The best laid plans…

No doubt many of you enjoy having a nicely laid out plan for the week ahead – I certainly do. Recently I had just such a week lined up. I was going to put a day aside to get some assessment work completed for level 2 portfolios. I also needed to go through and check out a couple of new plantations to make sure everything was OK. There were some seats to check, and some to move, and on top of that, I was sure the Memsaab would have a few jobs for me. It was very relaxed; I had no clients to worry about, so I could lie in until 5am before checking my computer for emails – bliss.

Then everything changed. The first email of the morning was from Gavin, a forest manager I work with.