Category: Main Blog Posts
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Monday madness
4th November 2024 Busy busy busy. Mondays always were a busy day. Back in the days when I was working it was the long list of 10minute appointments. These appointments filled very quickly … people worrying all weekend about something they have ignored for ages and then deciding to do something about it on Monday…
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Where it all began
3rd November 2024 I first landed at Grantley Adams International on St Valentine’s Day 2002. Nicola’s parents had very generously invited me over during their first long stint here post-retirement. An ice-cold Banks was cracked in the airport car park with the palms swaying in the warm tropical breeze. This might be all right, I…
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Buying and Selling
1st November 2024 Well mostly looking and lurking. I have not bought or sold anything YET. I’ve signed up to all manner of groups on FB. You would not believe the amount available. Bajan antiques, Buy and sell Barbados, Barbados marketplace etc. Some you have to join with a reason and some are a free…
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Vroom vroom
29th October 2024 Another bonkers day in paradise. During an al fresco dawn yoga session rudely interrupted by a torrential downpour (rainy season innit) I scuttled indoors to find water pooling on the kitchen counter…again. This time I finally found the source – it’s running down the wall and dribbling out of the bottom of…
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Wedding bells
29th October 2024 Dah dah de dah, dah dah de dah, or something along those lines, accompanied by banging organ notes or more likely steel pan, and down she floats, a figure hugging white dress, orange flip flops and a huge foliage bouquet with bird of paradise blooms. Near the Mill waits the groom. Down…
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Plantation View
28th October 2024 Time is really ticking on. We have now been the proud owners of a Barbados plantation house for 4 weeks. We have some VIP guests coming to stay in our one bedroom cottage in the new year. We spent some time last week doing an inventory of both cottages but today was…
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Water water everywhere
27th October 2024 WordPress must be having a senior moment or maybe it’s me but it’s decided that my earrings look better large, I can’t seem to shrink the photo today so you have me in large font … eeek. We have had a lot of rain, it is the rainy season after all. It…
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Radio Silence
25th October 2024Let’s put it this way. Yesterday was NOT a hammock day. We were beset by problem after problem and at 4.33pm with a big harrumph we dived into the pool, declared a strike, downed tools and headed to Le Shack 10 minutes down the road for some grub. We had never been there…
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Mosi-oa-Tunya
23rd October 2024 Anyone lucky enough to travel to either Zimbabwe or Zambia is likely to have visited the ‘Smoke that Thunders’ – the magnificent Victoria Falls, where the mighty Zambezi topples over a sheer cliff into the gorge below. In full spate it’s something else – anyone in the immediate vicinity is drenched in…