I’ve been in Thailand and haven’t been in the blogosphere for three weeks.  I’m back and catching up with reading blogs and doing challenges!

Here are my answers to this week’s Share Your World from Cee

These days every day is good. I didn’t think I was ready for retirement but now that I’m there I’m loving the carefree days doing what I want when I want. However, my perfect day would be something like this.  Get up early, pack a flask of coffee and head off into the bush as the sun rises. The morning chorus of birdsong will be loud and the first sighting of the day would be an owl bringing a mouse to a nest in a tree close to the road. The sightings would continue to be regular and exciting and include lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog.   The day would end as I sit in my camp chair, glass of chilled white wine in hand and as the sun sets gloriously in the western sky.   This while The Earl grills dinner on the open braai which we eat with delicious fresh salad and sweet potato done wrapped in tin foil in the hot coals.   Yes – that would be my ideal day.

Complete this sentence: My favorite place in the whole world…..

See above – The Kruger National Park – any time of the year.

 Kruger National park

Who was your best friend in elementary school (prior to age 12)?

My best friend in Primary School (or as you call it – elementary school) was and still is Jennifer.   We met when we were 7 and were inseparable until her father was transferred to another city when we were 11.  We kept up a correspondence (snail mail) for many years and saw each other erratically.  The amount of time we’ve lived in the same city since those four years at school total only 3 years.   Yet we are still best friends forever  – soul mates.  Email, Skype and Whatsap make keeping up so much easier these days – yet the past systems didn’t stop us.

What inspired you this past week?  Feel free to use a quote, a photo, a story, or even a combination. 

I was in Thailand and the Thai people inspired me big time!  Thailand is indeed the land of smiles.  The people are cool, calm and collected. They never seem to lose their cool and nothing stops them doing something to earn a living.   Imagine rowing your kitchen to work and selling your wares to the tourists.  Or attaching it to your scooter and setting up on the side of the road.  And then cooking the most delicious food in no time at all.  Amazing.

En route to work with fully equipped kitchen