May! What can we say, busy, busy, busy. It was great fun but back to back visits have left us with expanding girths, shadows under our eyes and creaking livers. We are hoping for a quiet hurricane season in more ways than one.
Its been a busy moth season with nightly visitors.
We have found new places to visit, one being The Pink Plantation House, an old restored Creole house overlooking Castries. It specialises in traditional Lucian cooking and is fabulous.
Fi and Ben arrived in time for the 20/20 cricket world cup and we had a great day out watching England beat New Zealand. I love watching cricket in the West Indies, it is so colourful, noisy and humorous and the game is incidental. We got a fast boat up from Marigot, avoiding the traffic and the need for a named driver.
When we went quad biking with Fi and Ben we picked up loads of cashew nuts. This was to be this month’s craft experience. First you have to dry them in the sun all day, and then on an open fire you have to roast them, all the time avoiding the hissing, spitting caustic fumes and splatters of a very nasty irritant that oozes out of them. Once cooled, you crack them open to find the nut, wearing gloves so as not to get said stingy irritant on hands. It can only be done manually, is laborious, messy and fiddly, so now we know why cashews are so expensive and shall treat them with much more reverence the next time we BUY a packet!
This is the cashew pear which bears one nut, hanging from the end of the fruit,which means from one tree you would only get one or two packets of nuts. 
We took Wine Down out of the country for her six monthly trip; to Martinique this time. We had hoped for a trip through the southern Islands but the gods were against us as the house started to fall apart – TV’s, loos and fridges and once they were all fixed we were short of time. Good supermarket shopping, moules and red wine more than made up for it and we had a great sail there and back.
In the following photos you get a glimpse of how we spent our time .
After the drought the garden went into over drive by producing an abundance of colour and growth. We have spent the past few days trying to instil some order into a burgeoning jungle.
Our friend Maggie is now employed by Jalousie to sell their amazing new development. She very kindly offered to show us around. After an impressive lunch we swam and then lazed on hanging sun beds living the life of the rich and famous. We have chosen our $6 million villa, should our numbers come up. The day was made even more fun by meeting up with old friends that we hadn’t seen since Belize days. They were staying in their newly purchased villa for the first time and were very pleased with their investment..I should cocoa!
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