Storms ahead

In more ways than one, I reckon! For one, there has been a severe weather warning for the Cape This weekend. Apparently, if they've got it right, we're in for gale force winds and seriously heavy rain. Lovely. Pity I don't have a telly in my room any more. I've PVR'd some nice movies recently, so could in essence snuggle up to them. Instead, it'll have to be the porn couch.

Oh, let me quickly fill you in on the story of the porn couch: When STBEH and I moved to South Africa from London about 2 and a half years ago, we had to buy in some new furniture to fill up our lovely new home, so since he was still working back in London, I pretty much had carte blanche on the interior design, so I was on a mission. Lo and behold, I saw it. A beautiful leather corner unit that would be absolutely perfect for the space intended.

Immediately I called him and told him that I'd seen what I wanted and the price and I got the go-ahead. I asked him whether he had a colour preference, but his only comment to that was, "I don't mind which colour you choose, as long as it's NOT white". Needless to say, I have a beautiful WHITE leather corner unit standing in my living room...

Well, it simply had to be white. Any other colour would've looked bland and boring. In my defence, it turns out he actually really likes the white and since it's leather any kiddy vomit or sticky chocolate hands simply wipes off easily. It has however been dubbed the 'porn couch' by some neighbors who thought that the day-bed part of it was ideal for watching porn on. I simply cannot comment on that.

Anyway, the sequel to the storm is that I'm seeing my lawyer this afternoon. I told STBEH this morning and he was visibly upset asking why I felt the need to break up a family. Thing is, it's not so much the need to break up a family as the need to be happy and ultimately if I'm happy, my kids will be happy too, so, wish me luck in my discussion this afternoon.

I hope you all have a great weekend and keep warm. Let's hope there's not too much devastation of our informal settlements as there always seems to be when big storms ransack them.

Madge x