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Abra in Africa
Many thanks for your highly generous offer re: funding of the promotional tour.
Will be arriving Yeoville, Tuesday 24th with full entourage. Remainder of trip to be completed on unicycles as per contract.
I trust all our special dietary requirements will be covered including copious fresh shrimp for the two red lipped batfish.
Can you guarantee adequate security or should we pack flak jackets?
May 17
Disturbing news.
Pilot and co pilot stricken with amoebic dysentery mid-flight forcing diversion to Hosea Kutako. Red lipped bat fish not happy with quality of Namibian shrimp and Mrs Abra involved in fracas at customs. Ugly scenes after two of the unicyles went missing. Entire party now facing quarantine. Please advise Cyril Ramaphosa's office we are delayed. Imperative initial contact established before the Germans arrive on the 24th.
Ps cheque still not cleared.
May 18
Managed to slip through customs cordon at dawn after bribing guard with pocketwatch and Mrs A's i-phone. Have decided to head East although entire party 'babbelas' after Namibian vino experiment.
The red lipped batfish will be on dried shrimp ration until Botswana border where my hope is they can feast on mophane worms.
Google reassures me almost no 'robots' to hold us up enroute but potholes extremely hazardous for our remaining unicyles.
1100 km in a week is cutting things fine for the 24th so I urge you to be ready to quit your pozzy and take my place in Pretoria should we fail to arrive.
I know the peyote harvest on the Cape is in full swing but we must confound the Teutons at all costs.
Multiple intelligence sources indicate they plan to unleash a diabolical poetry offensive which includes repetitive use of a series of sixty three letter words.
The future of poetry as we know it rests in our hands.
Ps cheque still not cleared
May 19
With overwhelming sadness I have to inform you that the two weakest members of our party have met with an untimely demise.
As you know the red lipped batfish were already on short rations.
Overnight they became ravenous, mistaking the Grand-Pa powders I purchased at the garage shop for dried shrimp and wolfed down all 38 at one sitting with fatal results.
They were buried this morning in a clearing a mile inside the Botswana border their bodies draped in the Galapagos flag, following full unicycle salute.
I'm convinced they are now at peace in Batfish heaven and certain their sacrifice and courage on our journey thus far will never be forgotten, their souls immortalised within the annals of poetic history.
We are all shaken, but 'now-now' more determined than ever to complete our mission. Mrs A's phone withdrawal symptoms appear to be slowly abating at the prospect of milk tart and freshly fried doughnuts.
Ps Alas, my bitcoin account is currently beyond 40 below. Could your cheque have been trampled underfoot, rendering payee name illegible? Suggest cancellation and reissue.
May 20
This uneasy silence does not bode well.
I fear all is lost if you have been abducted by an advance guard of Teuton poetry fanatics.
It now seems most unlikely we will make the 24th after scrambling our bearings during ferocious dust storms while crossing the Botty salt flats.
Navigation almost impossible without pocketwatch, suspension on unicyles is almost shot and underwear badly shredded.
Currently wilderness camped beneath star spectacular at Kubu Island but like the moon morale sinking fast.
Mrs A still refusing to take the bus and demands a launderette so I seriously fear for our mission's timely resolution and can trust no-one from this point on.
I also worry our exchanges are being intercepted by DUP poetry moles disguised as emo-Teuton rappers.
We can not underestimate them as they run an elaborate communications network using Bavarian hilltop villages capable of beaming stanzas into space, plus they are highly trained in sophisticated infiltration techniques.
Every elephant herd we encounter from here on may include one of their spies. No rhino is beyond suspicion.
With this in mind it would be prudent to encode your future correspondence using Proto-Elamite script combined with random iambic pentameter.
After resting, we shall strike camp and head directly for Limpopo for a long overdue shower at the falls (a detour in relation to Pretoria I know, but Mrs A says she is taken by the name).
She may have a point as I have no wish to limp along Fairview Avenue and up the Union building steps in our current state of disarray.
Ps penultimate strip of half chewed biltong now significantly thinner and still no sign of nice fat checky-wecky....
