Using his experience of a small fire after a garden clearance operation at The Bell House Hotel in Sutton Benger Jeff is now having daily conflagrations which should last for at least another two weeks- if he doesn't set fire to the entire bay in the meantime. Jeff is practising a long held believe that man makes fire!
The lot is beginning to take shape and we are pleased about how much usable land we will have once the excavations begin.

The weather continues to be warm and sunny during the day and cooler at night. There has been very little rain but the mosquito season is here and they are beginning to bite so we are getting used to spraying ourselves for the mossie hour between 6pm and 7pm and also up on the lot if we are tramping through the undergrowth.

We have met several people who have time share houses and who come for the Christmas/ January period .They have been doing so for donkey's years and are very much part of the community. They are now beginning to leave, so it is a time of 'farewells and see you next years'. We had the first of the farewell parties last night for two Norwegians, next week its the Canadians' turn. The sailors come and go, only stopping for a few nights in Marigot so we don't get to know too many of them unless they moor along side us. Some of the bigger yachts stay longer and we are already beginning to collect e mail addresses and promises of warm welcomes in their own countries, wherever that may be.