Muscles & Mussels

The title gives a hint to a tasty morsel of the events of my day, this day being Monday, a rare Monday of chillaxing! Thanks to South African history for a pubic holiday on a great summers day! I do appreciate the reason for this Human Rights Day, based on historical events. I don't fully agree on current political reasoning's for recurringly fucking our economy on past events, but, well....

Further from my earlier blog of how the day started at 3am with a very happy cheerful Tammy, the little terrorist has not stopped going like the energiser bunny on E all friggin day long! She really is the sweetest kid on the planet, she has the most beautiful personality of any 3 year old I've ever had the fortune of meeting, but she's also the busiest!

I was on the phone to my mom chatting about all kinds of stuff, including the events and people at Saturday nights party, when Tammy's other granny, Liezel's mom (Ma) turned up unexpected.

Saturday night's party, the reason for the party being a combined party for my uncle Luigi (his 60th), and his oldest son Luigi (his 40th) being a unique father and son century (100 years combined) birthday party was a brilliant event at a stunning venue near Stellenbosch!

As for the 'muscles' part, Liezel & I went to the gym today for the first time in around a month! We both had a nice enough workout. I really didn't enjoy my game of squash because I'm unfit and out of practice, but I enjoyed the workout upstairs in the weights circuit. Liezel, however, worked up the biggest sweat I've ever seen on her. I was well proud!

Regarding the 'mussels'  my lovely mother-in-law pitched up with a bag of black mussels she had hand picked in the morning on the rocks at low-ish tide off the beach not far from where we live. Something I've never done, though she's clearly a pro of sorts!

Mussels and other creepy crawlies from the sea are not normally my fancy, and they looked gross in the pot after boiling, the ones that opened anyway. But when she grilled them with garlic butter and cheese they were quite irresistible! Seafood always looks good, it just doesn't do it for me besides fish, I'm just not a fan, and calamari makes me feel ill for some reason (the only food other than brinjil that grosses me out makes me want to hurl) but I tried one... a freshly picked mussel baked in garlic butter & cheese, and I loved it!!!

So I had 6! And I really enjoyed them! Genuinely!

Thanks Ma, brilliant!

But not quite a meal for me and my hungry wife and child, so I made boerewors rolls for all!

As I'm type this my sweet Tammy has crawled on my lap because she wants to sleep on her dad which she's promptly done. We had such fun playing soccer and cars and stuff this evening. She is a warm loving gorgeous joyful kid, the most awesome angel heaven has ever let loose in this world! So excuse me while I go put my princess to bed!