Did  you know that Amway is "wam" in Pig Latin..

Neither did I....

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We had the most horrendous storm tonight. Loads of thunder, lightening and continual rain lashing down on the roof. The storm was right over the house about 9pm and seemed to last for ages.  The sheet lightening lit up the whole sky with the thunder rumbling not too far away as loudly as it possibly could.


{Twas a dark and stormy night}


{Night sky illuminating up by the sheet lightening!}

I'm sat here typing this up in bed, when there was a loud crack of thunder, directly over head and the power has just gone out. Whether the electricity company switched off the power due to the storm or whether the power went off due to the storm is anyone's guess at the moment. But it's pitch black darkness, apart from the glare of the laptop screen. All street lights have gone out as well.

The electricity came back on after about 10 minutes of being in torch/candle light. All the dogs were scared of the lightening and thunder and saturated from the rain, so we brought them into the house. Dried them off and had a cup of tea (the humans, not the dogs!! Although the dogs do like tea as well.)

Even now, 90 minutes later, the storm is still raging outside. The distance between the lightening and the thunder is becoming greater and it seems to have moved away, probably westwards.



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Finally managed to get all five dogs together...while they were all eating - apart from Kira, who decides that she has to eat faster than the other four!

Over the past few months, the weather over here hasn't been what it should normally be. We should be well into the dry season complete with hardly having any substantial rainfall and very hot temperatures - but it hasn't. We've had a number of days of rain, temperatures have got up to about 82F.

It's also coming up to that time of the year again, where we find out how bad/or good the hurricane season is going to be this year. According to the NOAA, they say that "it's going to be a 50 percent probability of a near-normal season". One question I'd like them to answer - Define normal??????

From their information and Colorado State Uni, there's going to be about 6 hurricanes to hit the region this year (compared to 8 hurricanes and 16 tropical storms last year)

Further info can be found here on BBC Caribbean

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It does look like something that is not from this planet, but it is only my dog, Kira, wearing a rather fetching attachment to her collar.

She had an operation at the vets on Saturday, and to stop her from scratching or pulling out her stitches, this was the only solution that we came up with. This was about the third attempt, as the previous two she got off in a matter of minutes.

So how did we make Kira into an Alien Dog? Loads of imagination, duct tape, a plastic plate, scissors, and some nice pink ribbon.



Hopefully, this should last until she goes back to the vets on Saturday.

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There we were, in a building supplies store after some chicken wire to hopefully stop the dogs getting into the veggie patch.

After coming across very sarcasic (my middle name) and disturbing about three staff members from their personal conversation and telling them that a customer needed assistance (i.e. Me!!!), I eventually said to the staff member that I required 2 yards of chicken wire.
His response "We only sell it by the foot". He didn't suggest anything about calculating feet into yards, so that he could satisfy his customer. No...it was a case that I had to work out that there are 3 feet to a yard, therefore, I'd need 6 foot. This is basic arithmetic calculations that even a 12 year old should be able to do, so a grown man in his twenties should have no problem with metric conversions!!

After all that - I noticed that he was measuring the chicken wire out with a metre rule......go figure!

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As you fellow women out there know, that particular time of the month comes around and you feel really really crappy - mood swings, stomach cramps, bloating, fatigue, headaches, backache, sideache, whatever ache. You reach for whatever pain relief you can find and get hold of to help those symptoms of PMS. Sorry guys, but this is a girlie thing, but please keep reading, you might actually learn something - and it might make you laugh later on.

So, through the power of television adverts, I saw this new over-the-counter tablets called Midol Menstrual Complete, that alleviates these problems, and the uncanny thing is, it's available over here as well (shock, horror, faints in disbelief!!). So I bought a packet. This industry is worth tens of thousands, if not millions of dollars trying to aid women through those difficult days each month.

Being of the inquisitive mind, I looked on the associated website and came across the following instructions and the point that struck me was under the heading "Warnings" and it states "Ask a doctor before use if you have.....difficulty in urination due to enlargement of the prostate gland" (go on, go and see for yourself --> {Link here})

Erm...if the people who wrote this web page are reading this (and that also includes the people that verified and proofed the page as well) - I think you really really really REALLY need to go back and look over your biology notes...women do not have a prostate gland!!! (not that i'm being sarcastic or anything as thats the lowest form of wit and I won't stoop that low....)

This also begs the question - What man in his right mind would take PMS tablets?

What is the world coming to???

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Hi! Yes, it's me again.

Things have been a bit...how can i describe it...a world-turning upside-down feeling that you don't know which way you are going or which decision or direction is the best. To use a scuba-diving analogy, it's like being 50 feet underwater, upside down with all your expelled air-bubbles coming in front of your mask and you can't tell which is up or down.

If that sounds confusing to you, that's whats been happening over here for the past couple of months!

I can see the light getting closer and closer at the end of the tunnel. I've righted myself and now feel as though i'm going back up to the surface - maybe i'm still upside-down, but i'm getting there.

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Yes, I know. I haven't been keeping up with letting you all know about my shenanigans recently.
I can't believe how time is flying by so fast, that it feels as though it's lifting me up and swirling me around and I don't have time to stop and think.

Too much has been going on, and having too much stress with one thing or another.

But once I've got something more interesting to say, I will be back!

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I treated my mum to an early (well, very early!) birthday treat and also a slight treat for myself as well. Just to do something different from the mundane on a day off - so, we went horse riding at Morne Coubaril Estate just south of Soufriere and not far from the Sulphur Springs. We only did the one-hour ride, which is just around the 200+ acre plantation, but they also do a two-hour ride, which also takes in the Sulphur Springs as well.

My mum didn't know what we were doing, so was pleasantly surprised as to the...er...surprise! Even though we only stayed on the plantation itself, the views looking out towards Soufriere Bay, with the blue sea glistening and the brightness of the white yachts were gorgeous. Also the views towards the Pitons - Petit Piton moreso, were also fantastic. The guide - Bill - was brilliant during the whole time, mum's horse (Rusty) was slower and kept back from us, so we had to wait. Each time we did this, my horse (Rose) decided she wanted to eat grass. Even when we were walking, she wanted to stop and eat grass.

The route that we took around the plantation, which took in replicas of carib huts, cocoa bean processing - where they also make a cocoa vinegar, which smells and looks alot like balsamic, a sugar cane crusher, various plants and trees including tamarind. The terrain started off with going up a slight incline, as the horse is doing all the hard work, you, as the rider have to lean forward in the saddle. All the memories of horse-riding lessons that I had when I was 10 years old came back to me - how to sit in the saddle, holding the reins, keeping my heels down, turning the horse. The one slightly-scary point came at the end as we were walking back to the stables. Rose - my horse - decided she wanted to trot, then she decided that she wanted to get back to the stables quicker, so we went into a canter, including going right through the stables and stopping - slightly abruptly for my liking - at her stall.

It was so nice to get back into the saddle and maybe we'll attempt the 2 hour ride next time!





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