Sleepy Gecko Guest House and Recording Studios

16/06/2022

Happy 15 years Sleepy Gecko! We shall return better and with several improvements. Yay. Happy birthday!

26/03/2022

Dear Customers and Well wishers,
Thanks very much for your kind support whilst under a force majeure situation.
Without IT corner Melville, and Ziggy's pet pamporium, charging devices and supporting my dependents through 43 days of no electricity in the primary business and over 2 years in my primary residence.
If this was a war or in terms of the constitution or the Geneva Convention, all those injured or hurt in the process should be afforded the support of the United Nations.
A second complaint has been logged with the United Nations human rights council.
Whilst awaiting feedback and support, during this situation which is worse than the pandemic and the riots. The personal and the juristic persons which is the business has been ignored. It's my fiduciary responsibility to highlight this because the constitution includes juristic personalities.
I pray that the powers that be realise the mistake and my birthday tomorrow is a joy to behold in my primary residence and business!
Namaste and thank you for your kind support!

18/03/2022

Guess what/who/gimmeAname became the latest addition to the Gecko Crew, a rag tag mob of liquorice all sorts? and a tribe of chiefs with no Indians? just a solitary tough little Critter! And I shall name him or her Craig!

17/03/2022

Day 34 without electricity and the means to earn a living.
6 indigent "trouble makers" is not what you expect to have to handle after a global pandemic.
As we are halfway to guest house thanks to the city of Johannesburg, it might as well be a halfway house for those on the verge of destitution and destruction.
Calamities aside, why have we all forgotten to reside during the week and weekend. We have not suspended as Rooms are available @ 300 per night!
Candle included the rate!
Thanks very much for all our kind supporters!

04/03/2022

Dear Courageous Customers,

It's Day 21 without electricity and whilst I have been now over 2 years without electricity for myself and half the business it was at day 21 where I suspected that drawing the line would be inevitable.

The city of Johannesburg region B services cannot verify and confirm that my name and contact information do not match the provided account information.

They have not done any form of anything, for example coming to the business and residence to verify the authenticity of the problem.

They have no interest in assisting fixing or solving this problem.

In terms of section 36 of the constitution chapter 2, your rights may not be limited where they lead to degradation of life, living, dignity.

We are all supposed to be afforded the right to Freedom, equality and to be treated fairly.

This situation is so Abysmal that I have to state that there is no hope for the municipality as the constitution dictates that any and all processes and systems that are responsible for the degradation as described should be terminated.

This means the termination of the monopolistic system that operates in this region.

I shall begin to petition parliament as nobody seems to understand the constitution and how it's meant to be enforced.

In addition faced with this life threatening situation there is zero support unless you are a criminal, then you are provided with support to deliver your best defence!

I am so disappointed in the city and despite the honourable Mayor and her reforms, she is backing this system and information.

I formally believe that this system is fallible in the extreme and I would dispute and challenge every single letter and information or bill or reading provided.

It's time for everyone to stand up to this abusive system and the information contained therein. They are not able to link my name and contact information with the correct account information.

It's 21 days of hopelessly trying to get this to be sorted. God would have created 3 universes in this time, and we still don't know who we are @ the city.

Disgraceful.

Thank to IT Corner for allowing me to charge my devices to stay online, Ziggy's Pet Pamporium for helping with the pets foodies and to HomClear for assistance with linen laundry.

I would be bankrupt by now. Not that I am not!

26/02/2022

Thanks very much to all the support from our Customers! Your continued support during this time is heart warming.
Your concern and your sense for adventure is well noted and thanks very much for your thoughts and feedback.
SO you have to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity. You get to imagine life before technology. You get to break free, of the internet, hot water, phone calls, and distractions. Come and experience isolation bliss, or share a romantic candle light discussion with your special someone!
Unwind from the binding of your social standing and spend quality time today.
The cost only 300 rand per stay. ( No backsies if you go rushing off back into the light screaming insanely)
Everything is subject to availability at the time and nothing is guaranteed. Be a devil walk on the wild side!
See you when you get here!

