked like I was the mummy. Oh well as well that ends well. Getting on board to the stares of all the other passengers was quite something and I tried very hard to give them my best SA smile. Another smaller Delta plane and less people but a wonderfully friendly crew. The flight took just about 3 hrs and then we circled over Florida. Wow but it is beautiful .... wonderful housing estates all around waterways green, green grass toooooo beaut. And then Andre, Shelley Vaughan and Emma to meet us - tears flowed mixed with hysterical laughter we could not believe it. At last we are with our kids. Lovely drive home in Sues car because it is bigger than Andres or Jenelles and out onto Route 95. About 30 minutes later we arrived at Boca West and Andre took us on a drive around the resort. I cannot describe to you all just how wonderful it is It is enormous, bigger than Edgemead and Milnerton together - different almost suburbs within a walled area. Five golf courses, tropical trees and flowers. Beautiful houses in different designs and all with water features etc. I will have to try very hard to take a lot of pics so you will at last get some idea of where Andre has spent the last five years. Have I said before how proud we are of him and all he and Jenelle have achieved? We are.... they have a lovely home - sparsely furnished but with enough to be very comfortable. I seem to have gone on quite a bit and hope to continue at a later time to tell you about the braai we had with their friends on Tuesday night. In the meantime love you and many thanks for the good wishes, gifts and prayers that sent us on our way.

Packing, Unpacking

Will we never learn .... Packing is a nightmare and I seem to be in the middle of one. I really thought that after having travelled to the UK a few times I knew exactly what I needed to take to wear. In 1970 I lived for two weeks camping in Scandinavia out a small cabin size suitcase. Never thought that I was taking too little and everyday I seemed to look decent - well we all looked more or less the same so it really didn't matter. But now all this time later I have packed everything I thought I needed for a three months stay in the USA and today I unpacked. Once again I have taken too many clothes. After all they do have washing machines, tumble driers and every other appliance to keep myself looking good. Whatever I take they haven't seen before so why is it so hard to pack down? The humming is getting faster, my nerves are in the tips of my fingers and the wine is definitely going down faster. We have a lot of gifts to take for our baby and also for Andre and Jenelle but I think I will have to leave the Vuvuzela behind unless one of my companions agrees to pack it in. What possessed me to buy one anyway, Andre does not like local soccer or its fans so...... By this time tomorrow I will be throwing out more clothes and in the USA will find I just haven't enough to wear. This is a puzzlement as Pooh would say.

It's almost time

After all the months of saving, planning and anticipation we are in the last few days of getting ready to fly to the USA. I'm excited and yet apprehensive about the long flight. I don't know if we are going back in time or forward but whatever way it is the end will be in Fort Lauderdale Florida and our son will be waiting for us ... what joy. The pile on the spare room bed has decreased as I painstakingly put everything into see through bags so that the customs can see what we are taking into their country. What clothes to take is always a problem but when you sit down and think about it rationally you realise that you don't need vast amounts. But do we ever learn. So..... I will take what I think is necessary and just make do. Lots of things need to be attended to things to pay etc Christmas cards to address etc etc I appear to have given up cooking on a regular basis, thank goodness for an understanding husband who is always ready to cook himself waterblommetjie or green bean stews or chop, potato and onion. Well it is his time anyway I have struggled with daily menus for close of 37 years and I hate cooking so I don't think I have done too badly. You see I am quite happy with scrambled egg on toast or baked beans but he being a boer likes vleis, rys en aartappels. I will be helping Andre and Jenelle with the cooking but know it always seems more exciting in someone elses kitchen. Enough of my thoughts for today there's a pile of packing still to be done and my hair color needs refreshing so I will be off to my personal hairdresser soon. Cheers until next time.

Sruprise, Surprise

Yesterday, I tuned into Oprahs (is the thingy in the right place? sister?) programme and it was what I wish I could attend. Her Favourite Things programme - everyone gets things that open shut and make you more beautiful at not cost whatsoever - just scream as loud as you can and the gifts are yours,. Of course I was a bit envious but then I also had a surprise - it was my last Thursday at the Valkenberg Estate Welcome Club where I volunteer and do craft things with patients who have phsychiatric problems. I took along chicken to braai as a farewell lunch and was very upset to hear that "my" craft room was being painted. However, after close on a hour I was at last let in. There were the phsychology students who had been with us for a while, all "my children" the director of Comcare the governing body of the Welcome Club and a grand party with balloons, cakes, cold drinks all that was necessary for a surprise. Oprah could not have beaten the feeling this gave me as I entered to clapping and cheering. What a wonderful moring it turned out to be. Words were read out that one of the patients had written just for me, read by one on the patients I had come to love. I had come to love them all, uninvited they have crept into my heart filled the space left by Andres going to the USA. Sure they have problems, but don't we all? They are people with wonderful personalities just hidden behind a medical condition. They gave me flowers, one member sang a song "I did it my way" which had me bawling knowing I was leaving them behind for three months. Their greatest worry - would I be coming back? It made me think - I'd love to attend one of Oprah give away days - but I realise that not one of her gifts would compare with what I received at my surprise party. I will miss them just as much as they will miss me and I will be glad to be back in that warm, loving place on my return.

