Yesterday was quite hot and humid ’til late afternoon, when clouds returned. This morning its again cloudy, and much more pleasant. There has been some light rain.

We get mixed reports about what the weather will be like. We’ve been told that 30c is about as warm as it gets. We’ve been told that hot and humid is normal and unusual. It seems that everyone agrees summer is the rainy season. We’ll have to wait and see.

It’s now been 3 weeks since I bought the scooter. The dealer, “Marine and Bike”, has not yet delivered my plates and registration, for which I paid an additional 300 Rand. Someone has told me that businesses here are bad at delivering after payment. I’ve had two deliver as promised, and two that have been late or, so far, failed. I will have to call them. They were also supposed to locate an open-face helmet in size XXL. They may have dropped the ball on both counts and need reminding. Nice thing with my home insurance here, it comes with legal services, so I can get a lawyer to write them without having to pay, should that be needed. Of course I’ll also complain to Honda, whom I would expect to prefer honest dealers.

I hope now to keep this blog reasonably up-to-date. The ADSL line is installed and the ‘house tour’ project is nearly complete. I was trying to wait to finish that before dealing with blog entries, but it just got too long. Unpacking is almost finished! The maid starts here tomorrow. Now I need to find a gardener, preferably one who knows his business, else I’ll have to find someone else who can tell me, so I can instruct the gardener. It is typical here that a ‘gardener’ is an unskilled worker that can’t do anything else. I just hope he doesn’t call me ‘boss’, as I won’t call him ‘boy’!