26/02/2022

Day 15, Forgotten by the municipality.

So it's around this time that clothes begin to start walking by themselves. Having waited, many clothes have come out of the closet.

They are wondering around in the Shape of my body. I have no idea if they smell like me 🙏🤣🙏

About 3 to 10 emails are circulated around the Region B offices, this has been the case for over 2 years now.

The city is on a revenue witch hunt with a zero tolerance attitude for which I applaud.

As I have been waiting now for 3 years for my own meters or meters in the business name. Nothing has happened.

So I shall continue to wait patiently whilst the obvious backlog and the ecosystem in which the business exists, like suppliers and customers begin to think that you are joking.

Having had the opportunity to fill all the rooms last night and tonight at normal rates. Thanks again for the third weekend of bread and butter revenue being lost.

How can the city even expect payment for services when they are responsible for Gross Negligence. As the only alternative is renewable energy where does one get 640000 for 2 off grid systems. Complete.

Affecting earnings and living way below the survival line, for which most people don't experience. No alternative sources of revenue. How do they expect one person to feed an ecosystem of 15 years of operations.

I think that the city and the decision makers should have oversight. They clearly are not able to even send through a team to counsel or assist with alternatives, I believe that 15 days of torture and the resultant indifference to pleas and requests is in contravention of the Geneva Convention.

What do you think?

24/02/2022

In South Africa, there are essentially 2 groups of people.
South AfriCAN'TS and
South AfriCANS.
Most people are designed to find ways and means that you can't do anything, The CANTS,

The South AfriCAN, people are somewhat dispersed and are being taught not to say you can otherwise you will be given all the work to do!

So Iet the Workaholics work if they want to, because a Nation of people with their hands out is not Social Loafing, but loadshedding of a human kind packed with excuses and inconsistency.

We all know that the puppy chasing its tail will never catch it and if it did nobody would be there to see it.

Moral of the story is Dogs that don't chase their tails succeeded or know better.

24/02/2022

Day 13, Calamities and drama changed to the blog/musings and random thoughts of a chronic workaholic:

Engaging in practices that provides you with a consistent reward, like a rat pushing a button to get a food pellet, forms the basis of feeding what you need or want. For the psychologists out there this is without any manipulation of the feeding system. The only practice is push the button and get the results.

This is essentially the same action that every salaried person operates under. Work, get paid on a specific date, follow the rules and norms engage and Live your life, but don't ever break the mould. Because nobody likes mold all over the place.

Enter "wannabe nutty professor" me, who somehow uncovers a conspiracy that has all this work going on but what happened to the cheques. The mailman forgot me until someone said that I have to tell the mailman to include me and then still do it myself.

To bring the relevance and the contexts together, tomorrow is day 14 of forced leave day.

Resistance is futile say the Borg! In fact what reply has even come back as yet with an exact delivery date. (I am probably wasting my time) BUT what if I would never stop working and have some fun. One disaster after the other dealt with and heading into the third, it's only now that there is no work by forced inaction.

I have been banging on the door trying to get everyone's attention and I was thinking (Dude take a break have a KitKat have a good sleep, just vegatate and recharge your batteries)

It's almost impossible to switch off but with sporadic business how can I make this fit into an organised result that still shows results deliverables and concerted effort to do my best.

If you become wound up so tight, like a rusty spring you are going to have to really work so hard or achieve as much equal distraction. So when the spring begins to find itself smothered in complete darkness and nothing is working to go on.

All you can do is laugh out load and kick back and relax. Focus on the little things and guide the bigger things to follow suit.

Things shall work out how they are meant too, and the drama is playing like a repeat. The song is turning into ridiculous laughter as redunculus plays around in my head.

As a holiday destination albeit different reasons throughout the seasons, if a workaholic can't be at peace then it's a failure to deliver.