It's a pile-up

No not the kind that many of you might have experienced on Monday morning while trying to get to your place of work, I'm referring to the pile of goodies mounting daily on the bed in my spare room. I am overwhelmed by the loving that has been pouring into my life through kind words, gifts for Andre and Jenelle's wedding, the arrival of "our" baby and farewell wishes. If only I could bottle all the love that will be winging it's way to the USA I could travel a lot lighter. I was hoping to just have one manageable suitcase, well within the allowable size, but it seems that is not to be. But, I'm not complaining I feel so blessed that so many people will be thinking of the three of us as we travel back in time to Florida USA. But there are a few regrets as well but I will not dwell on those just yet as my bladder is close to the back of my eyes, as my Dad always said, so will think on those things much later, if at all. Time sure is flying now and another day has been ticked off my calendar. Where did the first days of October go... but more importantly at this time where the hell has the stock market gone. Haywire, but Lord Why now???

NEARLY TIME

Firstly - seven comments!!!! I'm so thrilled - are people really interested in my ordinary life which will soon become so exciting I will hardly be able to contain myself. Of course, that's nothing unusual as many of you know. I am inclined to be over the top, in your face and all the other things that tell you just the kind of person I am. So often I promise myself that I will try to be a nearly 70 year old woman but they who do don't have half the fun I do. Some, but very few will ask, "Why the hums of Nor" but then again so many of you know exactly why. For those who don't one of our family's favourite characters namely Pooh the bear with little brain often composed hums which obviously kept him calm and lovable. I hum, musically that is, and it keeps me calm, lovable well that's debatable , it depends on who is hearing. Several members of my close family find it most annoying and hard as I try to keep on their right side I cannot resist the urge to hum. Only 18 more sleeps and I dare to go where no sensible nearly 70 year old should go - into that large airborne tin can with a load of strangers winging my way to the USA. My humming has become more frenatic and louder so to all who come close be warned. I have a few regrets about going for so long - three months - I will miss the traditional Christmas and New Year celebrations with my loving family and friends, leave behind my "children" at the Welcome Club who tell me they will cry every day I'm away, the older than me folks at the church whom I love dearly and last but not least little Amy, who will grow up so much during that time. I hope I have made enough impression on her for her to remember her loud great aunt when we return. Oh, and not forgetting what will the residents of 7nde Laan do in the time I am away? Oh well enough to catch up with them after all the Bold and the Beautiful is still going strong after many of their fans have moved onto higher places. Gee, this blogging is quite easy going once you get the hang of it. Love you all God bless

Here I am again

Well, with the help from my beloved niece I think I have got the hang of this blog thingy. What to say - such a lot is happening in my life at the moment that time seems to be literally flying past. First of all, Maureen and I spent such a lovely few hours with Amy and Caroline yesterday - both are so similar in development that its hard to believe that this is mother and daughter in front of us. We have watched Caroline go through the same steps that Amy is now tentatively taking. we are so blessed. But enough of them after all you get all the latest news of Amy from her mother. I am sooooo excited about going to the USA to see our son Andre. It is 5 years since he left to go to the New World and a new world it has become for him. A job in the hospitality trade, an American fiance and wedding and so much more. I hate flying but any mother for a child will walk through flames to get to her offspring. So that is what I am going to do on the 20 October - fly which I think is completely unnatural for any human being. Encased in a tin can - albeit very large, with too many other human being for an unbelievabley long time to get to the other side of the globe. Going backwards in time - too terrible to contemplate. BUT at the end a reunion so memorable it will last a long time in my memory. Tomorrow, 27 September, together with my closest friends and family I will celebrate a Bridal Shower for Jenelle - she will be having the same in Florida - only behind us by 6 hours. Champagne, snacks and lots of love will flow around me as we try to share this exciting time with my future daughter-in-law. At last my family is increasing not only with a daughter-in-law but her extended family. How blessed are Gerrit and I. Am I going on too long with this blog - - can't help it I'm inclined always to say too much. But I am excited - join in this wonderful time with me. You also are important at this time and I wish you were all going with us on the adventure. Until next time God bless

In at the deep end

This is a quick test. Here I go...