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  • Lonely Planet

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    19th June 2025 Those two words have a special place in the heart of every independent traveller of a certain vintage. Nicola and I are among many who, from a tender age, hoisted our backpacks and hit the road in search of adventure with one of this publisher’s travel guides tucked under our arm. Overnight…

  • Mice and the Mechanics

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    15th June 2025 Nicola’s a keeper (in more ways than one 😉). I’m definitely a chucker. I reckon it’s a reaction to my upbringing. During the 55 years my mother lived in our family home, it became increasingly cluttered. Eventually the front room wouldn’t have looked out of place on ‘The Hoarder Next Door’ or…

  • A keeper of things

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    14th June 2025 My father was very “handy”, always an engineer he would always have a go at fixing this, making that, dismantling the other to see if it could be used for something. This started at an early age. The contents of the garage were fascinating and horrifying in equal measures. Lengths of wood…

  • Happy holidays

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    10th June 2025 An odd title for a post after half term, you might think – but what better time to start thinking about your next break than just after the end of the last one? Something to look forward to! Our one bedroom apartment (Plantation View) is available for holiday lets from 23 August.…

  • The road less travelled

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    9th June 2025 This journey that I am on, is new to me. In the process of clearing out my parents’ house, our family home for over 40yrs, I am unearthing history. My history. A lot of history. It’s a tough job but what amazing history. They kept everything. I have had this blog post…

  • The night watchman (or the frog blog)

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    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…

  • AC DC

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    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…

  • Tap dance

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    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…

  • The Sistine Chattel

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    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…

  • Pimp my ride

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    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…