After the later than usual night before, we made sure the alarm clocks were off. I managed to sleep nine hours, but Virginia’s arthritis did not let her sleep that long.

Virginia joined Lorraine for a walk around the TWR property this morning. She took a photo of the security fence around the property to post. This is in addition to bars on all the windows and exterior doors of the buildings.

The Evangelical Bible Church had a ‘high tea’ for their women’s meeting this month, so Virginia invited Lorraine to go along. The meeting was started at 2pm.

Steve checked the electric meter for us this morning. It is inside the locked generator building under the water tanks. I had checked it when we first came and again in early August when the building was opened for other purposes. Residential meters in Swaziland work on a prepay basis and the meter for our house has just over a week of electricity left on it, as I had previously estimated. Using the meter number, more kilowatt-hours can be bought at several locations, including most supermarkets. The code on the receipt is then entered at the meter to add on the hours purchased. If you forget, the power shuts off after all your kilowatt-hours run out.

Steve suggested that I buy kilowatt-hours at the closest Spar supermarket, because they accept credit cards. This way you don’t have to get cash from the bank and carry it for making the purchase. While Virginia was away at the meeting, I went to Spar. Unfortunately, it appears that the Eswatini Electric Company’s computer was down, so the transaction failed.

Virginia got home from the ladies’ meeting just before dark. The main meeting was over but the ‘high tea’ was just starting when they left. Lorraine does not drive after dark, so the ladies insisted that they fill a couple of plates of food to take with them. So that’s how I got to enjoy the ladies’ ‘high tea’, too!!