More fun, more pleasure, more efficient working methods, so that o can spend more time with my family and dependants. It has taken a couple of weeks but as stressful as it has been been from a business perspective, I don't think that I will forget how much more I can see from in the dark and have not been AWOL to more convenient environments.

Sometimes life's insane bureaucracy's lead you to an end point. Regardless of how many times you fight to prevent the inevitable, sometimes losing a fight against a bigger opponent when Nobody gives a damn, is like invisible.

The underdog is always that until he becomes Top Dawg. This pooch is gonna have some rest and enjoy the change.

A change is as good as a holiday. With the power off and only the stars in the sky to guide me, You can't get experience like this in our demanding, and every minute managed schema of life.

Off grid is not off, its just about learning how to make the life enter and return and grow to those things you need and switch off, pack away those things that you don't. Stick with bare essentials (as you might not have clean clothes) consider nudist colony and forget about clothes. Add Value by renting out your own optional "en room" generator.

Each perceived setback that you experience even when you do whatever it takes to prevent this from happening, is a very strong inevitability to experience.

I paid for it, so should learn why I spent so much effort and energy to keep them on, when off was a failure; not a new experience.

Sometimes pushing all our energy in a direction, to prevent something might just be as beneficial as letting it rush in on you. The odds suggest that you should at least have one experience of the "feared results in compliance failure"

Well there you have it. Disheveled a bit tough a bit, but alive and better yet I found my rose tinted glasses.

There is a silver lining in every cloud.

Thanks for reading to the end if you did is foodies time!

22/02/2022

Day 11 - No electricity, Thankfully there is water.

Thank You!

I would like to send my thanks to IT Corner for helping daily with space to charge devices.

Susan from Susan's laundry for helping with the linen. As laundry cannot be cleaned otherwise.

Cobi from Ziggy's Pet Pamporium for helping keep the cats and Boris in food and allergy and collagen suppliments.

Thanks very much for your support. We would be rather lost without your support.

Woof woof woof, miaau meeeow meeouw.

20/02/2022

So it has been a period at the Sleepy Gecko unlike ever seen in the history of the guest house. In the last 15 years there has never been a period of Such gross Negligence by the City of Johannesburg. Service delivery is a critical component of any hospitality establishment. For 3 years the city has refused to acknowledge me in my primary residence and business. Discrimination based on my current marital status and not being the account holder. Has seen darkness and water switched off again. Having advised of numerous billing errors and issues. I was advised, to get the account holder to speak or go and see them. My only essential travel during lockdown was too the municipality to which I could not even get the statements delivered to me via email.

For 9 days now I have been unable to earn a living at all and for over 2 years half my business and primary residence has been in the dark. The utility account when you get the disconnect card has gone up by 250000 but you never received a statement. In addition it states do not let your services be reconnected incorrectly.

Having been dutiful and following to the T absolutely everything I was told that I could humanly do. I have waited patiently for myself to receive an account or the business as per my other requests.

Having received a reference number on the 1st of February 2022. I still don't have a utility account, I am still not recognised by the City. And this breaks about every single constitutional right to equality.

They have taken millions from me over the years and treat me like I am an ignoramus that crawled out of the swamp. I shall not support corruption but stand in defiance of a tyrannical system that ignores all single parent households (like the personal trauma isn't enough.)

I have suggested that the best solution is to probably consider your contribution to accounts and services because when the Kakkadoodles hit your fan your payment history is nothing, if it doesn't have your name on it! The inspiring loyalty and payback from the city is darkness service withdrawal. Worse than riots and pandemic!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back outside. The real threat was hiding with you just as afraid of a tiny invisible thing that is as invisible as I am in my own home. The SAHRC has absolutely no support to offer and neither does the Joburg Ombudsman.

