Exploring

Thinking of playing Royal Westmoreland Golf Course?

. If you are spending time in Barbados and looking to play golf then you really should be thinking about playing Royal Westmoreland .   It is an opportunity you can’t miss.   Well you can but it would be a real shame.  Many have declared it the best golf course on Barbados. Last time Mr B was playing Royal Westmoreland he took notes of each tee and took photos

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A new dream property

.   On Monday night last week we had a barbecue on the beach in Holetown, Barbados.   The setting couldn’t have been more perfect.  Sunset.  A deserted beach.   The Caribbean Sea gently lapping onto the sand.   Friends.  Rum punch.   Fish we had caught the day before, served with barbecued butternut squash. It couldn’t have been a more perfect spot. Even though it was in front of

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My Week — July 26th

. I realised this week that I need to really practice my holiday skills.   I don’t mean that as an excuse to take more holidays, I mean it because I don’t find holidays relaxing and that is just plain wrong.   First of all I don’t sleep.  So I have been awake pretty much every morning at 3am.   Some days I have been working but on my days

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The St James Church Holetown Barbados

. This little church close to the Folkestone Marine Park in Holetown is quiet and unassuming yet steeped in history, well it would be, it stands on ground that was consecrated in the 1600s.   It is on an area known as “God’s Acre” and is where the first settlers arrive at around the same time.   And as they passed away man of them are buried in the graveyard

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Musings

The Gallery — Home Comforts

. Another great theme for The Gallery this week:  Home Comforts.   Thoughts of the one thing that that we cannot live without.  Of course I have lots of things I think I cannot live without, but obviously I can as they are all at home.  And well, I am not.  I am thousands of miles away on holiday.   Without them. Our tea maker.   The waffle maker.  Our

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My Week — July 19th

. Well where has that week gone?!  Mind you weeks when you are on holiday always tend to go faster than when you are at home, don’t they?  We might be away on holiday but blimey it has been a busy week.   But what have you all been up to?  Do tell me! For us Sunday was a family day and fabulous.  Caity and Dan have moved in to

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Bajan Fish Markets

.   Along every coast road in Barbados there is a fish market.   It might be an one governed by the Island’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, or it could be a table at the end of somebody’s drive.  Either way, you know it is going some of the best fish you have ever tasted, zero airmiles, and caught within the past 24 hours. I am not a huge

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The Gallery — Time

/   Time.  The one thing we can’t buy that I really wish we could.   It is possibly the most important commodity.   Who wouldn’t want to buy more time? As you may have guessed I have been pondering time and life in general a lot recently.   Thinking I need to spend more time doing certain things, less time doing others.   I have also been thinking about

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Your child could win win a role at the SSE Women’s FA Cup Final

.   A blog title that does that says on the tin really. I never thought I would see the day where I became involved in way shape or form with football, but thanks to that blog, it is happening more and more. First of all there was being in Africa talking to lads in a slum about the Premier League Then we got to have the actual FA Cup

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My Week — 12th July

. This picture, taken this week, made me laugh so I am sharing.  We had been to Sainsburys and Ellie ended up carrying all the beer, and I had the bags of food.   Nothing like making your teen look like an alcoholic to cement your nomination for Mother of The Year. Thank you so much for reading and  commenting on these posts and to all the bloggers who have

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Seven years ago

. Seven years ago today the above was happening.  I know this thanks to Timehop, a handy app that tells you what you were up to in various points in history thanks to stuff you shared on Facebook / Instagram or Twitter. Seven years ago today the first of Mr B’s stag dos in London. There was another one in Fleet.   Where I had my hen do.   And

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