Sunday 25th October

I found PF Network internet cafe Sat morning, and successfully lost half the day there, ok, Zoe helped, I had to leave though, it is $10 per 30 minutes, and I’m a skinflint, as it was, it still cost me $35 but it was well worth it. I didn’t get to the Global Warming Outdoor gathering at the Cultural Village Centre, it started raining, and I thought as much as I’d love to go and cause arguments, I didn’t need to be getting wet doing it.

After I cut CO2 levels to 350, I’ll part the Pacific Ocean, solve the Israel/Palestine conflict, sort out the USA financial problem, and give everyone a chicken in a pot for dinner. Blathering idiots that came up with that scam. It has no show of succeeding, but to follow their arguments and recommendations will put every developed country back 30 years, and prevent developing countries from lifting their standards of living. Malthusian population control socialistic world government idiots. They’ll be first up against the wall when I’m King, followed by the Politicians, Lawyers and any sock and sandal wearing lentil munching looney left wing green party people I missed the first time.

We’ve got a busy week ahead, I have to send a crew to the Memorial Gardens first thing to give it a makeover, lawns, trimming etc before Tuesday morning, for a ceremony being held there, sort out who we are going to send to Commonwealth Avenue for the week, I think we might make a roster for it, so everyone gets a 5 day week in turn doing it, although I think it may turn into a bigger job once all the other business see what we are doing there, although the Chinese owned shops won’t be part of it, miserly robbing bastards. Then there are still plants and fences to be shifted from the Gardens from the old nursery, plus the orchids, we have 6 school kids from Woodford School coming for 2 weeks work experience from Tuesday, I stupidly told Keithie earlier today that I’ll start the last course for the year next week, well, it’s not stupid, but as if I haven’t got enough to do now.

Tiffany and I will be in the BJS office each morning this week checking email, SIEA and Telekom have both said power and phone lines will be connected this week, I’m taking the Samsung mobile into Telekom tomorrow to see if they can get it to work, if not I’ll put it in the box marked junk in the spare room. I know not having the pin code isn’t going to help, and it’s too light to use as a fishing sinker.

I’m regretting having the Vodafone mobile drowned, it was easy to use, and worked. And it had a camera.

I had a good morning at the market again, surprising how the prices drop a bit when they know you are a “local” and there every week, it’s only taken me 9 months to get to that stage. Handing out prints of the photos I take every now and then helps as well. $5 off the price for bananas, $2 off the price for pawpaw, and a free bunch of spring onions if I bought 2. There were a few tourists there with a guide from the Tourism office, trying to work out the prices converted back to US$. They’d been to Central Market yesterday judging by the comments about the difference between Kukum Fish Market and Central Market, less rubbish and friendlier people.

Yesterdays rain didn’t stop till early this morning, everything is all washed clean, most of the roadsides edges have been flooded away, so briefly it looked quite tidy and clean. The big tree on the corner of the Ba’hai property dropped a branch yesterday in the rain, huge lump of timber, took out a tree under it, and damaged another mango tree as well. We may get the clean up job, but it will take a bigger chainsaw than the little one we have.

I’m going to make up a set of flash cards for Jennifer and Imelda, and me, with the latin names, and common and island names of the plants on, so we can all get them in our memory. Especially with the fruit and nut species here, every Island has a different common name for the same tree, it gets really confusing at times.