Adjustments & occupations

Saturday Sundowners (photo by Jenny Mc.)

It's been a week of adjustments as the family started getting into the long Summer holidays and  Kathy, Flora, Gracie & whatever the hamsters are called (I'm boycotting them) settled into Carrot Bay life. Kathy has already played touch rugby, raced mountain bikes and visited the Willy T. In the brief time I saw her this morning, she still looked a bit shell-shocked after the latter  experience, which is not for the faint-hearted and involves racing around on dinghies to a marooned ship with various inebriated northern nations who give good impressions of being pirates and castaways.


Last week we also had our first little tweek of the hurricane season as a tropical wave went over us and we finally had some rain after about 3 months of nothing. Jasmine (the parrot) is pleased that the Croakie is back.

My new cushion covers

We had various farewell parties - a sad factor of island life at this time of the year, and most ex-pat families have already left for the Summer holidays. Everything is starting to close down and the island goes into hibernation mode. This really is my favourite time of the year here, apart from Christmas. 


The rest of the week was pretty uneventful, apart from having sundowners on our balcony on Saturday evening as I wanted to show off my new cushion covers.

We are still waiting for electricity and water in the bakery. Since it is now beyond a joke, Tyler is going to Occupy the Bakery as from today as we really cannot waste another week.  Maybe we can get Avaaz.Com to send out an email and drum up on some international support? I'll keep you posted.