Hi Sult,
It's so nice seeing you again, you'll always be my friend!
Sounds like you and your family are doing well over there, great to hear about the children and the upcoming wedding! Happy anniversary to you and Mrs Papper.
The world's full of corrupt politicians it seens!
We're so disillusioned here with politicians messing up our beautiful country; the opposition are not much better, all just there for self-gain!
We've been fighting to have our road repaired, as well as a huge ravine that formed along a public lane, following a destructive storm mid April. No one is doing nor saying anything! Our pleas are falling on deaf ears!
But...we try and enjoy our little haven and not focus at that too much, but will not stop fighting with the authorities to take some action!
A flatlet in our neighbour's property was flattened by a mudslide from a steep bank below the road - no retaining was done by the Municipality.
Most of the house next to them was destroyed by another massive mudslide that same night, this time from the school. Aerial photography from previous years told the story; 4 years ago the school built an action soccer pitch at the top of the bank but made no provision for stormwater run-off so the ground started eroding and that's where the mudslide originated!
They are only now starting to build retaining walls, the Municipality are not saying a word about the road & lane!
There really is no place to hide so we just get on with our lives as best we can.
There's trouble all over the world!
Take care & chat soon.
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Well thank you so much for taking the time to read and comment. There are folks like you and Eric V W who will be friends for life even though we haven't met in person.
Your hubby must be shaking his head and fist at those people who allowed the construction of that soccer pitch without proper retaining walls given his background in civil engineering.
It seems that roads everywhere are allowed to crumble away where the authorities don't use those roads regularly; proof of the saying "out of sight , out of mind."
I read your recent post about biscuits and scones... it made me chuckle about our exchange back then. Almost as much as the @lizzle and @simplylizzle story of how we found each other because of @buttcoins.
Thanks you for the well wishes and we are one week away from the wedding now so things are pretty tense with getting things set. I would have been happy if they just ran off to Las Vegas and got married and then come back and told us. But young folks will be youngsters and they don't realize when you plan a wedding you actually leave time for the planning.
For sure there is trouble all over the world and when the truth finally becomes known the USA won't be viewed in a good light ... we've poked our nose in everyone else's business under false pretenses and it will become known. I love what our country was founded as but I have nothing good to say about the people who have been running it.
Take care and I'll check back in soon hopefully.
Sult
Hubby spoke to an engineer who's been assessing damage for an insurance company and that engineer said that from what he'd seen, most of the damage could have been avoided if property owners, as well as the authorities, followed proper engineering practices, but that's all fallen by the wayside, as has maintenance!
It's sad what's happening in your country as well, but it seems like many parts of the world are run by corrupt officials!
Yes, I remember how @buttcoins used my name instead of @simplylizelle, which led to our meeting :) Those were great times! I've not heard from her for a very long time.
I still have no grandchildren, my oldest son is moving to the Netherlands later this year, and the younger one is back in Johannesburg after a stint in Russia, of all places! That was just before Covid lockdowns took place. He ended up being stuck there for a month longer, as they had their lockdown, and all international travel was brought to a halt. A very trying time for all of us, but the Russian people were very good to him. He was in Orenburg which is on the border with Khazakstan.
He did not come back with a Russian bride :) Although that was not his intent, he now says he should have tried to find one there as they're not as spoiled and demanding as Western women!
Youngsters all over will leave arrangements to the last minute which can be really nerve-wracking for everyone, especially mom & dad! But I'm sure you're going to enjoy the wedding.
Hope to see you again soon and hear how the wedding went.
Our big problem here regarding topography is that we are so darn flat and so close to tbe coast so we have problems with flooding. When these farmers sell their tracts of land and the developers buy them up the dig retention ponds and use the soil from the pond to raise the level of the land the devs are going to build on.
The retention ponds work for minimal type rains and work fine but when we get hurricanes ( I think where you are they are called "typhoons") then the ponds get over filled and flooding takes place. So areas that never had a flooding isssue in the past when it was farm land end up with issues and people down stream along the rivers and streams that carry the water to the coast are really impacted even worse.
Were 5 days from the wedding now and the DJ for the reception isn't going to be available now and the wife is scrambling to get one.
Take care and I will do a dash about the wedding hopefully soon after it.
Sult,