SUMMER IS ALMOST HERE...CAN'T WAIT

Hotting up in the city...........soon it will be covered by the purple colours of the jacaranda trees...my favourite time in Johannesburg.

Sitting on my patio, looking out into the garden...colours, more colours....blooming roses, lilies, huge ferns with the leaves moving slowly in the cool breeze, birds singing, blue pool, blue skies, dogs barking in the distance..........so relaxing....wow...a small yellow lemon on my very ancient lemon tree.......forget working....forget all your worries.....suddenly i am struck with the memory of the song SUMMERTIME.....and the living is easy...........

I feel energized.........i can't believe i haven't written any reviews on the so mamy books I have read the in past few months..........so with this new "energy".......i am going to get into it.......before having to dash off to...where else....no, not to my dream shack on a small greek island but to WORK..........yes JIMMY'S here I come...soon....

So check out some pics of summer in the city, listen to some summer music........and have fun and enjoy the moment...

  

SUMMERTIME

Love this song by Ella Fitzgerald...........

Summertime and the livin' is easy

Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy's rich and your ma is good-lookin'
So hush, little baby; don't you cry

One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by

One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
And you'll spread your wings and you'll take to the sky
But till that morning, there ain't nothin' can harm you
With daddy and mammy standin' by

A new learning curve

Wow...haven't found a spare minute in the past week....hectic hectic time!!!! Been trying to have a new haircut...no time....watch Breaking Dawn...no time....now that tells you something!!!  For me not to make a plan to see and hear Edward Cullen has to mean something serious in my life!!!! Never had anything stopped me from being one of the first to see the previous Twilight movies and now.....there's something weird going on in my life!!!!!! Nah...nothing like that....just finding each day going by faster and faster....Why is it that when I was 15 I couldn't wait to be 21....time moved so slowly for me...and now...I want ....time to slow down....don't go so fast....Crazy.....
So here I am...2am....blogging, checking book reviews on other blogs and trying to write my own reviews on the books I have read in the last few weeks....yes I did find time to read....a lot of time....i just love getting into bed with a book....and most times read until the last page...which of course gives me just a few hours to close my eyes and rest my body.....it's like I want to read everything now....not tomorrow, not next year....well the following year because right now there are only 22 days left in 2011...........my god....how did I get here so fast!!!!!!
The last three weeks have been somewhat nerve-wracking, unexpected, surprising and nothing like I thought I would be at .......it has been a challenge for me.....doing something so different to what I have ever done....but exciting at the same time......creating something new!!!! And working together with my husband for the very first time.....now that is something awesome.......finding ourselves together 24 hours a day....and actually liking it....IT'S REALLY A GREAT FUN TIME.....
Our store in Birnam, Jimmy's KFC is really going well. We love meeting people and offering an amazing time to all our customers....lots of hard work, laughter, and best of all,,,,,,enjoying it.
Costa is totally amazed ......imagine...ordering 4 tons of POTATOES in the last three weeks...now that is something!!!!!!! Yes, these are what makes THAT PERFECT CHIP

 

A lousy day

Spent the whole day waiting for the famous ESKOM to bring back THE LIGHTS to our shop. The whole area had no power the whole day and eventually closed the store by 8pm after waiting and hoping something would happen....but NO...
When is ESKOM going to get it right!!!!!!!!! It's a disgrace......every day we hear about power shortages, shutdowns....and they get away with it....even though they charge us such high rates...................
it's not as if it only happens once in a while....but it has become a daily occurrence...........
hopefully tomorrow we will SEE SOME LIGHT....

Chilling Out on Sunday Night

Chilling out after a day at my store......all those fish and chips, calamari and chips....prawns and chips flying out........still thinking about the fish roll I ate last night.....wow.....just thinking about it must me want to go back, open up and make one for tonite.....nah....think will just carry on hanging out with my darling Costa........oh boy someone is having a fabulous time at the party across the road from me...in the local St Luke's Church Hall.....actually the music is really amazing.....african....sounds like from Mali or Congo.....and from the sounds of people shouting.....they are really enjoying it..............
Elna Quick who is married to a SAA Captain Paul Quick....I flew with both of them in my days as an SAA golden girl....came into the shop tonite....haven't seen her for almost 20 years....i surprised myself....i remembered her and her name....i guess i won't be suffering from a loss of memory!!!!!! Yesterday another colleague....Louise Farrell.....it's getting like a meeting point with all my old SAA friends and colleagues!!!!!
     even Barbie wanted to be a flight attendant........so cool...............
Oh....silence....has the party ended??????? No I hear some screams, cars hooting.....i guess it's winding up....
oh my gosh ...I found this pic of SAA cabin crew training...how to be a fabulous flight attendant......and the old springbok .......
flying was such a romantic thing to do.........loved my job.....some days wish i was still flying the skies......but well.....taking another road .....
Oh my gosh.................I have still not seen Breaking Dawn Part 1...........I cannot believe it......I have to find the time....soon......and go and check it out.................

