PL26 – 27th June 2003.

Dear All,

Vicky and I are back in Cape Town for July and August, and it’s beautiful. It is so-called mid winter and well over 20 degrees, the sun has shone all day every day for the five days since I arrived back, and there’s not a breath of wind! I can’t believe it and of course it won’t last, but it is lovely while it does.

I have been in Cannes for the last 9 weeks and what a lot we have achieved in the time. Remember that our son Lao and his wife Katherine are there on a full time basis now – they live there, in a lovely rented home a few miles out of town, with their little dog from the SPCA called Jerry who rules the roost. They are very settled and happy.

PL25 – 7th June 2003.

Dear All,

Having created a Yahoo group for my mailing list with Lao’s help, partly for increased confidentiality and partly to save me time, I have lost some of the ability I had to exclude or add names at will for individual communications. So please bear with me, and if you are simply not interested in investing in apartments just now, but want to get my more ‘general interest’ property letters, just bin the attachment to this one. Apologies.

Vicky is back in Cape Town - arrived this morning - and I go back in two weeks. We will be back here again later in the summer on dates yet to be decided. Lao and Katherine will be here throughout. This is home to them now, and they are settling very happily with a lovely rented home and a little dog called Jerry. Their French is improving all the time, and our structure is taking a very natural course, with Me concentrating on finding and acquiring apartments, Katherine renovating and furnishing and decorating, Lao marketing, and looking after the website and apartments once they are ready, and Vicky keeping the accounting functions under control. And we all overlap as required.