Had such a fun and busy day today playing personal assistant to a couple of famous personalities who are so natural, normal, warm and down to earth, not to mention generous and extremely dedicated to their careers and commitments that it was only a pleasure to be able to lighten the load a little.
The morning was spent sourcing fabrics for garments to be made up by a local designer and took us to the lower reaches of Cape Town, Woodstock and Salt River. It took me back to the days of my extreme youth when Mother made all our clothes and we would go into town for the day and visit all the fabric wholesalers in huge old warehouses with unvarnished wooden floors, high ceilings and thousands of bales of material of every colour and texture. Once our purchases had been made, it was off to Cleghorn's department store in Adderley Street for a pink milkshake and a piece of cake in the tea lounge, where a piano player tinkled the ivories and catwalk models walked the ramp showing off the latest fashions to have arrived on our shores. The black wrought iron lifts were operated by (obviously) lift operators - going up! Ladies Underwear, Haberdashery, Shoes. Those were the days!
A dash into a gourmet deli in the Gardens yielded yummy lunch and a haunch of pork for the weekend roast.
The afternoon was taken up with a sortie into the yuppie areas of Cape Town with a visit to a wonderful jewellery store at the Cape Quarter (Free Range Jewels) who have the most marvellous collection of original craftsmanship. Then off to the Waterfront for a few basics, a stocking up of Nespresso capsules for me (my Christmas present supply has at last run out), posing for a few photographs with fans (not mine) and finishing off with mouthwatering sushi from Willoughby's.
I was chauffeur, selector, tour guide, navigator, parcel picker-upper (in the very best sense - making sure that nothing was left behind) and I had the most marvellous day in return! I look forward to doing it again soon.
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