Monday Happy Monday

Now it’s lucky for me that several people have been following my blog (actually nearly a hundred people unbelievably, not even counting the local paper that are featuring it on their website) and it appears that I have some friends who are able to arrange things that global banks and international insurance companies seem wholly incapable of organising (shame on you Amex, Barclaycard, HSBC). My friend Sandy’s husband Phil (keep up) emailed me to say that they had read about my plight and he had checked with his South African PA who had said that all I needed to do was have money sent over to me by Moneygram. It could be sent and received on the same day and could be picked up from anywhere that used the Moneygram system. In my case this was Standard Bank, a whole 2 minutes walk away from my hotel. Now when I heard this and rang Phil just to make sure he wasn’t having a joke (I know he wouldn’t do that actually) but really just to check a couple of points it was all I could do to stop myself jumping up and down on my bed and shouting Alleluhia. I babbled away on the phone until I had calmed down and being a careful girl at heart said I would check it out with Standard Bank the following morning as I didn’t want to count my chickens. Once I got the money I intended to not only count my chickens but to also eat a whole one. Sandy and Phil are now officially my heroes.