Category: Main Blog Posts
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The tale of twenty bougainvilleas
1st September 2025 Happy Monday everyone. Monday always used to be carnage back in my working days. In Emergency departments Mondays saw the arrivals of all the DIY accidents over the weekend. All the people who did not go to A/E at the weekend because they perceived it would be too busy, also pitch up…
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The daily sweep
Sunday 31st August We have declared today a working day, because the gardener is coming and we want to work with him. He has been grafting in our absence, but this will be the first time we will work together. Yesterday we took the road less travelled up the east coast. We swam, snorkelled, swam,…
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March of the millipedes
30th August 2025 Two nights ago sitting on the patio, (as I write I’m being distracted by a tiny monkey trying to reach for a hog plum, wobbling on the branch it makes a comical sight anyway back to the story) ….. two nights ago, my white shirt seemed to attract a small grasshopper, gentle…
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Collections
24th August 2025 As I woke this morning, the sun just coming up, a gentle warm light from the east, the other side of the bed was empty. Before my gentle awaking was complete, the breeze picked up, almost immediately the noise of the trees and then the drumroll of the rain; a downpour, and…
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Geography lesson
12th August 2025 Hiking is one of my great pleasures in life. I haven’t yet nailed any appealing routes in Barbados, and the tropical climate means that early morning or late afternoon starts are essential – but I’m working on it. Our stint in temperate Blighty over recent months has encouraged me to fill my…
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History lesson
10th August 2025 Our nearest National Trust property in the UK is Dyrham Park, a few miles north of Bath. We feel a special connection with it for two reasons beyond proximity: in 2009 we planted an ash tree there in memory of my wonderful Dad, and in 2015 – the year we both turned…
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Picture this
7th August 2025 Well all our stuff is on its way. I think about it, I worry about it, off on an adventure without us to protect it. We don’t know exactly where it is, but I picture it, bumping along, all wrapped up in its cosy “export wrapping”, not quite at the port yet.…
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🎶 “I am sailing…”🎶
5th August 2025 We’re on a musical roll! Did anyone catch Rod Stewart’s recent Glastonbury set on TV? (I know some of our faithful followers were there in person) Hats off to the guy – still rockin’ at 80, no doubt boosted by his large entourage of 80s-era female backing singers 😎. His rendition of…
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🎶 “I like trucking and I like to truck…” 🎶
31st July 2025 The last three days have been a whirlwind of activity as we count down to our return to Barbados in less than three weeks’ time. We have had to shift things between properties as we prepare to load a shipping container next week. More of that in the next blog post. Exciting…
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All Revved up
20th June 2025 The eagle eyed of you avid blog followers, will have noted the comment by my cousin currently residing on the east coast of Australia regarding the “keeping” qualities of my father inherited from his father and grandfather. All three of them would turn their hands to all manner of practical things and…