For the weeksCape Town is the office.

Four desks, each in its own corner of the house, and fibre throughout. Two look into the garden, one sits under the stair, and one is a proper study with a door you can close.

That is the difference between a holiday house and a house you can actually live in for a season: four people can work at the same time without sitting on top of each other, and the calls do not collide. Little Rock has a fifth desk, with the ocean in front of it, for whoever has to work while the others are at the pool.