Christmas 2008

I drove up to the farm at Pevensey near Underberg in KZN early on Christmas day. I arrived to find Brigid, Jeff's wife in tears because some animal, probably a civet cat got into the rabbit hutch and killed 1 rabbit, and 2 guinea pigs. All that was left of the 1 guinea pig was it's nose. The rabbit was draped over the roof of the hutch with a bite out of its neck and blood everywhere. Brigid said the rabbit was very old and sick and full of sores, and she was going to take it to the vet where she was working over the Christmas weekend in Durban and put it to sleep.... sniff, sniff. So she wasn't too happy as she drove down to Durban on her own, minus the bunny.

Jeff and I joined another of our microlight flying friends and his wife and 2 girls for lunch at the Bushmans Nek hotel. They were staying in a bungalow near the hotel for a few days on holiday. So that was quite nice - the food was pretty ordinary though! We went back to their bungalow in the afternoon and left quite late, in a bit of a hurry too because we wanted to get back to the farm before it got dark because the other 2 remaining bunnies were still out of their hutch!!!!

I had a call from my sister in Canada, wishing me happy Christmas as we were racing back to the farm on a dirt road trying to beat the clock. I can't believe a year has gone by since I was with them. See Visit to Canada 2007/8. While driving an owl took off from the side of the road and flew in front of my car and I hit it. I felt rather bad about that.

When we got back to the house, Jeff went in to unlock and I drove the car round to the back to see if the rabbits were still there... alive. They were thank goodness. Both huddled inside their house. I fed them and shut the door.