Afrikaans and English Visits

The chief medical officer’s wife, Elsa Bloem, has returned from a 3 month stay in SA. She is very Afrikaans. I went to visit her, and managed to have an hour and a half conversation without once reverting to English! It was great to be able to use expressions that I had grown up with, and hear a true Afrikaner chatting away. She is very into crafts – including lace making . We agreed to meet once a week for coffee.
As a thank you gesture for making Graeme’s book cases, we invited Steve and Maureen over for dinner. Arthur March had given us a leg of lamb, and I had saved a few potatoes from 2 weeks ago, for the occasion. So we had roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, broccoli and carrots, with chocolate brownies and custard for pudding. The Terry’s brought some bubbly grape juice, and we had a lovely evening together – eating good food, chatting (in English, this time) and listening to music.