Richard Scott Blog: 1st January 2023

Happy New Year.

Monday

Joanne and I decided to try do nothing for 4 days, so we chilled by the pool and played lots of backgammon and rummy. Joanne was tanning while I just relaxed. I got the pool temperature up nice and high to like 27. It was yummy. I also managed to add the small beads into the new Pool Pillows Monday afternoon. I wanted to test them to see if the new beads worked better.

Tuesday

Relaxed by the pool again. I got stuck into a book called Rich Dad Poor Dad that I saw lying in Dean’s room. I’ve been wanting to read it for years. I see it was first released in 1997. I can’t believe I haven’t read it since. I managed to get about a third of the way in one day. Joanne is still reading Passing the Torch.

Wednesday

Relaxed by the pool. We also made a Lasange in our new gas oven.

Thursday

Joanne popped out the the waterfront while I got stuck into a little bit of admin. Irini and Claude invited us to stay with them in Noordhoek for new year for a few days so we made plans to head out the next day.

Friday

As I mentioned we headed out to Noordhoek Friday at around 10. We first popped past The Crayfish Guys to pick up some yummy crayfish for a New Years Eve braai. We had a wonderful Friday chilling by Irini’s and Claude’s Pool and again reading our book. Joanne is now on to “Making Money out of Property in South Africa. I bought it for her a while ago whilst in Exclusive books in Johannesburg. Andrew Golding does the Intro. I know Andrew very well. so I’m also looking forward to reading it. Irini bought some yummy steak and we skewered it and cooked it over the flames.

Saturday

Saturday we got up early and decided to go to a small secluded beach on the other side of Simonstown. It was so windy that it was impossible to sit on the beach. All the kids jumped into the sea and had a 20 minute dip. I for some reason was not up to it. We popped past the Noordhoek Village on the way to get some groceries and prawns to add to the crayfish braai. We all sat around the table and had a late breakfast. I fried up some mushrooms and the left over steak. It was nice to have the kid around the table.

Saturday evening we played games and danced into the night and new year. It’s gonna be a great year.

Sunday

We got up nice and late Sunday morning with a coffee and jumped into the pool. We washed up and said goodbye to Irini and Claude. We had a 10.30 appointment with Craig and Juan in Noordhoek. Craig made us some tea and Juan cut up the Panettone. It was great to spend social time with them in the beautiful home. We caught up about art and kids and the holiday season.

Craig suggested to pop into the new Noordhoek Art Gallery and we did. We met up with the owner Tuesday and had a good chat about business and the season. After that we headed home. The Tom Tom said 1 hours drive so we buckled in and took a nice slow drive home. I took out a nice fillet steak and got the pool warm while Joanne potted around.

Happy New Year

Until next week

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