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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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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Musings
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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Musings
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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Musings
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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Musings
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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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,
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The Gallery — Planes, trains and automobiles
I love taking part in The Gallery because it makes me look at old pics to find something that fits the theme. It is easy to take a pic specifically for these posts but I like to use old ones, keeping current pics for Silent Sunday. So for this theme I give you: A helicopter. But not any old helicopter. One being flown by Mr B. I had
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Musings
The FA, John Terry and disrepute
I read with disgust an article saying that the FA was about to charge Ferdinand and Terry with bringing the game into disrepute. As you know, I care less than little for football. Except when Mr B has Man City on, of course — I join in then. However, the fact that the game’s footballing body does little to censure players sleeping with other players wives, going to prostitutes, having
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Musings
Going on holiday
Well we have made it. We are on holiday. To say I am relieved is an understatement as the stress leading up to a holiday is at an all time high. The organisation that goes into a holiday is near military proportions. Four months before Call kennels and get dog booked in. 5 minutes Two weeks before Ask Mr B to find passports and driving licences Buy mop heads that
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Musings
The Gallery — Food
<stifles the desire to sing in my best Oliver voice> Instantly I saw this week’s theme was “Food” I knew the pic I wanted to post. This one: This is the cheese board at our favourite restaurant in London, Le Beaujolais. In fact I have eight different varieties of this picture. I seem to insist on photographing it every time we visit. I love it. It is