BIG step, SMALL town, AMAZING feeling.

Bertie Horak · March 18, 2010, 05:58:36 AM

SANDY!!!
Didn't see that one.... Let me define... NEEDY for better and good internet connection, FRUSTRATED with what I'm using at the moment (uh-hum... internet connection, that is...), and the bastards who stole my laptop making my life more complicated...
Also... insurance wont pay... laptop still listed under house contents of previous address, which by-the-way is still also my one address, house not sold yet. What's the point? Isn't a laptop supposed to be taken where-ever you go?????
Otherwise Sandy, yup, let's say still balanced and relatively well adjusted in other departments, he-he...

Starting to stress out a bit regarding studies.... yes I'm writing the compounding and dispensing license exams on 29 May in Pretoria, and I haven't even received the books yet... there was problem (red tape $#%$#%) between department of health and University of Pretoria. Apparently they posted the books on Tuesday (I paid for the course end of last year already!!! Fortunately the exam was moved from April to May. Hope it's not too much work to study???

SandyB · March 18, 2010, 09:54:25 PM

Bertie ,, fact of life insurance is a necessary evil , but yes they always look for ways out ... firstly take them to task ... the minute you said you had a laptop they should have put it under ALL RISKS with the appropriate premium ... as its portable unlike a standard PC ... address has got squat to do with it ,,, in my opinion its an underwriting error on their part ... another lesson ... the minute you change anything inform the barstards ,, like your address ,,, I plague my insurers with any little change all the time ,, then they have no excuse that i have not taken due dilgence .. as it all shows on the records ... Aagh ,, they make me want to projectile puke ... fight the buggers and if you need advice ask this older fighter .. helped a few folk through such shyyyt....

Bertie Horak · March 19, 2010, 06:53:02 AM

Thanx Sandy, will scream your way if I need to expand my lonesome army! I know you'll be perfect for the job!! Just dont have the time and energy for unnecessary #^^$^% like this. Enough work to do, address changes, etc with medical aids, service providers, etc, etc, etc...

Michael Alexander · March 19, 2010, 05:00:23 PM

Insurance companies are leeches.... but you need them.... I think the crux is the fact that the insurance system is abused by certain people, milked if you will.... I know a number of people that "cash" in on the system........ yet all us honest joe's pay for it.....

Chris Macpherson · March 19, 2010, 09:44:06 PM

I also disliked insurence policies but was very happy after buying my Polo ,had the heart attack then found out i could claim under dread disease and then they paid 96k and the car was mine fully paid. I dont recommend going that route to get a free car, hahaha.

Michael Alexander · March 20, 2010, 04:03:49 PM

@Chris, that is a fair score.... it's the bastards that make their cars "go Away"... and then claim... that irks me... or the pratt... who's TV blew a fuse and then claims for a big flat screen...

Bertie Horak · April 09, 2010, 07:10:14 AM

Time I start posting a few photo's of my herbs and life here in Bonnievale, since I have better internet connection now....

Photo of my Echinaceas (purple cone flowers). I will definitely have enough seed this year to get quite a plantation going!

2nd one of my boy Tigger posing at my Chaste tree (Vitex). It was only 15cm high 4 months ago - grew a whole meter in just this short time! It must be loving the soil.

toonfandangl · April 09, 2010, 09:52:53 AM

Yes agreed with you all on the insurance company's they are evil necessity's...... I did read somewhere they reject something like 90% of all claims and its up to the claimant to pursue the matter so Bertie go ahead and claim for your laptop, over here everything has to be insured, the new one out in the last few years is funeral expenses, and they blow them out to thousands of dollars its going to cost you scaring people into taken out the insurance.

Bertie Horak · April 27, 2010, 01:48:07 PM

Well, Sandy said that if they pass this way again, they might just pop in.... and it happened! Wow, it was great! Sandy, Cherry and Paul surprised me here in Bonnievale today... first stopped at the practice, and then we went to the plot and enjoyed a glass of wine, chatting away....
THANK YOU guys, it was really great seeing you. I can just kick myself that I didn't take any photo's - me fool!!!
Oh and Sandy apparently doesn't believe in slave labor, so I'll probably have to do the weeding and dam cleaning myself in the end...
Hope you guys have a safe journey home, and I promise I'll be a bit more organized next time and treat you to a proper lunch (after your hard work on the land.... he-he).

SandyB · April 27, 2010, 05:55:42 PM

well yes it was a good day ,, we should have left earlier in the morning , but yes time does its thing .. we arrived safely cocooned in the blue jewell ably piloted by me ,, stopped off in Robertson to look at a highly overpriced antique store ... then on to Bonnievale ,, got a tour of Berties practice and then on to the smallholding , good beginning it is with the growing and the herbal store going on and as I said to Bertie with time passion and hard honest work it will become something good and sustainable ... anyhow instead of us taking Bertie out to lunch as I had a plan ,, His Mom was staying for the week and he said he had made a lasagne ... so thanks for the hospitality Bertie .. anytime in CT you know where you can stay , anyhow our trip back was uneventful excepting the huge traffic jam just past Klapmuts turnoff we doubled back and took the Wellington road and did the back route to Durbanville added a few Kilometers but far better than the murder of being caught in an hour long traffic jam ... Cherry another trip sometime ?? this time earlier in the morning ???

Cherry (Alcock) · April 28, 2010, 06:50:09 PM

@Bertie - thank you again; company on the trip, you and your mom and back again was lovely - very relaxing. Sandyb you are a honey as always - thanks for getting me there and back. I am always happy to get my hands dirty in a garden so not so much a slave to help Bertie as a willing helper to learn from you! Of course, Sandyb would love to take a trip out there with you and the Paul.

ps: Books printed out and in the post in the morning to you (forgot the envelope in Sandy's car - duh!)

SandyB · April 28, 2010, 07:26:32 PM

Mmm see the avatar still has blonde hair ... that explains it all ... but then again me forgot till reminded after SMS in the morning ... ha ha .......

Bertie Horak · April 29, 2010, 04:57:26 AM

Ya Sandy, that's why it took me a while to see who got out of the car with you, definitely not the same blonde I know from the avatar...
Thanx Cherry, in case you need postal address: P.O. Box 454, Bonnievale, 6730.
Oh and Sandy checked your feet on the way back - he said there was no extreme braking on the floorboard by his passenger, so he must have been piloting the blue jewel quite responsibly, or was it the glass of Shiraz and fresh air on the plot, having a good calming effect...?
PS: I'm going to harvest the "wild" spinach on the dam wall after work today... guess what I'm having tonight...

Michael Alexander · April 29, 2010, 07:53:26 AM

Hey bertie, you really are enjoying this country lifestyle then? No regrets yet?

Bertie Horak · April 29, 2010, 08:38:46 AM

Absolutely NO regrets, Mike. Like Sandy said, it will take time to get everything settled and the way I want it to be, but hard work and perseverance will prevail.
Still struggling to sell my property in Kuilsrivier, so at the moment turning every penny, not easy, but I'm working hard to get out the other side... alive....
But life in the platteland - excellent!
I'm happy - that's probably all that counts...