Time's up

Mom and dad’s last day today…we are all feeling a little sad about tomorrow. We spent the day at home for the most part, only going out together to the coffee shop at the docks for cappuccinos and carrot cake, and a last meander through town for a few necessities. Then it was getting all the last minute things finalized - we realized that we can’t send St Helenian Pounds home with mom and dad (our savings to be put into our South African account), so we had to go to a few shops to see if they had any British Sterling they could swap (our currency being exactly equivalent to the GBP). That was done, and I had to get some documentation certified at the police station. Unfortunately the first PC I spoke to didn’t know what I was on about, but then a female PC stepped in and hand-wrote all the verification stuff on the copies. Not quite as sophisticated as one would like! Then Lynn the Hairdresser attended to a cut, a trim and a few snips. So it was a pretty busy day, which is good because any prolonged times of sitting and thinking would surface the waterfall we are trying so hard to keep in check.