Will be arriving Yeoville, Tuesday 24th with full entourage. Remainder of trip to be completed on unicycles as per contract.
I trust all our special dietary requirements will be covered including copious fresh shrimp for the two red lipped batfish.
Can you guarantee adequate security or should we pack flak jackets?
May 17
Disturbing news.
Pilot and co pilot stricken with amoebic dysentery mid-flight forcing diversion to Hosea Kutako. Red lipped bat fish not happy with quality of Namibian shrimp and Mrs Abra involved in fracas at customs. Ugly scenes after two of the unicyles went missing. Entire party now facing quarantine. Please advise Cyril Ramaphosa's office we are delayed. Imperative initial contact established before the Germans arrive on the 24th.
Ps cheque still not cleared.
May 18
Managed to slip through customs cordon at dawn after bribing guard with pocketwatch and Mrs A's i-phone. Have decided to head East although entire party 'babbelas' after Namibian vino experiment.
The red lipped batfish will be on dried shrimp ration until Botswana border where my hope is they can feast on mophane worms.
Google reassures me almost no 'robots' to hold us up enroute but potholes extremely hazardous for our remaining unicyles.
1100 km in a week is cutting things fine for the 24th so I urge you to be ready to quit your pozzy and take my place in Pretoria should we fail to arrive.
I know the peyote harvest on the Cape is in full swing but we must confound the Teutons at all costs.
Multiple intelligence sources indicate they plan to unleash a diabolical poetry offensive which includes repetitive use of a series of sixty three letter words.
The future of poetry as we know it rests in our hands.
Ps cheque still not cleared
May 19
With overwhelming sadness I have to inform you that the two weakest members of our party have met with an untimely demise.
As you know the red lipped batfish were already on short rations.
Overnight they became ravenous, mistaking the Grand-Pa powders I purchased at the garage shop for dried shrimp and wolfed down all 38 at one sitting with fatal results.
They were buried this morning in a clearing a mile inside the Botswana border their bodies draped in the Galapagos flag, following full unicycle salute.
I'm convinced they are now at peace in Batfish heaven and certain their sacrifice and courage on our journey thus far will never be forgotten, their souls immortalised within the annals of poetic history.
We are all shaken, but 'now-now' more determined than ever to complete our mission. Mrs A's phone withdrawal symptoms appear to be slowly abating at the prospect of milk tart and freshly fried doughnuts.
Ps Alas, my bitcoin account is currently beyond 40 below. Could your cheque have been trampled underfoot, rendering payee name illegible? Suggest cancellation and reissue.
May 20
This uneasy silence does not bode well.
I fear all is lost if you have been abducted by an advance guard of Teuton poetry fanatics.
It now seems most unlikely we will make the 24th after scrambling our bearings during ferocious dust storms while crossing the Botty salt flats.
Navigation almost impossible without pocketwatch, suspension on unicyles is almost shot and underwear badly shredded.
Currently wilderness camped beneath star spectacular at Kubu Island but like the moon morale sinking fast.
Mrs A still refusing to take the bus and demands a launderette so I seriously fear for our mission's timely resolution and can trust no-one from this point on.
I also worry our exchanges are being intercepted by DUP poetry moles disguised as emo-Teuton rappers.
We can not underestimate them as they run an elaborate communications network using Bavarian hilltop villages capable of beaming stanzas into space, plus they are highly trained in sophisticated infiltration techniques.
Every elephant herd we encounter from here on may include one of their spies. No rhino is beyond suspicion.
With this in mind it would be prudent to encode your future correspondence using Proto-Elamite script combined with random iambic pentameter.
After resting, we shall strike camp and head directly for Limpopo for a long overdue shower at the falls (a detour in relation to Pretoria I know, but Mrs A says she is taken by the name).
She may have a point as I have no wish to limp along Fairview Avenue and up the Union building steps in our current state of disarray.
Ps penultimate strip of half chewed biltong now significantly thinner and still no sign of nice fat checky-wecky....
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