THIS is not the column I wanted to write. I was busy with that column - just peaking with it, in fact, into the final straight - when everything died on me.
Eskom.
I needn't say more - and it wouldn't help if I did. They feel nothing, those people. They've got us by the short and curlies and that's all that matters to them.
Anyway, the column I was working on has now gone and a deadline looms. As they do. But what I can do, now that I've fired up this old laptop, is tell you a little about the column I was writing before our Friday afternoon went pear-shaped. Let's just hope the batteries don't die on us as well.
It was about greed and planned property development in the southern Peninsula, particularly in Kommetjie, where I must declare - lest any fool accuse me of trying to pass up my opinionated invective as objective reporting - I do own a small cottage. In other words, vested interests duly declared.
Unlike some people. But more of that later on.