West Indian Summer

TS Isaac: More sturm than drang

We still have Tropical Storm Isaac going over us at the moment with lots of gusty squalls but it's mainly over Puerto Rico now where our friends are exploring Old San Juan in the rain. It's all a bit tiresome as we were meant to be sailing out today on the FGP (floating gin palace) but that's now lashed in the hurricane shelter and has to be sailed back tomorrow in order for us to pack it. Unlikely that we will get away much before Friday night. Also may be a little bumpy still, as the seas are running quite big swells. Anyhow we're not going to let stroppy little Isaac get in the way of our summer holidays which have officially started. The expression 'grimly determined' comes to mind.

News for the week includes a picnic at the bakery on Tuesday evening with friends visiting from SA and which saw the first official  loaves of bread being baked in the oven, accompanied by vinatge Taittinger and Riteway rotesserie chicken! We are still on track for our 5 September opening. Epic.  



Amazing to think that we only have just over 2 weeks of summer holidays left now. The boys have had a wonderful holiday with Kathy who is flying back next weekend.

They are so excited that their first little friends from South Africa are arriving tomorrow. In the meantime they're shovelling lunch down so that they can go and do some storm-surge boogey boarding at Long Bay. Nutters.

We'll be offline now for a week or so, whilst we sail off into the sunset (and post-tropical storm swells) for a bit of R & R.

Happy days.