Birthdays and Book Clubs

We’ve all been busy, busy, busy.

Thursday was book club, which I really enjoyed, but as per usual, had problems with the driveway. Even low ratio did not magic it away. The babysitter thought I had done a runner, when I finally pitched up home, an hour late.

Yesterday was Georgie’s 8th Birthday. Can you believe this gorgeous child is getting so big? He went off to school with 22 doughnuts for his class and Dad was despatched to St Thomas to go shopping. The requisite Lego and other pressies were duly handed over and we had divine tuna and saffron rice for dinner, prepared by the resident chef. The party is actually next week – a snorkelling affair at Brewers Bay, with drinks (parents) and hotdogs (kids) at the little bar on the beach - with a snorkelling-themed ice cream cake - which is maybe a bit high risk.

Tyler finished up on Thursday, for the month and I started work on Friday. Before I had barely blinked, and said “off-shore trusts” I’d finished my half day and was off for lunch at ‘Charlies’ – because, of course, it was Friday, and traditions have to be upheld.

I have also spent the past 72 hours devouring news and ordering magazines on line. I  sent a (reggae) singing birthday
card to New Zealand and generally caught up with the world. Bliss. 

Tyler came staggering back from his US shopping trip with telephones, Wi-fi routers, kettles, towels, kids lunch boxes and a multitude of other things necessary fore island life. It is a slight case of Extreme Shopping, lets be honest - but now I can hardly wait for Puerto Rico - which is the real deal. St T is just KMart & Home Depot.

William was meant to be going to St Thomas this morning with his friend Sammy to go to ‘Coral World’ – again fairly extreme to let your 4 year old go to another country – on a boat – for a birthday party, but unfortunately Sammy has got the dreaded 'Bug" which is going around the island, so I suspect we will just hang around the beach today and recover from our hectic week! We have diving tables to learn and gardening to do, but mainly we need to do some sweeping and mopping - the house is a "bladdy tip".