Thursday Night braai!

[Michael Alexander]

The weather is lekker warm here today, with those high thunderclouds everywhere, kinda like up country, I finish work in 40 minutes, so I think I'll go home and have a few beers and a nice little braai by myself..... I don't normally braai in the middle of the week, but....this weather cannot be wasted.....

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Ek stem................  specially if it's about the beer drinking, you cannot let it go to waste!

[Michael Alexander]

You only get about 8 evenings a year like this,,,,, so why not..... i just must not get toooo pissed, I don;t think my better half approves of  this mid week kuier sessions....



braai

[Michael Alexander]

It's almost 8.... and the coals look lekker, I've had 6 Tafel Lagers.... and I'm about to BBQ...... I bought some Garlic Pork neck steaks and pork fillet wrapped in Bacon..... Note the way I am trying to avoid the RED meat!
cookin

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

I see -  the meat's not red and lucky for you, it's not mid-week anymore  -  passed that yesterday. 

Oh, you like making people jealous  -  I'm logging off right now  -  going to go and grab a Windhoek just to spite you right back!

[Michael Alexander]

Toooooo Late Aunty, I'm way into the jealous mode.... I'm also braaing bacon bites.... the tafels finished.... I'm onto the WHK draughts in a can now, Just had a good chat through the hole in the fence with my brother, actually even managed to sell him a bottle of Merlot Wine for 40 bucks..... It's for his wife... I think he is hoping that he might get lucky 2nite..... but then again I'm just a humble retailer and that ain't my business


Anyone read in News24 today, that in order to but an average house in ZA, you need to earn 40 000 rand a month....? Are they mad?

[Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee)]

Hopefully you will keep that shebeen stocked well for November during the reunion!

-  And  -  you gonna be so green with envy should your bro tell you that he did score on the bottle of Merlot!   

[Michael Alexander]

Don't you mean ORANGE with envy sister? And needless to say, this entire town will be well stocked on that weekend with you lot hitting the place,  I just need 5 of you to come "home" to make the weekend worth it!


ps... ek gaan nou braai, till later my cheetah cousin!

[SandyB]

Quite rightly so ... house prices have indeed gone  crazy .. to  think that I bought the  first house for R 26 000 in 83/84  the  second one in 2000  for
R 200 000  the values of the terraced homes our area   are now in the region of 850 K  to 1 Mil now  depending on  condition for thos ethat did not get in some  years ago it  will now  be  exceedingly difficult .. even  hearing of 2-4 people  forming a partnership to at least buy a home , not make somebody rich by paying rent ,amd  when it has appreciated sufficiently sell and hopefully the  profit will give some leverage .. although now thiings are a bit  static with the new  credit act ...  intersest  rates going through the ceiling again    and fuel also taking a jump ,, ther was an article in the  papers saying that  about 6,2 million  in SA  have  been  blacklisted so  far  and  theres more on  the  radar  screen as things  begin  to  bite .. hopefully it  will  slow  down property prices .. the only ones I pity then are  the  speculators that got in  too llate  and  as  some  do  have  bonds  to  service .. 

[Michael Alexander]

The housing market sucks... it's unfair and difficult for first time buyers to get in.... the only option is to build your own... I also feel that the Pam Golding's and the Seffs are helping to price houses way outta the reach of the average joe.... build your own house........

[Rhona]

How's that Pork doing? Hope you have lashings of apple sauce to go with it...........

[Michael Alexander]

Nope... all the pork was made in marinade by a Cape Town company.... only the Pork Belly was doused with a good lashing of Ina Paarmans Braai spice....

[Rhona]

Is it ready yet..............mind you don't burn the roof of your mouth when you bite into it.............Hey Mike, do you literly live next door to your kid brother?

[Alfred Boehme]

The weather is lekker warm here today, with those high thunderclouds everywhere, kinda like up country, I finish work in 40 minutes, so I think I'll go home and have a few beers and a nice little braai by myself..... I don't normally braai in the middle of the week, but....this weather cannot be wasted.....

Saw Mike hanging onto the bars outside the cinema, usualy he sits on the other side (while the spar trucks unload) but the sun was getting the better of him today he was in the shade. I think he's needs those   
Alfred

[Florrie van Zyl (Muir)]

Mike building isn't such a cheap option anymore. The stands have gone up and building materials too. Sometimes it is cheaper to buy than to build, if you can get a bargain.