''Soopa-Blickie!!!''

The woes of the wet weather continue!! After another downpour last night, it's been all fun and games this morning with the 'jetty men' who clearly think that they're invincible!!
Having told them that it wasn't a good idea to leave this morning, the driver, who is about 108yrs old, thought he knew better and rounded up his mates and set off down the road. All the pics were taken not 250m down the road where they soon discovered that maybe the 'musungu' wasn't talking crap and that maybe the other day he stalled the offloading for so long because he knew that the road is like an ice-rink for about five hours after a rainfall. I don't even think that the best 4x4xMassia Figson could have done the trick this morning. Besides, I think the neighbour has had enough of the antics over the last three days as he told his supervisor that under no circumstances should he allow any of 'jetty men' to even think about coming and asking for help pulling the truck.
Haha!! we even almost managed to get the cruiser stuck and that's saying something. But I'll attribute that to the fact that 'The Man with the hands' bricklayer aka 'Soopa-Blickie'(see pic with guy wih enormous hands single-handedly pushing an eight tonne truck) kept breaking branches off trees and putting them in the road for traction. One such branch then lodged itself between my axle and hand-brake cable bringing a halt to proceedings in a rather sticky patch of clay. Thank goodness for Difflock!!
The morning show culminated in the truck driver's great skill in almost totalling the new gate!! Luckily some sandbags and stone were at hand to regain traction and get them round the gate with only millimetres to spare. But they're out now and determined to get back to Lusaka today. Good Riddance I say. As do my staff! Manson put it perfectly this morning when he said to me with an enormous grin on his face, ''Bwana, these people from town, they think they are very smart!''
We've warned them of a particularly sticky patch just up on the main road which they WILL get stuck in without any winching points nearby. But, they're still going to try. I have also given them strict instructions NOT to call me. If you want to do stupid things, do it in your own time!!!
On a lighter note, we've managed to get the jetty into it's final position this morning with relatively little effort and I've decided that it's going to look smashing once we get all the timber on it. The neighbours agree that seeing as it's got more floor space than some of the chalets in the lodge it's only fitting that we have a 'jetty wetting' when it's all done.

Look out for more fun&Games soon....got a vehicle that needs to get in this afternoon???...;))