We're on the up and up

We reached the top of this mountain anyway!

I'm very much up and about now. We even went to two parties last night! I'm doing a little bit of driving already and am working in The Family Office and planning stuff.

Boy do we have a lot of planning to do.

Summer holidays. Kids schools in SA. Passports. Bank accounts. Leases. Bakery expansion plans. New suppliers. The end of the Season. The start of the new Season. Christmas. Lists, lists and more lists. And forms. I've filled in a helleva lot of forms recently and scanned up a storm.

It's almost the end of school here, only another 4 weeks. The kids are tired and fractious after a long year which has had a few bumps along the way, but seems to have ended well.  William & Georgie will go back to school until Christmas, whilst James gets to have a 6 month adventure. This also needs planning otherwise he will just lie in his room and read his book for 24 weeks.

James has definitely ended school on a good note. A new part of the school curriculum is 'experiential learning' through travel. Without wanting to sound churlish, but these must be some of the most well-travelled kids on the planet. We would have preferred for him to have stayed in the classroom and learnt some basic skills like cursive writing for example, but Lucky Jim got to learn how to scuba dive instead. Nice. He has, of course, taken to it like a duck to water. Maybe he should take up polo back in SA - adding it to his list of "world's most expensive sports I do" and we can then just plan a Lifetime of Penury and add that to our list.

Photo by Cedar International School

First dive as a qualified PADI.  Next stop a Go-Pro for Xmas, no doubt

I'm also starting a bit of exercise this week. Not scuba diving, sadly, but gym. This is partially because the only thing I felt like eating for the past 2 months was Nutella toast which has had a rather devastating impact on the waistline, but I really need to get stronger again. The nerve damage has left some residual pain and a few weird after-effects which drives me to despair.  Tigers, of course, don't cry - so I just need to get out there and fight this bugger. Plus I'm going to need as much energy as I can muster for all the impending moves and empire-building we're lining up.

Onwards and upwards.