Happy New Year Island style

Life is very quiet on the island. (I feel like Robinson Crusoe). DH is working hard finishing bits and pieces around the house and I am sewing whenever I get a chance. The beach nearby is great and we take the kids and their spades and it’s just so beautiful. The weather is variable – one day very hot and sunny the next cool and grey. We have a view over the causeway bridge across the lagoon and we enjoy watching the tide come in. -If you’re wondering where we are, we’re staying on Thesens Island in Knysna on the Garden Route (can’t link you here, but I’m sure you can ‘google’ it.)

My brother and his family came for Christmas and New Year’s Eve and now my Butterfly Blossom quilt (Bonnie Hunter’s Pineapple Blossom pattern) has gone to it’s new home when they left on New Year’s day. We enjoyed having them to stay and when they left I asked them to hold the quilt up over their balcony so that I could get a good shot of it…



At the moment we have my great friend Jeannette staying (www.unite.co.za). She always comes with such energy and enthusiasm (except that she’s napping now LOL). Jeannette also came with her laptop!!! So at last, a hopefully semi-decent blog entry!! If you have commented or emailed and I’ve not replied, I do apologise, but I have such very limited internet access at the moment which allows a quick email check and that’s about it!!!

I miss reading all your blogs, but I am enjoying the days here… which start early with the children waking up to the bright sun so we all just get up and go for breakfast at one of the nicest bakeries/coffee shops in the world! Il de pain serves a killer breakfast with poached eggs, spinach, bacon…. Then DS2 sleeps so DS1 and I play or go to the nearby park or whatever, then lunch, then DS1 & 2 nap (yippee) The heat takes it out of them. Then dinner and an evening beach trip or a little row with the inflatable boat of my brother’s. I am not tanned and gorgeous (LOL) because I tend to stay out of the sun during the day – it really is quite hot here when it’s hot. We go to the weekly Friday market for dinner (DS1 likes to get his face painted there)

and on Saturdays we often go to the Farmer’s market, Sundays involves our ‘usual’ breakfast and a walk around the Thesen Island market. There is a lot of craft about.

Well, that’s about it as I’m being summoned to get in our inflatable so anchor’s away and speak soon :O)