Chris finished his exams 2 weeks ago already and of course, now gets to play playstation or watch TV, while James has only just started his exams and has to study. As I am sure you can imagine, that goes down like a lead balloon and to get James to do anything is a trying process.
Saying that he did very well in his maths and was one mark short of 80%.
Today he writes NS (Natural Science aka Biology) and Xhosa.
But yesterday before I could help him with studying after swimming I had to try and find an 'O' ring for my salt chlorinator that was leaking. Initially the leak was insignificant, but by yesterday lunch time, the water was pouring out at a rapid rate. I sent poor old James on his bicycle to the local hardware stores and pump shops in the area to try and buy one, but unfortunately they did not stock it. He did however find the shop that stocked ice creams and chocolates though. . .
After climbing out the pool I located a shop that had the part I was looking for - an entire R30, the problem was they closed at 5pm and it was now 4.40pm and Chris had to be fetched from school at 5pm, in the COMPLETE opposite direction. Fortunately the shop agreed to stay open and wait for me and we finally got there at 5.40pm after fighting the traffic, whipped through the Mac Donald's drive through [dinner that was prepped will have to carry over to tonight] and raced home in time to attend the meeting I was hosting.
Thank goodness we were able to do some studying before I started swimming, otherwise we would have done nothing.
The wierd thing was I was so wound up from running around getting this part that after the meeting I then prepared 2 sets of minutes that were outstanding and did some other work, resulting in me going to bed rather late, needless to say this morning I could happily go home and climb back into bed.
Oh well just another day in the life of our crazy times. Roll on holidays 11 days to go . . .
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