Paradise Promised?

Minxed

Seysays — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:10:56 +0000

Don't be fooled, she's a tiger

Being able to control a roomful of nine year-olds – not many people can do that, and the other one is very good at it. The problem is, it’s gone to his head, he’s got some God like complex thinking everything bends to his will, including the animal kingdom, Minx our cat of course having remembered his reprimand from six months earlier not to bring us any presents. Course she did. Needless to say, he wasn’t very godlike when minx deposited a dead rat at my feet. He wasn’t even remotely Dr Doolittle. Me, I was like David, I got my dustpan (long handled admittedly) and brush, and pushed the not yet stiff body onto the pan and scurried out into the garden and threw it.

NOT.VERY.FAR. ~~I was like David~~. Still s**t at throwing then.

We’re both bloody useless.

Tagged: cats, mahe, seychelles

new newbies

Seysays — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:50:56 +0000

I was looking for a matching picture and saw this. I love my hometown.

Like the passing of the seasons (as far as I can remember, we just get sunny + rain and cloudy +more rain), teachers come and teachers go. So some went before Christmas and some arrived and seeing as though we did naff all over the holidays, we thought we best make the effort. We didn’t go overboard you understand, I didn’t actually have to leave the house. A couple of the new guys came over – who I am happy to report are Social Seychellers – and we had beers and chatted about the island, and what a great place it is to live. And then I got drunk and told them the truth…I kid…I do really.

One of them was yet another south east London refugee so this tells you something. By god, there must be a case for twinning.

Victoria, Seychelles twinned with Thornton Heath,Croydon.

Actually, no.

Victoria, Seychelles twinned with Purley Way ,Croydon [home to Sainsbury's, B&Q and Ikea]

There’s got to be something in it for Seychelles, come on.

Tagged: friends, mahe, seychelles, shopping, socialseychelles

Incroyable!

Seysays — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:36:31 +0000

To the shock of everyone, most of all myself, I passed my French exam! More than that, I scored my highest mark for my conversation. WHAT IS GOING ON?

What next? Salma Hayek being given the French Legion of Honour?

Tagged: Leisure, mahe, seychelles

Resolutions…

Seysays — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Only the one.

Get off my (increasingly) fat, lardy ass.

Tagged: random, seychelles

New Year…

Seysays — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:59:02 +0000

Another quiet one. This time round ours, we had a friend leaving the island whose meal we’d been to the night before, and she came round with a few others for some food and drinks. They departed for the airport to wave her off and a couple returned, for some bubbly and the crappest countdown ever. The other one being all techno gadget with it (for the Shells) set the countdown on our laptop and realising it was close to midnight went to check the time.

’24 seconds’ he shouted. Which was just about time to fill my glass at least. Happy New Year!

Tagged: random, seychelles

Lazy days…

Seysays — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:57:35 +0000

I had the whole time from Christmas to New Year off. The weather was overcast and rainy, so despite our resolutions to get down to the beach (it’d been weeks), we ended up in most of the time and I spent the time writing while the other one played guitar and we steadily ate through the Christmas treats we’d bought.

Tagged: seychelles

Christmas…

Seysays — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:56:27 +0000

With none of the build up that we’re used to in the UK and certainly not the weather, it seemed that Christmas was suddenly upon us. From having lots of different ideas for what we’d do, in the event we didn’t do very much. On Christmas Eve, we went round to friends and on Christmas Day, having been to the beach last year, we opted to stay in, cooking up a feast and we hoped, watching lots of Christmas telly. The telly was crap, really crap and the best bit about our Christmas meal was our pudding, which was sent in a parcel from the other one’s mum, full of goodies and filling us with Christmas cheer. I must have really stumped the other one as the first present I opened was a hand blender. I hadn’t set my expectations that low. Then again, since our last one broke, I have to admit I rather missed it. The pressies got better, I got a gorgeous necklace and yup, DVDs too. The other one liked his squash racket, promised me he’d wear the goggles (I doubt it but what better gift than that of an intact eyesight,I ask you?!) and socks, and for the first time ever, liked the clothes that I’d bought him. A relationship first – and they fit him too – bonus! Our mums rang to wish us Merry Christmas and the day ended with a Bailey’s and me struggling to get off the sofa. Happy Days.

Tagged: Food, random, seychelles

Vicarious internet shopping

Seysays — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:51:20 +0000

Shopping online is brilliant – unfortunately,this is only so when its for other people, the cost of goods (plus delivery fees to Seychelles being generally shocking) meaning its not really worth it for ourselves. So it was, the other one and I browsed online, getting excited about the latest DVDs, books and heaps of stuff that we (cue violins) could only ever hope to have. So rarely do we get to shop properly, I loved it,trying to match the right gifts to family, and for our nephews we adopted animals from the World Wildlife Fund, my personal fave and a worthwhile cause if you know that the kids are going to get loads anyway -and they get a cuddly toy out of it too. We were very pleased with ourselves – and the internet crashed only once.

Tagged: random, seychelles, shopping

The advent of advent calendars

Seysays — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:49:54 +0000

It’s taken over a decade to finally have an advent calendar in time for Christmas. Each year without fail, I say I’d like one and then I remember again sometime around Boxing Day. I only got it this year because we made a rare visit to a shop in Providence known for selling John Lewis seconds that often in the event don’t actually work, and it was proved true. Our dinky christmas tree with fairy lights had lights that didn’t work and our advent calendar didn’t actually ever get to Christmas - it had two windows marked 23. I hadn’t noticed at all when we were in the shop, but somehow it was fitting.

The other one (with yet more subtle hints from me) had filled most of the days (the pockets were empty), not with chocolates as I’d expected, but clues to where I could find small gifts. Around our flat I yelped about gleefully ( I had 11 to catch up on after being in Mauritius) getting excited about what the other one would cheerfully admit was tat – hair bobbles, grips, miniature balloons, socks- I was a big kid and loved it. More to the point, the other one must have been really bored while I was in away.

Tagged: random, seychelles

Managing expectations

Seysays — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:07:54 +0000

Back in the Shells, I’d been relatively successful in my Mauritian supermarket sweep finding Christmas pressies for the other one, if a little unoriginal. Find a theme and work it,that’s my motto. I dropped unsubtle hints to the other one on my return as to my ‘generosity.’ I didn’t want to be sat there on Christmas Day holding only one gift. I didn’t care about quality I wanted quantity, the thrill of sitting there guessing what the package that looks suspiciously like a DVD might be other than a DVD, which was just as well as the other one didn’t have the luxury of getting off the island to shop. He had Victoria. I assured him that my expectations were low.

Tagged: seychelles, shopping