Wake Me Up and Make Me Feel Alive Please

Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to wake up properly and you just feel totally lacklustre? Well today is one of those days for me, I suppose sleeping in this morning didn’t help and having to get washed, dressed and have breakfast in 15 minutes before the school run didn’t help. The icing on the cake was that the rain was absolutely lashing down this morning when I was the road.

If the weather had been a wee bit better I would have headed over to Foul Bay and had a wee dip in the cooling waters of the Atlantic Ocean, that would have woken me up real good, but that is out of the question.

A couple of cans of Power Max later and some motivational visual realization techniques that I use in emergency situations like this and I seem to be almost back in the land of the living.

My recovery process will be complete any minute now just as soon as I watch a video from one of my favourite bands of all time, The Clash performing “I fought the law and the law won”. I doubt it if many people in the Caribbean are even aware of, or are have even heard of the Clash, but here you go!

I Squashed the Little F**ker Last Night

Last night I achieved something monumental in my life, I reached a major milestone, which gave me a real sense of satisfaction, honest it really did! You may be wondering what made me so happy and content with life, had I finally won the lottery, NOPE, it was something even more satisfying.

I managed to squash one of those little f**kers of things known as mosquitoes with a piece of tissue I was holding in my hand. I watched it flying around and took aim and caught it perfectly in the tissue, it required near perfect hand to eye co ordination, and it felt good to see it squashed and dead.

But unfortunately I’m not too sure if the pesky mosquito had the last laugh because the tissue was covered in blood, which the wee beastie had sucked from someone, it may well have been mine.

I intend to take my mosquito squashing on to a whole new level, my next task is to catch and squash one of them with a pair of Chinese chop sticks, Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid will be proud of me, has anybody got his number so I can get a few tips to help me out.

Interesting Facts About Mosquitoes:

1. It is the female mosquito that sucks blood from its victims.
2. A mosquito can fly for 1 to 4 hours continuously at up to 1-2km/h, travelling un to 10 km in a night.
3. Most species of mosquito are dawn or dusk feeders, resting during the heat of the day in a cool place.
4. One brown bat can consume 1200 mosquitoes in an hour, I wish the bats round here would do a better job!

I don’t know if the mosquitoes in Barbados have thing for juicy tasty Scottish blood for they can’t seem to leave me alone. I have had to resort to slapping on citronella oil on a regular basis to keep them at bay, it aint quite Hugo Boss aftershave, but I suppose it does work reasonable well.

I Ain’t Missing the Weather In Scotland At All

This picture is for the benefit of all my friend’s and family members back home in Aberdeen in Scotland. I sure aint missing the weather back home at all. I have just looked at the forecast for the forthcoming weekend and there will be heavy snow showers and it will hit below 0 degrees in Aberdeen, it is bringing me out in a cold sweat thinking about it.

I know what I will be doing this weekend and it doesn’t entail shivering from the cold or falling on my ass when I slip and fall on some slippery patch of ice. I will be heading to the beach to get some warm Bajan sun and the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea on my skin.

Friends, family members and anybody that knows me, take a good look at the picture at the top of this page that is where I will be at the weekend. Come and join me!

Indicators Aren’t Difficult to Use Barbados

Why do so many drivers in Barbados not know what indicators are used for. It doesn’t matter if it is car drivers, bus drivers, lorry drivers or even motorcyclists they haven’t got a clue how to use there indicators, in fact I’m not even sure if half of them even know that they have indicators. For all I know maybe using your indicators in Barbados just depends on whether you can be bothered to use them or not.

I for one find it pure bad manners, ignorance and laziness not to use your indicators. It is the basics of driving to make other road users aware of your intentions whilst driving on the road. If you are intending on turning right or left, why wouldn’t you want to let other drivers know of your intentions, it is basic common sense.

Also why do some drivers stop on a busy roads, whether they are broken down or they are waiting on someone to finish having their breakfast before they pick them up, or whether they are having a 10 minute conversation with someone at the side of the road, why the hell don’t they switch on their indicators to let everyone else know they have stopped. Honestly it isn’t exactly rocket science to flick the switch to turn  on your hazard lights, or maybe it is for some people.

Maybe the driving test in Barbados needs to become a little bit more difficult because this island has some of the craziest drivers I have ever witnessed on the roads, apart from possible Egypt. I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing this morning, I was sitting waiting to pull on from a roundabout on the ABC heading towards the airport, when a lunatic drove into the hard shoulder so he could pull out ahead of me in his beat up van.

Don’t get me wrong there are many good and considerate drivers here in Barbados, the problem is that there seems to be too many lunatics on the roads here.

Packed In Like Sardines All Over Barbados

I see those buses every morning when I go on the School run and they scare the hell out of me. It doesn’t matter if it is the Government owned buses or the privately owned ones, they are rammed full of people.

It surely can’t be legal to have so many people on one bus at a time; they are severely over laden with people. I can only imagine the carnage that would happen if one of these buses were to be in a serious accident, and the way some of them are driven it is something that will happen one of these days.

Just the other day, I watched school kids literally hanging out the bus windows because the bus was so packed. What a way to begin your day of learning at school, it must have a negative effect on many school children’s concentration levels to be crammed in like a sardine before they get to school.

Just as I watched the packed bus in the picture come past, in fact I think this particular bus was going for the world record for the most amount of people that could fit in a bus, to say it was packed would be an understatement. A few minutes later a very comfortable looking private mini bus came past on it’s