The Best Chip Roll Ever

I tasted my first Fish Chip Roll.......at Jimmy's Killer Fish & Chips, Melrose tonite.....Wow....I absolutely loved it.......taking small bites to make it last longer..............I am hooked on these rolls......

finally....the hard work, late nites will soon pay off..........

 

Jimmy's Killer Fish & Chips Melrose store.....at Melrose Crossing on Corlett Drive, Birnam across the entrance to Melrose Arch....
Okay, after all those days spent in Mint Street, perfecting the "how to make the perfect chip" I am now moving on making my own perfect chip at our store in Birnam.
The last couple of days have been really hectic.....trying to get everything together to be ready to open officially on Monday 14 Nov......at 11am..........so anyone out there who wants to discover the super, fab taste of Jimmy's Killer Fish & Chips, come on over......................Costa and I invite you to have some fun and some good food........................
found this image below.....how clever is that/??????????????????????

reading, reading and more reading

Spent this week reading some of my favourite mills & boon novels.....enjoying reading them again....still find them fresh and interesting.
Off to more training in Fordsburg....probably be back home after midnight tonite.
A real buzz in Mint Street on the weekends....lots of families walking around, shopping and eating....a part of joburg so different to what most people know......
check my book reviews on goodreads....click on the link on my page

the perfect chip

the perfect chip @Jimmy's Killer Fish & Chips....learning the secret of how to make it...that's what I spent doing today!!!!!!
As my new business venture is in the business of offering this much loved item  to our  customers, I decided to learn a bit more about chips and why the world likes eating them.

"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow," wrote A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie the Pooh.

The word “chips” appears in Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

A good chip makes a man feel more charitable to the whole world than any sermon; a good chip is loved by everybody

Fish and chips became the traditional meal among the working classes in Great Britain. In 1860, the first fish and chips shop was opened in London by Joseph Malin.

   Jimmy’s Killer Fish & Chips opened its first store in Mint Street, Fordsburg in May 2011.

So what makes our chips so amazing?????

Freshly cut potatoes every day. Crisp skin, golden brown in colour, a light fried flavor. Soft inner texture. And a sprinkle of salt, a sprinkle of Jimmy’s secret  recipe, a sprinkle of masala for that hot taste, a dollop of tomato ketchup, some vinegar and finally a dollop of Jimmy’s secret Whip. YUM!!!!!!!!

In between my “making the perfect chip” lesson, I have become addicted to one of our items….THE CHIP ROLL.

What’s a Chip Roll??? YUMMY & ADDICTIVE IS WHAT!!!!!

Place some of the perfect chips inside a toasted and buttered roll and voila!!!!

You will want more I promise you!!!!!

hectic day

spent day doing training....at my age....can u believe it......at the Fordsburg Jimmy's Killer Fish & Chips...hectic....chosen my 10 for my store.....really excited ....a new adventure in my life....talk about a change.....

a new direction in life

 Okay, it's not about books...but want to talk about some new changes in my life....from travel to food..... within the next 3 weeks my husband and I will have our franchise store in Melrose...next week I will be learning how to cut and fry chips and all those other things that go with it. And of course it will be 7 days a week.....oh how I miss those days of flying .....dinner in paris, lunch in lisbon, shopping in new york.....none of that now.....just chips, fish, more chips......
So if you feel like tasting really fab crispy fish and chips come visit me from the 10th Nov at Melrose Crossing  Mall in Corlett Drive, Illovo.......and catch up with latest news and gossip too of course!!!!!
This is going to be one of the last free weekends so I am just hanging out.....i am so excited about my blog....that i can't get away from it.......
will keep you posted with news of my new adventure