Corned beef pie, now there's paradise for you
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May
18
I’ve written before about how Seychelles is like the UK of 40 year ago, a place where the petrol stations are all attended service, the cinema has an interval in mid-film and shops close for lunch. But you really know you have entered a time warp when your local newspaper is extolling the virtue of corned beef.
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Corned beef heaven
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May
17
Praying Mantis in the house
Big eyes.
I woke up yesterday and I saw a Praying Mantis on roof. I could tell it was a female because she was brown with a green head and she also had green clawlike arms under her head, with reddish black spikes. We put the Praying Mantis in a dome, with a magnifying glass in top of it and drew her.
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May
12
Breakfast in Paradise
'Come on - Who's only lifting 49 times their own body weight?'
Last night I killed a cockroach on the veranda (using the broom method). Normally I scoop them up and toss them into the vegetation which surrounds our house to make humus for the banana trees, but it was late and dark so I left it. This morning by the time we came to have breakfast a whole bunch of ants had congregated around the cockroach and were slowing eating it.
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May
12
Beach and Volcano
Here’s a picture of Anse Indendence and a volcano. One was painted by Joanna and one by Luke. See if you can tell who did which one.
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May
09
The fearless birds of Seychelles.
When is this egg going to hach?
I sailed to La Digue last week with dad, the boys and Liz who works with dad. We walked to La Digue nature reserve where Seychelles paradise fly catchers live. Josianna showed us a new nest which was next to the road and there was a female paradise fly catcher in the nest on an egg (left). I had wait a bit for the male to come on to the nest. The males as you can see are black all over apart from the beak which is light blue and around the eyes is light blue (Left below) . The male has a really long tail too (below).
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May
07
If you spend most of your time driving it’s easy to think that everyone lives along a road and they all get around in cars. This idea was challenged recenty when we went on a hash run (an organised local walk) which started by following a road in a fairly busy part of town and then just cut up some stairs away from the road and entered a cluster of closely packed and, in some cases, not quite finished house. Everybody in Seychelles seems to have a bit of land. Some people have houses on their land in which they live in, some people are building houses on their land and some people just have the land.
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Tramps in Church
No sandal wearers here please
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Apr
30
Little house in the woods
I’ve been meaning to put this video up for a while now. From 10 months of doing it two or three times a days it’s normal for us now and it’s easy to forget that we live in the jungle. So, for everyone who lives in Suburbia, enjoy a trip up our drive.
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Apr
30
I’ve finally persuaded Martin BBQing is great
My oven, I think I may have mentioned once or twice before, is rubbish. I was therefore, really jealous of the fab gas BBQ I saw at a friend’s house. They were leaving Seychelles and I was dead keen to buy it. It is twice the size of my oven and even has temperature control – luxury. The problem was it was way out of our price range. ( Read more )
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Apr
29
I was shopping in the market today. It’s mosty good, but some stallholders try and sell the same fruit and veg that you can buy in the supermarket, only for more money, which is a bit strange, unless of course they are catering for Seychellois who have a fear of supermarkets. There were quite a few pineapples today, so I thought I would find out how much they cost. In the UK we used to be able to buy a nice unsustainably produced Costa Rican pineapple for about £2. In the market the going rate was 150 rupees (about £7). Seven pounds for a pineapple! As shocking as that sounds, what’s more shocking is that there were so many on sale. Either Seychellois are really bad businessmen, or some people were actually paying £7 for a pineapple. Remember the average wage here is apparently £500 a month. If you scale up the salaries to UK equivalent that’s like spending about £28 on a pineapple.
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The £28 pineapple
Wild! And that's just the pineappes
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Apr
19
It’s not just surf dudes in Devon that are attracted to VW camper vans. We brought a genuine 1976 VW camper van all the way from the UK (that I played with when I was a kid) and tonight Luke found a tiny gecko hanging out in it. No surf board though and his hair was cropped real short. They obviously do it differently out here.
Gecko in a van
'Hey dude, who turned on the lights?'
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"Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country" Proverbs 25 v 25.
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