My first mistake was to think that getting tickets for Afrika Burn in the Tankwa Karoo was impossible as they were completely sold out. So, tough luck for the eldest kids not getting their hands on two of them I thought!
While they were disappointedly hanging about on my stoep, I was told how desperately they needed to go there while I still have the wits about me to babysit their boys, dogs (one a very geriatric bull dog), and the house once again. I falsely placated them by saying: “It would have been fun for me to get out of my groove in Onrus for a while, I must say. What bad luck!”
