Category: Main Blog Posts
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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…
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Power pon roof
14th February 2025 During the VIPs stay we were struggling to get hot water in the showers, well it was patchy to say the least. Actually lukewarm in this climate is actually very refreshing. Those of you that have followed all our shenanigans will recall the leaking hot water tank and the muddy Victoria Falls…
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Dis and dat
13th February 2025 It feels like there isn’t much of interest to keep our loyal readers entertained at the moment, though we’re as busy as ever. I do need to rectify an oversight from last Friday – a picture of the onion working its magic on my centipede sting! And of course you all want…
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Shameless plug
8th February 2025 We’ve recently posted this on Facebook so saw no harm in repeating it here for the benefit of blog readers who may not have seen it: So…after very positive feedback we have decided to make our one bedroom apartment (Plantation View) available for holiday lets to friends and contacts until the end…
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Pollards in Bloom
7th February 2025 The beauty of the garden continues to thrill me. I’m still finding out what everything is. Google lens is fantastic. So here is a sample of what’s flowering at the moment. Hibiscus Bougainvillea Hummingbird food aka Firecracker and Duranta (purple) Allamanda and Spider Lilly The wonderful Plumbago hedge Not in bloom ……