It’s been a good week. Excavation has continued, as has the pool. We no longer have to balance on planks of wood to get to the front door. We ran out of wood for the flooring on the ground floor, which was disappointing as it is hard to get hold of and it looks like we have been delivered less than we had paid for. Jeff is now on an Island search for seventy planks to complete the task. The painter has started to do some of the final coats of paint in the bedroom and it is looking very good.

The dining room has doors and a floor but alas no windows, the man says maybe next week!

Fiona arrived on Tuesday and immediately renewed friendships with the people in Marigot. We spent her first night at Chateau Mygo and had a good meal whilst listening to the local band. She has fallen totally in love with Foxy and they spend a lot of time cuddled up together. We have walked up to the house each day and as a result of Foxy playing in the cement heap she needs a bath before she can get back onto the boat.

The weather is hot and sunny mostly with the odd shower, normally first thing in the morning. Yesterday Fi and I went on Richards boat with his daughter and her friends. We headed off down the coast. The first place we picked to anchor had too much swell so we ended up at the Pitons and had lunch in a beach side restaurant, fresh Dorado with local vegetables- delicious. Jeff and I went out with the same guy last Sunday. He has a very sleek 45foot Sea Ray, motorboat. Its great for a day out like and as much fun as sailing, just different. We took them all out sailing on Saturday, just three miles down the coast to Anse Cochon, picked up a buoy and then dinghyed in for lunch. It was a perfect Caribbean day, sunny with a warm breeze. We had pre-lunch Pimm’s and afternoon tea with brownies and lunched on freshly grilled mahi mahi. Fi is nipping over to Barbados on Tuesday to visit her boyfriend Steve, who comes from there; it is only a twenty minute flight. He will probably accompany her when she returns on Thursday.

I have been meaning to get my hair cut for ages. I think I have been putting it off because the hairdressers here are really bad. This morning I got to the end of my tether with my shaggy looks so Fi and I set about doing a home haircut, she did the back and I did the front The results are not bad at all, a great improvement on the mop I had been sporting and certainly as good as anything I have had done here. I was starting to look like Foxy!

It can be quite hard for a skipper to concentrate when the foredeck is full of sweet young things.

Jeff and Fi relaxing at Ti Kaye restaurant, Anse Cochon.