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6th September 2025 It’s a day off, nevertheless we started the day, not with a lie in, but a job. “We better get one of the pricey but only remaining showers on the island before they all sell out”. So we were knocking on the tile shop’s door at opening time. Result, they had kept…

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…

5th September 2025 Demolition day was in the diary for today but the demo man finished his job early and, to be fair, with our nod of approval turned up yesterday with his bag of tools. Big tools, with electric cables , heavy shafts and pointy ends. They looked dangerous and perfectly designed for the…

3rd September 2025 We LOVE avocados. It’s touch and go with some of them, you buy them rock hard, store them in the bowl with bananas and patiently wait for the creamy flesh to slowly soften. That gentle pressure on the skin, you feel the give and bang …..“Eat me NOW!!!!”…… It talks to you.…

2nd September 2025 Your correspondent, silent since our return to Barbados a couple of weeks ago, has been stirred from his literary slumber by chagrin at his co-worker’s last blog post. Whilst I appreciated being awarded the title of second under-gardener, I felt that my efforts on Sunday were underplayed. Now don’t get me wrong…

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…

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,…

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…

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…