Friday 17th September
Sitting at the airport waiting for the boarding call, just another hour to go and then forty five minutes until we get into the air and then a couple of hours until I am home. Looking forward to it now. I have seated myself in the front row of the airport facing everyone else, I feel like I am up on the stand at church looking down at the congregation. My reason for doing this? I have a wall behind me so nobody can read what I am writing over my shoulder, kind of silly if I am planning on posting most of this on the blog I suppose but the habit of looking for privacy rules my choices.
So far it looks like my flight will not be very full but then there is still another hour to go before boarding and a lot of people can arrive in that time.
There have been a lot of mosquitoes around on this trip which is unusual. I usually don’t see any but this week there has been a definite surplus. My worry is the whole malaria thing, I don’t mind being bitten by a mosquito (ok I do mind but I can survive it ok) but I do worry about Malaria here. I stepped out for a little while this morning to go buy some munchies for my wait in the airport but now I am here I am thinking about the boys and Ruby – they will appreciate some chocolate etc when I get home so I will wait for the food on the plane. Ruby has been speaking about when I get home and it seems she is preparing a meal complete with pudding etc but all of the boys are now sleeping out at their granny so we will be able to have some nice quiet time together this evening. Looking forward to it.
It would make a huge difference if Ruby could come on a trip like this with me, the time in the evenings would be nice and meals would be a chance to talk and have fun instead of just eating and watching others doing the same. Not that I don’t enjoy watching others – it is one of the things I like doing, but every meal gets a bit much (read I am lonely and miss my wife...).
Captain announced just a short while ago that we are flying over the coast at Maputo, by my calculations we should be flying over springs area now on the way down. Again I wish I could jump from the plane with a parachute and land in the back yard without all of the hassle of going into the airport and driving back on the highway. Pilot just announced we are descending now and have passed over Witbank – so much for my calculations although, to get to Springs from Witbank will only take a couple of minutes flying at seven hundred odd kilometres per hour....
Temperature in JHB: 21 degrees Celsius and guess what, visibility is relatively poor because of all of the haze caused by the many fires around – good old Gauteng/ South Africa. If I flew in from Maputo / Madagascar and didn’t see fires burning below when the grass was dry I would think something was wrong. How messed up is that?
My meal today was the chicken version of Monday’s meal except the salad was Potato today and not pasta. I had two tomato cocktails and took another two appletisers so I could give Ruby something. Considering how hungry I was before getting on the plane, that small meal was enough to satisfy me – something must be wrong with me because there was no way that would have been enough just a couple of months ago. Out of habit I was looking to get more food and was going to ask the stewardess for another meal but self control won out in the end and here I am now having not had the meal yet feeling ok. Makes me wonder about myself and a whole lot of other things also. Do I really need all of the things I feel I do need or am I convincing myself I need them? Do I really need to replace the cars and keep them “up to date” (I can show myself really convincing evidence to back that one up though). Do I need to buy houses right now to make more money? I don’t know.
I do know that I want to be able to stay at home with my family regularly and not have to go to work etc. Time to pack away for landing...
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