watering the food garden this morning & nur invites me next door to hear his latest dj mixes. we hang out once every blue moon & he de-briefs me about his life story updates – entrepreneur studies; dj'ing & club bouncering; gym techniques & marital stress. he gives me, my promised second lesson on virtual dj & we watch some porn. nur worked as a chef – he breakfasts me on his enterprise fund-raiser experiment .

my older cousins 'laura' & yvonne visit my grandmother this evening during her sunday radio church broadcast. lorraine's husband, titus & small son, tyrone & adolescent daughter, sherna accompany them. we spend most of the time discussing sherna having to repeat grade 11. lorraine & yvonne have surprisingly progressive ideas about child rearing (but i don't like the way sherna talks to her mother - she says her mother is very understanding toward other children but not toward her; i feel i can relate). tyrone & his father are enamored with my barbells & sherna with godfrey's new whitney houston cd. before they leave we have a quick family prayer (sherna doesn't participate - she reads a fashion magazine). the matriarch's in my family are very x-tian even if most of the rest of us are irreligious alcoholics
godfrey arrives late evening. he says the white gays at the "boerewors curtain" square-dance, so-called 'gat' (arse) party were very unfriendly towards lucy them.