FIVETRIBE

Off to the Mcgregors New Years Eve traditional Olie Bolin. Happy New Year!   (excuse the watermarks…trialling new software before I purchase!) This may well be the first New Year we have spent in Mcgregor – this evening we headed up the street for the annual ‘Olie Bolin’ which is a tradition in this part of the world. One of the locals prepares something similar to little donut/vetkoek balls sprinkled with castor sugar aswell as little glasses of homemade ginger beer. All the local villagers congregate, indulge in the fare, make a donation to a local charity and wish one another – so different and so cool! We then came home and drinks with some mates of my folks and spent the rest of the evening chilling out – we were all well asleep before midnight!

It has been a week. I am very very happy to have it behind me. Most of you are friends of mine on fb so you will know that Hooli's biopsy results came back clear. You can all imagine my relief. He is still at home with me even though he could go to school. He isnt really keen because everyone is treating him with kid-gloves and he isnt big on that. He wants to run around, climb trees, scale the climbing wall and play helicopter pilot in the big tree. Suffice to say the teacher isnt to keen on *any* of that before he has had his post-op consult. (and neither am I!) So we have taken to just arbing out at home. Literally just doing nothing but watching movies, playing endless games of Ludo and Uno, drawing and occasionally getting irritable with each other. ;-) The weather is glorious today so we are going to head to the beach and meet my sil and nieces. Tomorrow morning early we are going head out to Mcgregs - we are all in need of some r + r and luckily we dont have to go far (...