Give Me a Hand continues several years later. The six oldest kids are 20, the youngest triplets are 17 and will be 18 when anything interesting happens.
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Hi I'm April, my sister Jane and I are Melanies twins. Roz's twins are Jason and Beth while Jacqui's pair are David and Abbey. Roz's younger twins are Paula and Julie and Mel's triplets are Daisy, Peter and Sally. And we all live together as one big happy family. Yeah, Right! Three boys with eight girls means there's the usual teenage 'interactions' multiplied by a significant factor. Fortunately our parents made an interesting building decision a while ago and built a 'bunk-house' for all us kids. Beside the main house but far enough away so we have to sort out our own problems. Don't have many, actually, as the bathroom has four of everything so there isn't a big queue, we're pretty good at sharing showers, it's fun washing each other. Oh yes, better mention that around home we are all always naked, our dad started that and we've carried on the tradition.
A year ago we buried Grandma James, she was Roz and Jacqui's mum but we all looked to her as our grandma. I just reread Mel's story of how Grandma got involved with this extended family and I couldn't help smiling, she was always able to surprise us with her dry humour.
Mum and Dad are still doing websites while Roz and Jacqui are now running the James farm with David, Abbey and Jason doing a lot of the work. Beth has started University doing Hotel Management and I'm in my final year of a Business degree. Paula and Julie are both doing Chef courses. The triplets have just finished High School and are trying to work out what they want to do.
In fact most of us were working away without any sort of long term goals, until mum came out one lunchtime and,
"You'll never guess who I've been asked to do a website for,, the River City Nudist Club"
Well that started a bit of a tease
"Did you have the webcam on when they contacted you?" (mum always works nude)
etc, etc, until David spoke up
"That...'s Interesting"
Now when David speaks, EVERYONE listens. He's the quiet one in this family but he's got the sort of mind... Well, you've heard of lateral thinking with multiple tracks, he's like grand central station where all those tracks come together and one little comment can trigger absolutely brilliant ideas.
He looked slowly around at us all, obviously deep in thought, almost as though he was analysing us.
"We have over two thousand acres including a fifteen acre lake and 300 acres of forest, April's doing Business Management, Beths doing Hotel Management, Paula and Julie are doing Catering, we all live nude. Hm... how about we open our own Nudist Resort. We're all sexually active, we could make it one of those hedonistic places where sex is allowable."
Dead silence... then other brains started catching up
"What about...noo that would work"
"Could we...yeah, thats ok"
Little work got done that afternoon, little planned work that is. Lots of planning work though. This was going to be the family business to end all family businesses, we'd have people wanting to be adopted!.
Every question that came up, there was a ready answer, mostly David but the rest of us weren't dummies in our fields. Dinner was finger food as ideas kept enhancing the core idea. After dinner I started typing up "The Business Plan". Grandma Jane's Hedonist Resort. We decided on the name to remember a lady who LOVED getting her pussy shaved every day and really got quite vocal during the 'quality checks'. Daily shaves were going to be a part of the hedonist experience as a special feature.
There are so many little factors and features that we wanted to include. We decided to have homegrown produce for all meals so we had to plan a cropping schedule, Daisy and Peter took that on. The lake had a couple of small islands, so we had to build some cabanas there and get canoes and boats. The list went on and on. The website was probably the easiest, and after mum did such a good job with the Nudist clubs one we had easy access to advertising.
The hardest was sorting out accomodation cabins. We decided to keep them simple sleeping rooms and have a central shower block until David and Beth came in from the hot-tub and made it clear that every cabin needed a hot-tub experience. We decided to do twin cabins with a shared bathroom between them. Privacy was not on our agenda.
I don't know what Grandma would have thought of some of our plans but we'll see what our guests think when we get started.
We decided to use the US idea of 'Spring Break' as our platform to open our resort so we did a lot of promotion among New Zealands six universities (SIX universities not SEX universities for you dirty minded readers) and timed our opening for straight after final exams. Fully booked - One Hundred and Fifty registrations! Maybe they are sex universities after all.
It was bedlam with everyone arriving but with such a large family we manged to have someone in the right place at the right time. First activity was dinner. Paula and Julie in charge had them eating out of their hands, (no, we weren't short of plates!) excellent food, home grown just adds to the taste.