Yay For LaRedoute!

Our new shoes, just arrived from La Redoute, thank goodness for mail order sandals to brighten up our days!

Our ship came in!

Some of the backlogged Christmas parcels arrived with the boat on the 26th, it was like winning the lottery at the post office! Not to mention the wine and beer arrival! Cheers!

Wintry May

It's been an eventful enough start to May. The weather has suddenly become quite cold and wintry, with lots of gusty winds and heavy rain, generally making me want to hibernate. We've also been having car troubles, Viriamu got the car stuck in the mountains in the middle of the bad weather, the engine was overheating and leaking water, and subsequently it's been quite a challenge to get it towed back down! Fortunately my brother in law works for the local energy company and has access to heavy duty four-wheel drives with winch!!! But it still took four days to get the heavy machinery in and we've had to beg and borrow cars to be able to look after our guests! Between that and the 'fun' we've had trying to install our new hybrid solar freezer (we somewhat foolishly bought it off a salesman who was staying at our guesthouse), the whole thing seems to be more than a little bit cobbled together, we had to wire up the system ourselves, using the slightly dog-eared cables provided, and either the solar panel or the battery still doesn't seem to be working quite right....hey-ho.... and there was me thinking it might be quite a good idea to try to go solar!

Now that the car's fixed I ventured out around town, and picked up the stack of mail awaiting us, in there were a couple of birthday cards, almost a month late, plus a 2010 Christmas card that had made the journey via Guyana (a French territory, albeit on the other side of the world!!!!), I think this tops the parcel sent via the Falklands!!!!

Lost in transit

Living out here has so many charms, but also it's fair share of hassles too. Post is one of them, our postmistress is lovely and friendly and has a large shiny air-conditioned post office to sit in all day, however the post system itself is a big old mystery.....mail just takes forever to get anywhere, outgoing or more particularly incoming, where it goes I'm not sure. Though Heimana's birthday parcel which has taken over six weeks to get to us from the UK, may provide some kind of clue.......

 .......maybe all our mail goes via the Falklands (well it begins with an 'F' just like French Polynesia, so why not!!!!).....