Blogs

A while ago I looked out to sea from my balcony and noticed the white sails of a few sailing boats on the horizon. It was unusual to see...

Last month I had some special visitors to my home in Grenada. Tina and Peter are some of my closest friends from the UK and we were often...

This month's blog is written by Karen and Clive who came back for a second visit. I'm so grateful to them for the work they did and it...

I don't know about you but I enjoy marking the New Year – not because I enjoy staying up late or partying but because I appreciate the...

Over the last month, we have had heavy rain and wild winds which have caused nationwide flooding and some landslides. The flooding was so...

Recently Connie and her son, Reuben, came to stay. They helped me to apply wood preserve on plywood that was then labeled, cut and stored...

In March of this year, I bought a very healthy aloe vera plant that already had a few young shoots growing around the mother plant (in...

I have recently returned from a trip back to the UK – my first time back since I moved here, eighteen months ago. It was interesting to...

Before Hurricane Beryl came and set back development in Grenada, the government ran a programme of town hall meetings across Grenada....

I didn’t expect to be writing about my experience of a hurricane this month but then none of us expected it. Officially Grenada is below...

This month I had planned to focus on the link between nature and wellbeing for the monthly blog. This has been confirmed to me in the...

One of the things I miss being here is not being able to spend time with close friends who live in the UK. So having the daughter of one...

This month my friends, Terry and Sue from our church in Romford, came to visit on a working holiday. The photo above is at the rum...

The change to writing monthly blogs instead of weekly has been ideal because the last few weeks have been very busy. Since my last blog,...

Wildlife Wonder- Turtles The local Levera beach is one of the best places to see the leatherback turtle, particularly over the next few...

Wildlife wonder- Scarlet Ibis One of my favourite walks here is to go down to Levera National Park and walk along the beach, passing the...

Wildlife Wonder – Whales This time of year, between about December to April, is the best time to see whales in Grenadian waters. Like the...

Wildlife Wonder – Tropical Mockingbird I was talking to someone recently and then she said that she thought that she could hear a...

Wildlife Wonder – Red-Rumped Agouti My very first pet was a guinea-pig called Checkers who had a black and white checked pattern on his...

Wildlife wonder – Grenada Flycatcher A few weeks ago, I heard a very distinct birdsong that I hadn’t heard before and so I went out onto...