Hey there, Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa.
Living in SA means constantly needing to deal with power cuts. The para-statal company Eskom, has been struggling for years to provide enough power for the grid.
Even though there is a schedule with levels, the implimentation of this schedule is often done at short notice.
This evening was one of those evenings where the power went out with very little notice. Luckily I had some left over charcoal from Aime birthday and so I made a plan.
By stark lamplight the family got together to have supper outside as it was still a very hot evening.
We made a potato salad and had some pork chops on the
All things considered the family makes the best of any sort of problem and we had a pretty good evening.
Cheers!
@zakludick
You learn on the 'turn of a tickey' to change meal plans of late. Well done sorting the problem out, children still have to have a meal.
Tickey before your time.... "South African threepenny piece, which was replaced by the five-cent coin in 1961."
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I remember my Grandmother telling me about the Tickey and the Half-cents and all those sorts of things. She still worked int Shillings and stuff. !LOL
First coins I had were in the old system, decimal only came in during 1960's slowly changed in look from around 1964. Many smaller denominations have since fallen away completely being of no value at all.
Indeed. And now my kids barely know what a 10c coin looks like! Or ANY cents. What do you buy with 50c?!
Money has been turned into nothing worthwhile over time.
To think we were able to buy a Chappie bubble gum for 1/5 cent, or Wilsons bubble gum for 1c, normally change for a loaf of bread at 9c, arrived with 10c and change was always a treat.
Yeah, that's crazy. I can remember Primary School Days for me where I could get 5c sweets of 5 sweets for 20c.
Today you pay as much as R4.99 for a lollipop!
Thank goodness I don't have a sweet tooth, although price of everything tends to shock me daily!