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Welcome to MummyBarrow. I am a slightly bonkers mum of three, wife to one. Never really sitting still as there is always so much to do! This is my bit of the web to get things out of my head and where I hope to make you laugh or think. I don't really talk about my children too much as they can Google themselves but I do talk about family life. And juggling. Oh and food and drink. I talk about those a lot. So do pull up a chair, grab a biscuit and have a rummage.
Musings
The Secrets Between Us — Louise Douglas — A review
It won’t have escaped your attention this week if you follow me on Twitter, that I have had an ear infection. And this means I have not been sleeping or doing an awful lot apart from lying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. And thank God for Louise Douglas is all I can say. This book just about kept me sane. 500+ pages that I couldn’t
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Aloe Aloe
I just wanted to share this picture with you. This is aloe vera growing naturally and it is everywhere on Barbados. You simply cut off a leaf, slit it open and then slide the cool gel out. One of those leaves would probably be enough to fill 200ml tube back home. *Gregg Wallace voice* Sunburn relief doesn’t get much fresher than that.
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Friday night is fish fry night
Friday night fish fry is synonymous with Barbados. All over the island small gazebos pop up on a Friday afternoon and as the sun sets the locals start frying fish to sell to passers by. Oistins is the most famous on the island but for us that is too busy and too much like a tourist trap. We like ours to be a bit more “ethnic”.
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Germs are NOT evil
And so it was announced by Andrew Lansley this week that all children from 2 to 17 should be offered the flu vaccine. it would save lives, prevent children being hospitalised and save costs Really? This initiative is going to cost, apparently, £100Million a year. One hundred million Pounds a year. Spent by an already stretched NHS. Lansley and NHS reform has been much in the news recently
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50 Shades of Twitter Competition
There seem to be “50 Shades of….. ” cropping up everywhere this summer so I thought I would do my own: A list of 50 places from where I have tweeted but one location is bogus. Which one? Get it right and you could win a prize. In bed. Regularly. First thing in the morning, last thing at night: “Is it time to get up already?” In the library
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Cravendale – Home To A Cuppa
I have loved Cravendale ever since they did that advertising campaign about the cows wanting the milk back. Wasnt so sure about “cats with opposing thumbs” as they just freaked me out a little bit. (can you be a little bit freaked out? Is that like being a “little bit pregnant”?) And being such a huge fan of tea when I saw a linky challenge on Britmums (sponsored by Cravendale)
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The Gallery — Street Photography
This has been like homework this week. I have always dug out an old photo for Tara’s Gallery post each week but I don’t have anything remotely interesting for this category. So off I went with the camera this week to take a picture especially for this post. A picture that you will see on every street corner in Barbados. Men huddled round a table, playing dominoes or
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Mummy Meltdown
Come on we have all been there. That moment where you get tipped completely over the edge and become that screaming she-devil. I had such a moment last year. Whilst on holiday. A moment that amongst some of our friends is now the stuff of legend. We had all been griping at each other all day. The heat, the jetlag, the five of us in a car with
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The perfect way to spend a day in Barbados
Well it’s all about the sea out here isn’t it? The cool water of the Caribbean. You can either sit on the beach and watch it or you can get in it. And swim / jet ski / lie on a Catamaran. Or do what we do. Go on a glass bottomed boat and spent the day sitting in the sun drinking rum whilst you peer
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Earthworks Pottery Barbados
This fabulous pottery works sits up on a hill over looking the west coast of Barbados and has, in my opinion, one of the most spectacular views on the island. As it rained at the villa yesterday we headed to the hills to see if the weather would be any better, as it often is if you go inland and get higher, or go to the other side. As we
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Dear Tom and Kate
Ok so you are divorced. I am sorry about that. But can we now all ask the media to leave the two of you the hell alone? Tom, you hugging your daughter is not news. Kate, you taking your daughter shopping, is not news. Nor is Suri having a paddy fit because she couldn’t have a puppy. None of this is news. 50% of marriages end in divorce,