5th September 2025
I can’t let that date slip by without wishing a happy heavenly birthday to the King of Rock, who would have been 79 today. Raise a glass to the immortal Freddie Mercury! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳👏👏👏👏👏
A quick rewind to last night at Kensington Oval. Barbados Royals v Guyana Amazon Warriors. The return of the vuvuzela. It was lively! Good times 😎
Today was set to be bittersweet. We would say goodbye to this beauty.
Unfortunately it was too dangerous and risky to keep, its trunk being only inches from the pool chattel house:
It was growing fast, heavily laden with coconuts and swayed alarmingly in the breeze. We sometimes get very high winds here and simply couldn’t take the chance of it coming down and reducing the building to matchwood. Time to go 😢…
The tree gang arrives. A friendly bunch (groan). Before anyone can say “Health and Safety” the lead guy is shinning up the trunk like the proverbial:
Next step: fire up the chainsaw, leave it running, rope to waist, climb higher:
The first coconuts are sawn off and lowered by rope. Quite rightly the team gets first dibs (note cutlass as mentioned in my last post):
We’re given a jug full of the sweetest, freshest coconut water from our own tree. You have to pinch yourself sometimes.
Nuts and foliage all gone, the descent begins, sawing off the trunk in three foot sections:
Until:
The End 🥥 ❤️ 🌴
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