Author: TrickyAndNIcky
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Little wins, big wins
7th October 2024 We have clean clothes, air dried in the wonderful breezes. The washing machine works and we have restrung the rotating clothes airer and removed the rusting, friable, yellowing line. 💪 That in itself is a win which ever way you look at it. I’m sure you have no interest in our washing…
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The Bajan Cherry
6th October 2024 Turns out we have two trees in the garden and they are laden. I pop one in my mouth, slightly tart but a very distinctive flavour. I am immediately transported to North Star, the house my grandfather built on the northern coast of Jamaica. I’m probably about 6 or 7. I’m sitting…
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Bin Day!
6th October 2024 …which is actually a Sunday so no hope of a collection but I gotta make an early start on manoeuvring the bin up the access road. As the late great Bon Scott said, “It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll”: Time for a breather halfway: Ta-daaaah!
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Rubbish and recycling
5th October 2024 I know not everyone would do it but when we sold the Welsh cottage I left the new owner a little welcome letter …. “This is how the oven works, these are your new neighbours, we hope you will be happy here etc etc but importantly your rubbish is collected on a…
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‘My Saturday’
5th October 2024 That’s the title of an unintentionally amusing weekly feature in the magazine section of the Daily Telegraph. Yes, guilty as charged – and no excuse that I have free access. Not that I’ve had a moment to read the paper in the last few days! Anyway – for the uninitiated, this piece…
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The postie has found us
4th October 2024 That first night, our first night, what an adventure …. here we were in our new home, swimming in the pool after dark, our suitcases unopened in the hall, bats swooping down over the water, frogs going ballistic, fireflies twinkling away in the bamboo … it really was magic. We managed to…