Caribbean musings #8 The naked truth: is life better without clothes?
Remember when you were a child and summer was about turning on the sprinkler and running around the garden with nothing on? Remember the...
This motherhood #1 Can you have it all?
This is the start of a new series about the experience of being a mother and the state that it induces - whether that's one society...
Caribbean musings #7 Lessons in how to be flexible (and I'm not talking about yoga)
I did something today that I've been putting off for weeks. I went to get a replacement driver's licence. While waiting in long queues, ...
Caribbean musings #6 Living in a dream world
It might have been the fact that it was a rainy British day in August, the kind when the grey sky is a low ceiling and it's hard to see...
Mumspiration #1
One/ We're in the middle of the humid summer/ rainy season in Barbados right now and hot, balmy evenings call for tart, refreshing gin...
Kidspiration #1
One/ I've decided that Saltwater sandals (pictured on Iris) are THE BEST child friendly sandals. Ever. Yes, they're a bit pricey but if...
Caribbean musings #5 Pieces of me
There's something about living away from home that, for me, presents a constant search for my place, the little piece in the giant puzzle...
Summer 2015: the best bits
It's been a fantastic summer. Busy and fun - hence the lack of blog posts - it's been a great change from the routine. But now it's over...
52 project/ # 27
52 Barbados: a weekly photographic record of each of my children in 2015, the year we're living in Barbados. Week #27 Iris: Playing...
The sea/ # 3
This morning I swam a mile in the Caribbean sea. Through clear shallows over white waves of sand and into the deep blue, gliding over a...
