Birthdays, 4am starts and corkscrews

Georgie

This week saw us hurtling between new frontiers on the hedge fund side, James' 11th birthday, the annual Talent Show and Family Food's biggest event to date at the Old Government House on Tuesday evening. We would never stand accused of not living a varied life.

So first things first: Tuesday went off well, with only a few minor hiccups like no CORKSCREWS to open any of the wine. Luckily we had a friend 'next door' who was phoned in a panic and could deliver the readies about a minute before 65 thirsty barristers descended on us. The canapes seemed to go down well and there were no further hiccups after the prospect of no alcohol.

On Thursday our eldest boy turned a mind-blowing eleven years old. His main present was  a Gill life jacket (you can see him wearing it in this picture left) which is used for racing. The boys have all the main regattas coming up in the next month or so, so a certain sailor was tickled pink. That evening we all went out for an enjoyable dinner at our local West Indian restaurant here in Carrot Bay.

Palms Delight

Tyler went off to St Thomas on Friday to buy equipment for the bakery, which we are starting to get into countdown mode now for and the evening saw us trooping off to 'Cedars Got Talent' which I was slightly dreading after such a......varied week. Anyway it was a total blast.  We had Alicia Keys (well not really) Abba (The Marvels & their  Mediocre Mums) Santana (the Spanish & Music teacher duo) and some brilliant dancing - with a Gr 2 Madonna-in-the-making, stealing the show.  It's always a bit of relief that, in the spirit of reciprocity, other parents are so scrupulously non-judgemental of one's own progeny, so everything was greeted with rapturous applause. The boys played their piano exam pieces and didn't embarrass their music teacher too much.

You can understand why Saturday was spent doing as little as possible although we do have to make some attempt at Taming the House. Saturday evening we had a braai and then fell asleep in front of Mission Impossible 3. Today we went to Cooper Island with friends for lunch, making Tuesday feel like about last year.