Current Rock of Residence:
St. Lucia
Island Girl Since:
2012
Originally Hails From:
Kenya
Janet’s constant itchy feet have (she thinks) finally brought her and her husband to her final home, St. Lucia. Born and brought up in Kenya, she moved with her family to Zimbabwe, South Africa, then finally flew the nest and ventured to England. After many years of bearing the cold, gloom, and rain (not very well), she managed to persuade her landscaper husband that living near the equator was where they should end up. They finally moved to St. Lucia after completing their house in November 2012.
Living in a small fishing village in the rustic south of the island, there is never a day that goes without something happening, sometimes sad, but more often funny. Dull and boring are two words that could never be used to describe anything around the village. She truly feels she has returned to an Africa away from Africa!
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This week we started our WWLOR Book Circle with a group of women from all over the world. Our first meeting was full of lively discussion. We all agreed that reading is like travel for the soul so I thought I would just refresh your memory with some great island reads...
Calling All Spring Breakers!
I know many of you are planning your Spring Break trips to the islands. Lucky you - the islands have missed you all!! It's always so fun getting ready for a beach vacation. We have some great products that have been rock tested listed on the website but I thought I...
Post Vacation Blues
So you've just returned to your island after a busy, bustling, beautiful vacation abroad. As you unpack your 500 suitcases of goodies (and your 8 weeks' worth of dirty laundry even though you were only away for 10 days ) you reminisce over the good times that were had...
If Once You Have Slept on An Island
A hundred year old poem that has stood the test of time... If once you have slept on an island You'll never be quite the same: You may look as you looked the day before And go by the same old name, You may bustle about in street and shop You may sit at home and sew,...
There’s a Rat in Mi Kitchen, what am I gonna do?
RATS… I think every rock has ‘em and if you don’t count yourself lucky!! I can’t stand them - from their beady little eyes to their gelatinous tail - yuck!! On my rock, you see them wandering around from time to time but as my husband would say in his English accent...
Link Up Local
Either you are into searching, scouting and finding out new, (yeah, new what??), new everything or you are not. I belong to the first category. For me part of living on a Rock is embracing the style/ways and quirkiness of that Rock. Having moved to a new Rock a year...