With nowhere else to get this matter sorted. I can only state that having made payment mistakes and being unrecognised for 15 years of my working life, I would and have changed every single supplier and provider because who I invite into my ecosystem and pay to be there is now my fault. And I bought it. It broke on a pandemic, and I would not trust it to have my back or support. This is professionally and metaphorically speaking.

My apologies for the lecture and you are welcome to drop past and watch some of the live feeds u have created.

Tomorrow is day 10 and 21 since application resubmitted for the 5th time. It not my fault that I am in the dark. I have done and provided everything I possibly could and can.

As a single individual trying to do my best to ensure service delivery, if my city services provider can't hear me for 3 years of explaining. I refused to pay another person's utility account! Especially when 35000 litres of water is used in my home not by me! I would look like the Oros man if I drank that much water and I have seriously objected to the continued extortion.

Does anyone at the city care. Have I been lucky enough to have a case worker hold my hands for 3 years nope, nothing nada, they take millions and leave me free for mahalla, like they don't hold a monopoly.

With zero alternatives, I choose to revive the old fashioned way of InnKeeping. There were establishments before electricity and will be there afterwards.

It would be awesome to remember. We are in the dark ages. No frills less bills but are still operating and trying to establish a new consistent minimum service delivery. Something more than just 4 walls a roof and a bed. WATCH THIS SPACE for the latest old fashioned way to host and have fun!

06/02/2022

February: The month of Arrows. Cupid's arrows or Direction Finding? Let the arrows direct you to the guest house. Hopefully you will be smitten by the Gecko. Once bitten twice shy? It's a new year so don't let the love bites bother you! Spend some time romancing and connecting with your squeeze before winter comes and we start to freeze. Lay your foundation so that love helps you build warmth in your heart, and that is how we play our part.

30/01/2022

Let's make hay, whilst there is rain? It's perfect weather to explore the interior of a room. Don't get lost in your mind, people these days are not always that kind. A Sunny disposition even in the rain, can do much to ease your pain. So be sweet and book your suite online. Alternatively we are prepared to accept your smoke signals for booking so long as it's something delicious that you are cooking. Have a great week ahead. Suites are Fossil and Amarula as seen below.

26/01/2022

Geckos! This is your Captain speaking! We are heading into the dark and deep abyss! The city of Johannesburg in its infinite wisdom has decided that as a hospitality establishment we are no longer allowed access to electricity and then water! So it's our turn to undergo radical new marketing. This means that since we are not allowed to have our Constitutional rights, we shall be disconnected soon. But watch this space as we go off grid and offline. The new city mayor cannot help, so we shall work with our kak enabled broom, to bring beer and buxom ladies with stax of meat Just like an inn or tavern in the middle ages. Looking forward to accepting your coin for your stay. We shall never die! Despite tyranny and rules of inequality!
Viva Power, viva Amandla
Aweh!

11/01/2022

Curiosity killed the cat! Nuuskerig! I hope that you are still curious to see what will happen to the hospitality industry. Up and down and around and around, like a yo-yo walking the dog. So before we find that it's Christmas again don't forget to make sure that you have checked-in. The vibe is getting stronger so don't wait any longer, your finger is aching, to be taking, a room this year, so that you can be safely drink your beer!
Drink responsibly and don't forget that there is safe off street parking. Rates go back to normal from the 1st of March 2022. So take advantage of the special rates before it becomes way too late!

01/01/2022

It's a brand new year, brand new canvas on which to paint your annual masterpiece. Have your annual check up, bath, and of course your Gecko Visit. Don't forget to take advantage of the last 2 months of lockdown rates. Normal rates return from the 1st of March. The new financial year. Do not be timid or shy, let your fingers do an online booking NOW.

