Category: Main Blog Posts
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…