What a sad tragic start to the week. SWMBO and I had enjoyed a pleasant weekend with mutual friends and did not learn of the bomb blast until waking up on Tuesday morning. Our kids have been to the concert hall many times, we went ourselves to see Paul Simon and Sting.
The bombers are herristic in the way smart chess computers are. They learn what works and what doesn't and modify their moves accordingly. Security which is tight bars them from the stadia and arena's so wait outside and let your targets come to you.
Cowardly and evil people,however, are limited in their modification ability. After attacking several countries in an effort to strike fear and nervousness, which in turn they hope will provide a basis for their deranged religious beliefs, they are failing to realise that it will do nothing of the sort.
Each evil act simply strengthens the resolve of the opposition and provides greater resilience and fortitude against which they will subsequently need to battle. The end game approaches faster with each failed attempt at provocation.
The bombers are pawns in hands of their bigger players but eventually bishops, knights, kings and queens will triumph. Checkmate.
Thursday 25 May 2017
Saturday 6 May 2017
Danny John-Jules
Beach day today following a very large evening meal at a beachside restaurant called Champers, last night. Three courses was just being too greedy. It felt like being on a cruise ship. The place was lovely though, a bit like The Cliff on the West coast but a bit more relaxed.
Today we have been out snorkelling with the Hawksbill turtles who turn up near the beach to feed off the sardine entrails the local beach fishermen throw back. The turtles don't let you get too close but the are very relaxed creatures nonetheless.
We have a mega Sunday lunch booked tomorrow so it will be frugal fayre tonight or the taxi will need to be re-enforced to get us home!!
Today we have been out snorkelling with the Hawksbill turtles who turn up near the beach to feed off the sardine entrails the local beach fishermen throw back. The turtles don't let you get too close but the are very relaxed creatures nonetheless.
We have a mega Sunday lunch booked tomorrow so it will be frugal fayre tonight or the taxi will need to be re-enforced to get us home!!
Friday 5 May 2017
Sting
The last two days have been car hire and tour the island days. Things did not start too well as we were wiped out by a reggae bus less than half a mile from the hotel. Police arrived and will decide who was at fault if the insurers can't. At home I would have been blameless, but here, who knows? Interestingly the insurance company send a man to the crash scene. That would be novel at home!
Anyway, after kicking the wing back in place we set off round the South of the island. Maps are a waste of time here so our tour took a long time and we visited some places three times before doing some remote beaches, Gun Hill and Bethesda, a great surfing beach. It was here we ran into policeman 2. He was serving behind the bar at a beach restaurant before driving his mum home!! If the writers of Death in Paradise were looking for somebody to base Dwain on, we just found him!!
Yesterday was calmer. We only got lost once. We visited an old plantation house, St Nicholas Abbey, where they have the last working rum distillery, and then the North point of the island for amazing cliffs and crashing waves.
Came back via the posh part of the island on the West coast. The contrast is amazingly stark. Car now handed back and beach chilling re-instated.
Anyway, after kicking the wing back in place we set off round the South of the island. Maps are a waste of time here so our tour took a long time and we visited some places three times before doing some remote beaches, Gun Hill and Bethesda, a great surfing beach. It was here we ran into policeman 2. He was serving behind the bar at a beach restaurant before driving his mum home!! If the writers of Death in Paradise were looking for somebody to base Dwain on, we just found him!!
Yesterday was calmer. We only got lost once. We visited an old plantation house, St Nicholas Abbey, where they have the last working rum distillery, and then the North point of the island for amazing cliffs and crashing waves.
Came back via the posh part of the island on the West coast. The contrast is amazingly stark. Car now handed back and beach chilling re-instated.
Monday 1 May 2017
Andrea Corr
Phew that's finished. A long four days ended yesterday at Sandy Lane and I came 61st overall out of 140 medal competitors. I beat Gordon Greenidge and Brian Lara but not Otis Gibson or Wayne Baptiste
One of our fourball hit a gross 80 yesterday which was very impressive.
Sandy Lane as a golf course layout was a bit disappointing. It was wide open off the tee and only protected by lightening fast greens. I was undone by the par 3 holes on the front nine, dropping 8 shots to par. That said the rest of the round was pretty solid.
The course has hosted a World Golf Championship event and is the second such I've played after the Victoria course in Portugal. It is the second course at Sandy Lane. The main one, the Green Monkey, is for hotel guests only and is still $4000 a tee time. There was nobody on it yesterday!!
The hotel is owned by J P McManus, John Magnier and Dermott Desmond, part of the hugely wealthy Irish racing community, Tiger Woods married there and Simon Cowell and Rihanna, amongst others, have homes on the estate.
One of our fourball hit a gross 80 yesterday which was very impressive.
Sandy Lane as a golf course layout was a bit disappointing. It was wide open off the tee and only protected by lightening fast greens. I was undone by the par 3 holes on the front nine, dropping 8 shots to par. That said the rest of the round was pretty solid.
The course has hosted a World Golf Championship event and is the second such I've played after the Victoria course in Portugal. It is the second course at Sandy Lane. The main one, the Green Monkey, is for hotel guests only and is still $4000 a tee time. There was nobody on it yesterday!!
The hotel is owned by J P McManus, John Magnier and Dermott Desmond, part of the hugely wealthy Irish racing community, Tiger Woods married there and Simon Cowell and Rihanna, amongst others, have homes on the estate.
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