Bermudababble Week Twenty Six
I seem to have spent the entire week screaming, laughing or both!
We’ve had all the weather in the world this week in Bermuda – and on one unfortunate morning, my brolly was whipped inside out and carried me out into the road! It didn’t occur to me to let go! I was shivering at the bus stop when the American and Italian rugby teams who are here for the Rugby World Classic and have been staying near us, sped by on mopeds, with faces gurning in the oncoming wind and rain. They were all so massive; it looked like they were riding those teeny tiny motorbikes that were all the rage a few years ago! Their expressions told me that this was not the warm, tropical paradise that they had been expecting. That made me chuckle.
To brighten my spirits, I accepted the offer of a fruit pastille and didn’t realize it had a tiny piece of foil until on it, until it went right up into one of my metal fillings! That was a scream right there.
The sun soon came out again.
It’s been a very social week for the Major and I, catching up with friends and enjoying the best Bermudian and Jamaican cuisine – fish and laughter aplenty!
I can’t WAIT until the release of A Christmas Wish, on Dec 1st – I think you’ll love it and I LOVE the cover which I saw for the first time this week – here’s a peek – http://amzn.to/175lksn – I’ve had one critic review who wrote ‘It’s the catch up with Poppy Day we have been waiting for! Prowse at her very best!’ – this made me very happy indeed!
My youngest boy has been in London with his friends this week and I haven’t slept – worrying about him, tell me it gets easier people. He told me he went to Hamleys and I cried as I pictured taking him there aged 5 where he was rather nervous of Santa Claus and bought some car Lego with his pocket money. That feels like a blink ago, now he’s driving a real car…
This biggest scream of the week came yesterday when I put my hand in a drawer and it came out with four cockroaches clinging to my fingers. Every time I think about it my back goes into a little spasm! Yuk! My friend and I tipped the drawer out on the grass and ONE cockroach scuttled away which means there are THREE unaccounted for! I can’t even think about it! There – my back’s twitching again!
Christmas fast approaching – not that it feels very festive here, not for me. I associate the Christmas holiday with family, rubbish telly and eating trifle on Boxing Day! It’s the one time of the year that everything feels highlighted, the good and the bad. When you are in love Christmas is magical and when you are lonely it can feel like the darkest time on earth. The reason I mention it now with over a month to go, is because there is still time to reach out to anyone that might need the hand of friendship this year. The bereaved, the elderly and those that have struggled in the difficult climate this year, it’s amazing what a difference an invite for a cuppa and a good old natter can make…
Okay – BREAKING NEWS – I am going to hold a Q&A session via Facebook (Amanda Prowse Author) where I will be online for an hour to answer anything at all! Advice on getting published etc. Date to be confirmed, but if you are interested – please go to my website www.amandaprowse.org and make sure you have registered your email on the site and we can send you details of when and where! Should be fun!
This morning I am dragging the Major to a huge thrift shop called The Barn on the island, where I hope to add to my collection of mismatched vintage cups and saucers that I pack away and imagine one day, putting them on a dresser in a house that exists only in my imagination!
I love holding these little china things that have brought someone else pleasure and making them mine! It’s similar to my obsession with buying old black and white photos of dead people that I never knew. I can’t bear the idea of these family photos being unloved, so if I find any, I buy them up and put them in my house! I get some strange looks when visitors say, ‘oh, who is that?’ and point to framed photo and I shake my head and say, ‘I have no idea!’
As I write, the Major is trying to open a macadamia nut that one of the gardeners at the Botanical Gardens in Paget gave me; he’s been at it with a little saw for a good ten minutes. Might be easier to just go and buy him a packet of KP…
Sending love and friendship from this little island, to wherever you rest your head.
Mandy xx
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