Time for a change

I'm back in London and, more importantly, with Debrah. We have much to sort out and it's just very difficult to do it when we are sat in different countries.

Debrah has been offered a fantastic opportunity with the design agency that she has been working with for the past couple of years - an opportunity that is too good to turn down - so naturally she hasn't.

However, it means that she will have much less flexibility and, therefore, will not be able to fly out to France every weekend. It was too much for her to continue doing so anyway - so this is a natural extension of a process of change that was already in motion.

If we are to see each other at all then I need to spend a lot more time in the UK which means that we need to completely change the way that we run the business in France - it will have to be a lot less hands-on from my side, so that is what we are now putting in place for the foreseeable future.

I have already arranged for local friends and contacts to manage the suites when I'm not there over the course of these two weeks - if anyone wants to come at short notice - so things are already moving along.

It had to change anyway. We have been frustrated in our attempts to expand the business and it doesn't generate enough for the two of us as it stands - so we need to look at it another way and this has helped focus us on how we are going to do that.