World's Largest Chess Game?

Eskom has stepped up their scheduled load shedding in the central urban areas - the office lost power today around noon - thankfully right after I had printed out the materials Mrs. G needed to submit to Tradepoint Durban today.  The load shedding was previously limited to the suburb and township areas outside of Durban (leaving me relatively unaffected), but they have now started cutting downtown areas for hours at a time.  On Tuesdays and Thursdays, they're supposed to affect my area from 6-8pm, something I'm not looking forward to.  It's hard eating, let alone preparing food, in the dark.  In most affected areas, banking stops and only cash-based commerce can continue.  Mrs. G went to the Tradepoint offices and M and I had to find an Internet cafe to work from.  Luckily the "Workshop" - a large mall in the city centre was running from generators.  There were men lined up on each side of this giant chess board, watching these two players.  I don't know that I've seen such a large chess board in a public space before.  Today was long but beautiful - M and I walked around the city - from the Workshop to Victoria Street Market Area for fabric.  We could walk everywhere because it was cool enough not to have to rely on local taxis.  Amongst the crowded sidewalks in the market area I saw Mrs. G - she said the reception of her products at Tradepoint was encouraging.  They will give her a decision by Tuesday but she seemed to be in a good mood about her exchange with them.

Comments

[Karen Lotter]

I am enjoying your blog. I do Tradepoint's website. I saw the selection of goods - from over forty small businesses on Friday. I was so proud to be a Durbanite. I took some pictures of the adjudicators and I know they were overwhelmed by the selection and the high standard.

Please make sure Mrs G has a profile up on Tradepoint's website.

http://www.tradepointdurban.org

Contact me if I can be of any help.