Ops and Balls

Sorry. I haven’t updated in quite a while. Life in Cape Town has been more than a little hectic and I haven’t always even been in Cape Town. In fact, last weekend, I wasn’t in Cape Town at all. We were off visiting friends outside Stanford, where the air is fresh, the fynbos is fyn and the beer flows all day long. Views were admired, dams were swum in and beer flowed all day long*. 7 adults, six kids (aged 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and 3 months). Chaos.
Photos or it didn’t happen? Your proof is here.

And this madness seems set to continue.
This weekend we’re off to a tonsil and then on Monday, my little boy is having his balls removed. 

Hmm. Sorry. Hang on a minute. That’s not quite right. 

Obviously, that should read:
“This weekend we’re off to a ball and then on Monday, my little boy is having his tonsils removed.” 
Short interlude while I phone the surgeon and check that we’ve got our ducks in a row…
OK. Sorted.

The ball is no less than the rather exclusive (although apparently they’re going to let me in) Fancourt Ball, hosted this year by Sabine Plattner and “Tannie” Evita Bezuidenhout. Black ties and big names aplenty.
We’ll be making our way out along the Southern Cape coast (although not as far as the sleepy village of Port Elizabeth) on Friday and then partying up a storm on Saturday evening before a return on Sunday.   

 
Say Aah! (Say Eww!)

And then – in an effort to stem the seemingly constant streams of snot from the seemingly continual respiratory and ear infections, as suffered by my little lad – surgery! Desperate times call for desperate measures and a full on tonsillectomy with free** adenoidectomy thrown in seems just about desperate enough. While the global markets may be crashing down around us, shares in private medical care and jelly and ice cream manufacture seem to be a safe option right now. At least for the next week, anyway.

Of course, all of the above assumes that I’m actually going to make it as far as this weekend, which may not necessarily be the case.  

In other news, the word on the street (actually, the word via sms), is that The Ad Wizard and Mrs Ad Wizard are expecting a Baby Ad Wizard. This is wonderful news for them, rather surprising news for those of us who know The Ad Wizard and possibly quite worrying news for the rest of the world. But congrats anyway, guys.

* I may already have mentioned that bit.
** “free” – ja right!

13 thoughts on “Ops and Balls

  1. The Fancourt Ball, wow impressive. Are you sure they got the address right? It did say Mr 6K on the envelop right?

    All the best with the Op! I am sure he will be less inclined to cover you in Cherry Jelly once it is done.

    Ordinarylife´s last blog post was: Oops, was that Live? (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  2. All I can say is that I am glad I am not the only one who is not keepong with updates. Cape town is hectic at the moment

    Darkchocolate´s last blog post was: LIFE (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  3. good stuff with the heart thingum. might make me comment more 🙂

    Darkchocolate´s last blog post was: LIFE (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  4. You put a picture of your child’s diseased tonsil on your blog. There are no words.

    Except: I have never heard of Stanford in my life, are you sure you didn’t disappear to the US?

    And say hi to Tannie for me, I didn’t realise she was still around!

    Po´s last blog post was: Smallish Brittin (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  5. Thanks for sharing those tonsils! And yes – they need to come out – quick! Stock up on ice cream, ice cream, ice cream… Oh – and some earplugs for when the ice cream requests get too much!

    Lady Fi´s last blog post was: Down with grumpy old bats (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  6. I haven’t been here in ages and I’m greeted by that? Pfft.

    Hope the tonsil removal goes alright for mini 6 – Ice cream, lots of ice cream.

    Goblin´s last blog post was: The Goblin is a cancer… (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

  7. Tannie Evita is still holding court?? Blimey, she must be getting on a bit!

    And you know you’re in the right country for tonsil removal… the hard line here is suffer, baby, suffer. There are days when I long for private health care, even with all the prohibitive costs that involves!! Sure we could get it here, but once you opt out, that’s it – the NHS shut their doors to you forever! 🙁

    Hope Master 6K gets better soon, and that you have a fab time at the ball!

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  8. I’ve made it on to the 6000 blog again! I’m honoured. And thanks for the good wishes. We’re going to call him Harry and keep him under the stairs.

  9. Holy crap! You put a picture of your child’s infected tonsils on the blog. That’s 6 000 miles away from normal 😮

    Congrats to the Ad Wizards, then … I guess!

    Emil´s last blog post was: Contrast (Note: 6000 miles… is not responsible for the content of external internet sites)

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