Easter 2012




Sitting room, Carrot Bay


It's been wonderful having Tyler home this Easter, despite being busy with over 20 dozen hot cross buns to bake on Thursday and Saturday. Best of all, we had friends around for Easter Lunch which absolutely forced us to deal with some boxes and so by Sunday the house actually looked semi-habitable (see above). It used to be a bit like this in Joburg: Christmas drinks every year saw things like the roof being mended and hedges trimmed, so I'm always up for entertaining as a means to get some DIY accomplished. The weather on Sunday was the perfect balmy Caribbean spring day with everyone sitting on our balcony, lots of excellent wine and conversation and the house (almost) big enough to not notice the children.

William was a bit anxious that the Easter Bunny might not find us in our new house, but luckily, being a very modern child, he suggested we went on the Internet to update our address, so thank goodness then for http://www.easterbunny.com/ as all the eggs were again safely delivered. James, also being a modern child, noted that our domain address must still say South Africa, as  the eggs were from Woolworths. Arn't kids amazing these days? The wonders of an expensive education.


The rest of the weekend I'm afraid was tinged with great sadness, as our beautiful Abyssinian cat Mimi, disappeared on Thursday afternoon. We've hunted and called and have all been rather distraught.  She's been with us for almost 15 years and despite the fact that she was a queen of note and physically accosted the children when hungry, we love her dearly. Friends have been very kind to tell us of amazing stories of their cats pitching up days, weeks and even months later - so we live with a little hope. Even poor old Jasmine the parrot has been calling for her (along with an excellent imitation of the Croakie aned our spiffy new oven's timer switch).