Happy Boiling Hot Day

It's been so hot over the past few days I think my brain has fizzled out. Whilst the rest of the world has been wishing each other Happy Spring/Fall Day, we've all just been melting and sweating our way through the week. Consequently I've been seriously grumpy and had a major energy dip. The kids went back to school on Wednesday, not a minute too soon.

Anyhow enough moaning, as we certainly have enough to get on with. I feel like we have projects in every direction at the moment.

Could do better, coming up.

Tyler is on-island Tuesday & Wednesday this week, and a big push is needed on the family business. We need to get going and start baking within the next few weeks. We will hopefully have a leased 'factory' for this. I'm busy teaching myself food photograghy as we want to set up something on-line whilst we look for retail premises. Paula is busy conceptualising design ideas for us (love the name and dying to tell everyone - but it's still only reserved and not registered yet) and packaging needs to get printed. We are also preparing a range of Christmas & holiday goodies, which all needs to be ordered, made, wrapped and bottled.

Road Town Kids

Road Town Kids

I've also decided to bring back Road Town Kids, the clothing range I had for two brief seasons in SA, before time and energy forced me to put it on hold. We're having a trunk sale at the end of this month to sell off the last of my small stock and so am making some extra little things like hats, bloomers and tote bags with the leftover gorgeous Kaffee Fasset material. Quitely excited about this, as the clothes do fit in here and I'm feeling all inspired again. 

Looks like we are going to be staying in our house on the Hill of the Barking Dogs, until we get our own place, so we are doing some DIY to build more storage and I need to let wrip in the garden (just not today, please). It still feels a bit like Tortola's equivalent of Lonehill, but it's conveneient and manageable and we "get the breezes"  to make it more bearable.

A Pirate does his scales

The biggest project of all of course remains the boys. William starts tennis, sailing and piano this year, which makes last year look like a dress rehearsal. Speaking of which the older two are preparing for their RCM exams and have also upped their sailing to Wednesdays and Saturdays. James informed me today that now that he is in Grade 5 he needs an art shirt and deodrandt for Monday. Georgie has a very nice, new teacher so I volunteered to be Class Mom.

OK time to get back to just-sitting-on-the-balcony-it's-so-hot. We may have some effects from Hurricane Katia later today and tomorrow, but some wind and rain would be quite nice, actually.  Could do without the enivatable power cut that usually goes with however.