Pack our bags and go.

After a couple of years in the South African wilderness, with the children in boarding school, we moved north to Rustenburg, green and fertile. The children adapted well to school and we had just settled in and I was enjoying a bit of golf when the price of platinum fell and all those who had trekked in on the boom, trekked out again. The mining business is always uncertain but that place was like traffic lights. Some had made those moves several times and the most far sighted businessman was an old employee who bought a removal van. We moved to Johannesburg, beds, books and cats. There was a bit of a silver lining because my manager's wife friend was also in Johannesburg and we had Christmas with them and their family, grannies, grandads, uncles and aunts under the trees at the side of the pool.

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