1 Mar 2009: Massage Reality Bites Hard

So we have a great bussiness, and yes we love it.

But just as an indication of what we deal with outside of the perecived idyllic existence heres 48 hours of massage reality

Sat morning:

After initially not setting up and moving apprnetice training to my home, the wind drops enough to change plans, setup, and change the training venue. I try load the blog, the internet goes down and my already full computer reminds me its time to get more memory to hold all these photos you see on the blog.

I rush to a website meeting to rescue a misunderstanding hiccup involving a 6K discrepancy. As we meet Katya slips a disc. I finish the meet, solve the problem, phone the laundry to ask them to wait for me, whilst I address Katyas back.

At that moment gale force winds hit and all hell breaks loose. I help Stef packup, whilst Katya lies contorted in the vehicle. We take her and her car home, fetch the washing from the lady who kindly waits outside the store which has by now closed.

Katya is fed, medicated and sorted with DVD entertainment, we return, pack and closeup

Sunday:

Anthea gets called to the office and so our morning breakfast together is interrupted. Without 2 staff availible (Panorea away), we have to make sure that we cover our normal day and a corporate event. The tide sends us very high on the beach, and probelms with parking cause trouble in getting equip to the beach

We set up, in a low sand flood-plain, and as we swop venues with clients waiting, a young lady dislocates her shoulder, and nearly passess out with pain. I stabilise her, Stef takes over at the corporate and I head back to the gazebo 15 minutes late for a client. We massage for 4 hours straight thereafter with no lunch break in 35 degree heat. My cell-phone breaks in a fall, a fact that will use hours of my monday in repair and replacement

After closing, I swim in the sea to cleanse and revitalise from my near anethetised state, I enjoy a pizza on the beach with Anthea before heading back to complete bussiness school assignments till midnight whilst falling asleep at the computer.

We love what we do.

But make no mistake, the beach is a dynamic enviroment unlike anything other.