I am going to let the photos speak for themselves in this post. A bit like Silent Sunday, but there are more than one. You may not know this but private beaches are banned in Barbados. If you are lucky enough to own a beach front property you are prohibited by law from blocking access to the beach for the public. But if this is not as good as private,
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.
Exploring
For Sale — one refurb project with incredible view
For Sale — One refurb project with incredible view I am letting you into a little secret in an effort to raise funds to help me do my refurb project. If you buy into this project you get visitation rites. It is a small beach front property on the very southern tip of Barbados, in an area called Surfers Point. Down where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and where the
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Musings
“How to leave Twitter: My Time as Queen of the Universe and Why This Must Stop” — Grace Dent. A review.
If you “don’t get” Twitter you must read this book. If you are on Twitter you must read this book. I downloaded it just before coming away (having had it on pre-order for weeks) as I love Grace’s tweets and thought it would be an easy beach read. Unfortunately once downloaded I couldn’t resist dipping into it and before I knew it I had read over half of it.
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Eating out in Barbados
It is easy to eat well in Barbados. And for the purposes of this post, by “well” I mean, expensively. It is also easy to eat well, plenty of fresh fish etc and locally grown fruit and veg but that isn’t really what people know Barbados for. Everybody who comes to Barbados has heard of The Cliff. Plenty of people who haven’t been here have heard of it. It
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Customer Service — Bajan Style
We spent most of Monday at the airport in Barbados, firstly waiting for friends, and then Mr B’s parents. Friends were in transit en route back from sailing round islands I had only ever dreamt of and were scheduled to have five hours on Barbados before their flight back to sunny Gatwick. Great, we thought, we can pick them up and go for lunch. Except local airlines don’t quite work
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Musings
Dear Appeal Court
Forgive me for writing to you in this way. This is not really what I set up this blog for, and nor is it how I expect you normally like to be approached. But if I might approach the bench I would like to say a few things. It would seem that in a week of news that changes every minute, from Murdoch and News International to murders in Norway,
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Flying with MummyBarrow
I love flying. I have been doing it since I was little and have been flying with my children since they were six weeks old. In fact as they were born in the Middle East both C and J had been on more planes than buses and trains put together by the time they were five. Our main family holiday for the past three years has been a pilgrimage to
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GrannyBarrow
Customer Service, and how to get it right
I am passionate about customer service. In fact more so than anything else really. It is what drives me at work and when I get shoddy customer service I often let companies know about it. Equally when it is oh so right, I also like companies to know. Good customer service is rare these days. In fact any kind of service is a rare thing. Ask where something is and
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Musings
Burning Out.
Before I can start this post I have to make a confession to you all and I expect to get some stick for this. I read the Daily Mail. There, I have said it. I don’t buy it, mind you. I have a quick stroll through online every morning just to see what is going on with people I don’t really care about. I should get therapy, I know, but
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Musings
Let’s get “enthused”
If I say vinegar, what do you think about? Sarsons on your chips? Yes me too. Until I came across Womersley Foods at the Real Food Festival when I was introduced to Rupert by Kate from Gower Cottage Brownies. Since 1979 this family run business in Yorkshire has been making foodies think differently about vinegars. Started by his parents, Rupert took over the running in 2009. Now it is well
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Musings
Random Acts of Kindness
Ever been on the receiving end of one? Hopefully you have carried one out before. Sure you have. Handed a car park ticket to the next person coming in because it still has an hour left to run? Held a door open for somebody? Helped somebody pick up all the money that has just fallen out of their purse all over the floor? I was reminded today of on
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Musings
Friendship — What is it?
How many friends do you have? Can you count them on one hand? Two hands? Both feet, too? Or are you thinking about your friends on Facebook and count them in the hundreds? What is a friend? The dictionary definition is: a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard. Well that sort of makes sense, so I guess the 200+ friends some of us have on