Post 57 Build it Journey

Blog Post 57

Today was unbelievable hot. Hot, flat and dusty. Thank heavens I opted for a shorts day with smart shirt and trainers. Otherwise I would have died. I did big mileage again today so in the past two days and today I have done just short of 1,500 kms. If you include the day before that I have done nearly 2,200 kms. That’s between Monday and Thursday plus 14 Build It stores with the subsequent meetings. I am on a roll 

Today’s blog is not going to be very exciting as all I did was drive, meetings, drive meetings from when I woke up until it got dark. But to record the day here goes;

After a very calm evening and a good night’s rest I first met with Charles Tarpley who was most friendly and a great first stop for me. I was then headed to Lichtenburg where I had an awesome stop with Gerrit the owner of Lichtenburg Build It and Shaun the manager. What great guys and they were so enthusiastic about the site it put me in the best mood. I would say that Gerrit has been the most active probably on his listing from all the Build It’s I have visited so far which is around the 165 mark. They have had some excellent results and Gerrit and Shaun are awesome.

After a quick breakfast at the Wimpy I was off to Mafikeng (or Mahikeng) to meet Nadeem who also was super enthusiastic about our site as was Uvesh Khan at Zeerust Build It whom I visited next. In fact Uvesh loved it if I can say that.

I then headed for Rustenburg even though it was getting late in the day and was lucky to have a great meeting with the very nice and kind Sabine Swanepoel who shares a surname with my business partner Fiona 

I was keen to keep going so drove on too Magaliesburg and tried my luck at the Magalies Build It but they were closing as it was now the end of the day so I said that I would come back the next day.

The picture today was taken during my drive and even though a very poor photograph even by my low standards it shows just how dry this part of the world is and how the drought is absolutely devastating our country. The picture does not show the enormity of the dam that I drove past but there was literally not one drop of water in it. It was bone dry. A terrible site. What do you do as a farmer when you have livestock and crops to water? There is simply no water in this part of the country. It’s actually scary so everyone please pray for rain.