My very first time

Don't know if anyone will ever read this, but here goes anyway. My first entry. Feels good!

Ok, so some intro. I live somewhere out there in the country. Close enough to Cape Town to feel the beat, but far enough away to smell the fresh air and look at the lovely Lillies in our garden. My husband and I moved out here, after a longish stint in England, almost two years ago. We bought our guest house and pub on a whim while on a camping holiday after dreaming about living in the country for as long as we've known eachother.

I think we thought it would be easy - coming back and all. It's been a journey of sorts. We've learnt alot. Our small B&B is still not profitable and the pub for which we waited forever to get licensed and all has proven not to be worth it at all. We live in a quiet village which is just not ready for tourism yet. Don't know if it ever will be. The tourism associations are so useless and the truth is that people either love it or hate it out here - and you just don't know which until they get here.

Us, we can spend forever on the front stoep watching the sky change colour, the sun go down and the bright stars come up and twinkle in the sky. The season's changing now so it's a delight to see the fields turn green. Slowly, but surely life is coming back to the earth. In summer everything is sand coloured and brown. Some people call it golden, but you have to be in the right mood to accept that. Ok, so until next time...