Gosh, I didn’t realise it’s been a while since I’ve posted. We’ve been extremely busy doing fun things and now I’m tired of doing fun things and would love to sleep for hours… Well I can’t because I need to catch up with things starting the opening of the Drum Cafe on Wednesday evening…
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Drum Café is a corporate team-bonding concept, and is now gaining popularity as a place for strangers to get together and spend the evening banging on African drums. The launch party is on the 13th September and the first night open to the public is the 20th September. Acclaimed South African drumming company Drum Cafe who have wowed audiences all over the world with their Interactive drumming events for corporate and private clients is now open to the public.
Drum Cafe started in 1996 in Johannesburg and opened the famous Drum Cafe venue in Cape Town in 1998 .Due to the enormous success of the Drum Cafe performing for major corporations and private events around the world the Drum Cafe went international. They now have fourteen offices globally and a theatre show in New York that has been going for sixteen months. Drum Cafe has done 12,000 events in 28 countries and drummed for many world leaders and celebrities, the most recent list include Nelson Mandela, Nicole Kidman, Karl Lagerfeld and President George W Bush.
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I. picked me up from home and we drove into London to the Times building where C. works. A. works nearby so we waited for him to come over. We drove to near London Bridge and parked the car. I like the city a lot, it’s not that busy actually, wonderful buildings everywhere, old and majestic! We went to a pub to have drink first and then we walked over to Glaziers Hall where we were welcomed by drinks and food. I had a nice fizzy wine [several to be honest…] and the food was excellent, original African food. I had shrimps and rice, ribs and spicy chicken, lovely!
The show started at about 20.00 and lasted for an hour and a half. It was cool although the drum I had was not really good, didn’t make much sound. We had fun and it was a very nice experience! Here are some pictures taken that evening.
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DM. came over this morning at 10.00 to pick up one of the workbenches that are in the spare room. I took it apart but left the bottom bit because I wasn’t sure if it could fit in the car. It would only take me another three minutes to take it apart though so it wouldn’t be a problem at all. I discussed the car with DM. because we offered them to buy it from us. It feels better to me if a friend buys the car than having to sell it to a total stranger. A. put some ads online but so far we didn’t get any serious response just a couple of emails and a weird phone call.
I’ve also built a small website with pictures of the car, it’s been visited quite often. We had an appointment this morning but the woman seemed to have canceled all of a sudden. That gave us plenty of time to reorganise this day so to us it was actually convenient. She seemed to be some weirdo anyway so we didn’t really take it serious. I took DM. for a test drive, we went to her studio to show the car to ER. her boyfriend who had a drive himself. They are both happy with it and we are happy with this solution.
We can keep the car until they’ve sold theirs and in the meantime we can still use it to move all our stuff, excellent deal hey?! We went back home and had another coffee. DM. left after half an hour or so. I then called Chantal because I promised her to bring over the espresso machine since we would be in the neighbourhood anyway. We would also have to take some stuff to CH. so on our way there we could drop off the espresso machine. So I called Chantal to tell her that we would be there in half an hour, then I called CH. to tell her that we would be at hers in 45 minutes.
We dropped off the coffee machine, Chantal was waiting for us outside the apartment block. It’s a busy road and there was nowhere to park so it was easier to do it like this. We drove to CH. and gave her all the stuff, mostly garden furniture, some PC speakers, a little bamboo table and two shelves that I took of the wall in the lounge and computer room. We stayed for an hour and had a coffee. CH. was preparing food for the BBQ party that she was going to throw on Sunday.
We went to the supermarket afterwards and bought some groceries for the weekend. Then we went to Decathlon, my favourite sports store to see if they had some flees for me. Unfortunately most of the summer stuff was already sold out but I managed to find some cool Adidas clothes. Light weight and quick drying fabric which is very handy. to take with me on holiday in a couple of weeks. So we had a busy and productive day.
I’ve thrown out so much stuff, put it all outside for the garbage truck to collect. Funny thing was that most of the stuff was gone in a couple of minutes. Francoise took my CD player, some neighbour took my laundry spinner which was perfectly fine and almost brand new, I didn’t use it anymore because my old washing machine died years ago, the one I bought after that had a built-in spinner. I cleaned out the garden and most of the kitchen. One big job needs to be done and that is sorting out my clothes…
I will save that for last because it will take me a while and I will have to pass that on to friends as well, so better wait with it… It’s not really necessary but I’d rather do it now then after the move… I’m happy to see that other people are happy with my stuff, whether they are friends or neighbours or total strangers, it feels good like that.