What a week. I took my first vacation day on Monday...and have been paying for it ever since. Catch up is brutal.
Still, well worth it. Because last weekend, we went to the beach. We're lucky enough (very lucky are we) to have a beach house in the family. And even luckier, the owners of said house (dear parents) are as generous about sharing their home as they are about most everything. It was a brisk weekend - the kind of windy weather that calls for a sweater but allows for bare feet. At the beach, we sleep hard and eat well and play plenty and rest up.
Early on Sunday morning, we drove up to the far north side of the island - where the sea and sound meet at a gentle little inlet. It's nearly always deserted on this side of the island - and very likely you will see a few dolphins schooling in the inlet waters. Ben built a sculpture in a tide stream, while Daisy and I mapped salt marsh islands throughout the sound. It was nearly perfect.
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Mmmmm, that sounds perfect!Especially the sweater and bare feet bit! Actually, we've been having that sort of weather here lately as well - great after the sweat of Jan - March (I was warned of this by the cleaner at the office who told me in November that it would soon become 'shoe-shoe'!)
Paradoxically, sweaters and cool weather have this Adlard household indoors and staying away from the beach. How odd we are ;-) Colder weather (it never really gets cold here) has Ros behind the newspapers abd ne pacing up and down and wondering what to do with myself...
Work is tough biut hopefully will become incraesingly satisfying. I'm working in a Joint Venture grouping, as the only representative of our firm, on a fast-track industrial development (400 million rands) that has stumbled and become a political swamp. The head architect works strange hours - his wife and child are in Harare, he's inn the process of moving them to Johannesburg and thre Jo'burg office has seconded him to East London, so he's here for two weeks and then gone for five days, which means he works over the weekends and we don't communicate at all...bugger ne?
anyhoo, got my laptop back from the repair shop and it seems to be repaired. Got a phone call from an irate client on friday saying that their house is a go and that I need to go out to tender on the contract asap. that's a month's work in a weekend, so I'm blogging instead and will tender on depleted information, duck and dive when the contractors claim extra fees for variations. I don't carry professional indemnity insurance...hmmm?
I don't know if this is all going to reach you -isn't there a cap on reply length?
Will write again later.
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