Category: Main Blog Posts

  • Pool invasion

    15th January 2025 Unsurprisingly it’s not only us that’s delighted about the new pool. Our resident diver VIP swam early this morning and noticed company at the bottom of the pool. On retrieving his mask and the pool net he fished out this collection of unwelcome swimmers. Obviously trying to escape the efforts of the…

  • Control, create and celebrate

    14th January 2025 Once again the BBQ is lit and we sit here to reflect on another working day. Quite rightly the VIPs have been out exploring and have arrived home safely. We await their reports on scuba diving, garden visits and an early morning swim with the race horses. I never knew this was…

  • Welcome Winnie the Pool

    13th January 2025 Gosh I hope you don’t feel too abandoned it’s been a week since I once again left you in suspense mid pool report. The VIP’s have been here for a week now and we have loved having them. They have thrown themselves into the project and it’s been amazing having their company,…

  • Taking the Plunge

    5th January 2025 I’m sure many of you had already guessed ….. yes we took the plunge and decided to refurbish the pool. So we threw ourselves into choices. Taking the top tips for keeping the costs down and the construction timeframe as short as possible. As we are finding more and more, and it’s…

  • Winnie the Pool, where are you?

    4th January 2025 Way back then in October, an eon ago it feels like, in the sweltering heat we had a decision to make. Ideally the budget was set aside for solar panels … but politics politics. There is a monopoly in energy supply on the island. Barbados Light and Power supplies the whole island.…

  • Happy New Blog!

    3rd January 2025 Welcome back to Pollards Mill. It feels like a long 7-8 weeks since we left. A lot has happened in Blighty – much of it good, some not so good. Into the latter camp fall Storms Bert and Darragh. Bert confirmed our suspicions that we had a leaky roof – hopefully repaired…

  • The shipping forecast

    23rd November 2024 Well hello peeps … long time no speak …. We are still here, with lots to report. Since getting back to the UK however temporarily we have had the urgent button pushed down, in action mode, to get our heads round organising stuffing a shipping container to the gills. There is nothing…

  • Reacquainting ourselves

    12th November 2024 The sky above Heathrow airport 8th Nov 07.35, the plane circled slowly descending, air traffic control had us in the air a tad longer due to something or another. Out of my window seat I watched the approaching cloud, pillows of it, at least it was white not grey, it felt like…

  • 🎶 “Cricket, lovely cricket…” 🎶

    6th November 2024 The link at the end of the last post was to a jaunty old calypso number by Lord Beginner celebrating West Indies’ first ever Test victory in England in 1950 – at Lord’s, the home of cricket. Coming so soon after the 1948 arrival in Britain of HMT Empire Windrush, this sparked…

  • West coast vibes

    5th November 2024 We’re well and truly on the slippery slope to our homeward bound flight now and, as luck would have it, we have two engagements this week which drag us away from the grindstone and help us finish our initial few weeks here on a high. The first was today – a lovely…