have just returned from a week long trip to Florida with our Year 6 pupils who were attending Herpetology Camp. They went to Boyd Hill Nature Reserve on a daily basis to meet up with George Heinrich, a field biologist and expert in turtles, tortoises and snakes, and learned about the ecology of the [...]

ust a few shots of some of the other yachts we passed while sailing between islands on the BVI…they are beautiful to watch!

hat better name for a sailing boat in the Caribbean? Our Hakuna Matata was a 47 foot catamaran with berths for 8 and 4 ‘heads’ (that’s toilets/showers to you and I!). It was surprisingly spacious, although the galley had room for only one soul to make the dinner at a time! The rest of us [...]

hese fabulous birds provided great entertainment as we lay on the beach in Pirate’s Bight, Norman Island, BVI. They were diving for fish as the sun was setting – 10 metres from us. I didn’t appreciate their colours until I saw some of these photos!!

t our Easter picnic – see below – it is traditional to have a pinata. What I see is a cardboard shape covered in tissue paper, filled with sweets which the children then hit with a stick, after being blindfolded and turned three times, until it bursts and the contents – sweeties – fall to [...]

t the end of the Spring Term, our school has an Easter assembly followed by a picnic at a lovely bit of beach by the local Wesleyan Church. Easter assemblies are a revelation to me…we have REAL palm branches to wave after a lifetime of making paper ones for similar ocasions at home!! Once on the picnic [...]

‘m feeling very sad tonight – Lewis and Caroline were here for 10 days – and I think someone has fast-forwarded my clock!! It was great having them. They managed to relax and bronzed nicely…and we had some lovely meals both out and in! It was our anniversary (32 years!!!?) on Thursday and Lew and [...]