Author: TrickyAndNIcky
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The night watchman (or the frog blog)
15th April 2025 You will have noticed the dwindling number of posts recently. Eagle-eyed readers may have twigged from the last one that we have crossed the Atlantic once more and are back in Blighty after a whirlwind three months on ‘the Rock’. It was amazing having so many wonderful visitors, every one of them…
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AC DC
2nd April 2025 The electric toothbrush is not happy, nor indeed am I. Not quite a “highway to hell” but I’m getting myself tied up in cable knots. The UK toothbrush we brought with us complete with shaving socket adapter never did charge in its warmer home because we forgot the charging stand. Luckily Massy…
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Tap dance
22nd March 2025 Yes we have been silent AGAIN… soz… but nevertheless things have been moving along and once again we have much to report. I’m sure you will remember from “Treasure” way back in October, the beautiful Earthworks sink that was surrounded by tiles crafted in the 1970’s and even then were outdated and…
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The Sistine Chattel
22nd March 2025 ’Chattel houses’ are quintessentially Bajan. You see them everywhere on the island. Usually modest in size, they’re made of wood, and rest on stone or concrete footings. They can be transported from place to place. Brings a whole new meaning to ‘moving home’. This mobility has more in common with furniture and…
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Pimp my ride
8th March 2025 Chatting with some cruise passengers this morning and seeing their photos of St Lucia reminds me of our first visit there in 2008. This stunning island, whimsically called ‘the Helen of the West Indies’ (as in of Troy) features a World Heritage site in Soufriere Bay, the home of the jaw-dropping Pitons…
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Bat out of hell
5th March 2025 I know I’m going to get berated, told off, chastised. I know they are amazing for our ecology, I know they eat LOADS of mosquitoes and all other incredible qualities buuuuut I just don’t like them. It’s irrational … they have amazing echolocation and they are not going to get tangled up…
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Can you make a blog post out of a roti skin?
3rd March 2025 That sounds like a riddle. I’ve never been to Dubai but know of its reputation for air conditioned malls. I reckon Barbados could give it a run for its money. A little less glitzy, perhaps – but there are loads of them. Our frequent forays up and down the island plundering the…
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Gold Cup
1st March 2025 Pollards is quiet… well apart for the spinning of the washing machine … we have a backlog, but it’s just the two of us again. My brother is flying back tonight. We are imposing a 5day detox and back to the grindstone tomorrow. HOWEVER….before that today we had a day at the…
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We gathering
1st March 2025 Well actually it started two weeks ago … the gathering ….. I originally started this blog on the 24th February a week after the first arrivals but have been a bit lost for words, not necessarily writers block but just dealing with a lot of different emotions and words had failed me.…
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Day pass
15th February 2025 Having been reminded yesterday that Google thinks Pollards Mill is a resort hotel, we have decided to give ourselves a day pass. We arranged with the hotel management to have clean sheets and after a comparative lie in headed down to the breakfast buffet. We were not the first guests down to…