28/12/2021

As we reach a month end, and new year's end weekend don't forget to book ASAP.
This weekend is going to be a sizzle, fizzle and drizzle. Make resolutions and solutions especially in respect to pollution. Be sensible and don't drink and drive, party here and stay Alive

22/12/2021

It's definitely been a year! Some wins some losses. Another year under our lockdown belt, all experience is good experience. Say your prayers don't get covered in pet hairs. It's been hot and cold so even the animals don't know what to do! Count your blessings and say thank you! Hug your loved ones whenever you see them. Share the joy of love, care, kindness and compassion wherever you go. Mad Melville needs some mighty maniacs to move and groove the area to new year! Gather at the Gecko for a plan of attack! See you round like a bullet hole in a billboard!

16/12/2021

Summer, the end of the year, and a new year have arrived and is just around the corner. Take a well-deserved break. You earned it. Stay at the Sleepy Gecko and like a lounge lizzard, chillax, by the pool. Cocktails canapes and general cool cucumbers are the order. Safe off street parking available if you feel like numbing your brain cells in the street. When you get back to a brain cell you can travel home safely. Enjoy the festive season and happy Holidays to everyone. 🥳🎈🤗🙏🧐🎁

04/12/2021

04/12/2021

Boris, birthday bash, first live feed

27/11/2021

First we had a pool, then the flowers created a pond. Pondering the future of the pool during a heatwave, saving water and smelly situations arose. Then the heavens opened and rain came pelting down except through the pipes all around town; frowning to myself the crazy clowns closed us down just as I earned my pool crown. 🤪😜🤣🤭 Happy thanks giving, next year could i pre order anything but a new wave 🌊🌊. But please put them in the pipes so that something comes out 🤣🤣🤣 pool pic taken this morning.

16/11/2021

When the beds are not available, then when in Rome make do with the next best thing. Introducing Mr and Mrs Nibbles, who shows you how to sleep on a hot day. Anyone got a hammock?

15/11/2021

New week, new outlook, new ideas. It is a new, old world out there. Old is the new, new and new has never been cheaper or more expensive!
It's time to contemplate these kinds of things whilst chillaxing in the heat. Do not over heat or blow a fuse in your brain we are here to help you relax, unwind and then get sorted, so you can get some work done!
Party, working, resting, groups whatever ever your need we shall do our best to accommodate you. Business, holiday or sport groups we can make a plan

09/11/2021

Good afternoon Geckos! Dont forget that we are crawling distance from 7th Street in Melville. This means that if the heat or the liquor gets you down, you can leopard or baby crawl your way back. Park the car and enjoy your night out whether you are a baby or party animal. Literally next door!

07/11/2021

Don't be square so we can see you round. We are still open during the week, which is completely different to a weekend. During the week you can chillax before the party monsters delight and entertain you on the weekend. Safe off street parking. It's time to sizzle and sozzle, whilst I try to find my googles, as it seems that I need to become the kreepy krawly. Swallowed or AWOL this mysterious creature has taken the like and seems to hiding somewhere on Strike. Viva Viva krawly's of the Kreepy!

21/10/2021

Enjoy the nightlife in Melville! Don't drink and drive. Rather stay for the night than pay with your life. Off street parking is available to help keep your vehicle's safe too!

15/10/2021

Are you sizzling like a sausage? Come be cool like a cucumber. The pool is ready just in time to catch flowers 🌸🌸☺️

13/10/2021

So after fighting with the kreepy krauly for the last 2 weeks and asking Dr Google. It turned out that the diaphragm was damaged and the replacement part was delivered on Monday! This meaens that the pool will be back to normal from tomorrow.
So take the time to have a swim and who knows what you could win. No more fish left to catch, now it's back to creating an amazing breakfast dish. The eggs may hatch and chickens pop out, or maybe you were hoping for a Duck. 😂😂 Don't forget to book online to avoid disappointment.

05/10/2021

So as we think about voting, we are not allowed to change our minds, so I send you *book at the Sleepy Gecko, your choice is inevitable* vibes. Vote with your booking AND your feet! Vote vote vote, don't be ashamed I would like to hear your voice. Please do not hesitate but share. Unless you are square then I shall see you round.