A Limey In Bermuda

Wedding Day

Dies expecta aderat. I awoke at 8.30am on Saturday morning. Unable to sleep any longer I got up and paced the empty house, not wanting to take a shower until it was time to get ready, but not quite knowing...

Wedding Photo Album

I've just created a new photo album containing some pictures from the various events that have been happening during the last couple of weeks of pre-wedding celebrations. With luck I'll be able to add more pictures from the day itself....

The End Of The Beginning

It's 11.30pm on the night before my wedding day and I'm home alone, drunk. Well, not quite alone. Stormy's here with me; he just jumped up and had a brief suck of my ears, but I don't think they taste...

The Phoney Storm

As if hurricane Fabian hadn't messed up our wedding plans sufficiently, we came off our round of golf yesterday afternoon to learn that Tropical Storm Juan was bearing down on Bermuda. The Government panicked and announced that the Causeway and...

Second Spring

With autumn just around the corner, Bermuda is experiencing a second spring. After Fabian threw down half of the trees on the Island, blasted most of the leaves off the rest and left the remainder brown and withered, Bermuda was...

RSVP

Just over a week until the wedding and everything still feels a bit loose. I'm hoping that's just because, being at work all day, I've not been able to be particularly involved with recent preparations. Bobby and Verna have been...

You Cannot Be Serious

In an act of breathtaking selfishness, workers from Bermuda's industrial union (BIU) yesterday walked out of their jobs in protest at the sacking of two Bermudian employees from Cablevision, the Island's sole cable TV company. Quite apart from the merits...

Inclement Weather

Bridal Showers. What's all that about, then? Managed to spring a surprise Shower on Mandy on Saturday afternoon, despite her knowing one was being planned after a friend accidentally let the cat out of the bag a few weeks earlier....

Of Ear Fetishes and Tree Frogs

Thought we'd lost Stormy today - neither Mandy nor I had seen him for the last couple of days. So after spending hours worriedly wandering around calling out his name we decided to adopt the simpler solution and just bring...

Fabian's Wedding

Our first thought when hurricane Fabian passed over last week was 'Thank God we aren't getting married this week!'. But the arrival of the storm just three weeks ahead of our big day is still going to cause us a...

Back to Work

First day back at work after the hurricane. Crossing the Causeway was - interesting. I had to wait in a queue of traffic for 40 minutes to even get onto it this morning, and an hour and ten minutes coming...

Cleaning Up

Although the Causeway was usable by this morning and there was a very limited ferry service between St. George's and Hamilton, after a phone call with Francis I decided not to head in to work today. The Causeway is currently...

After the Storm

Spent the last two days surveying the damage wreaked by Hurricane Fabian and starting to clean up. It's going to take a while before life is back to normal, though. I just hope the wedding isn't going to be badly...

Fabian Strikes, Continued

At 3.25pm on Friday afternoon, while in the middle of an IM conversation with my dad and shortly after my last post here, the power finally went out. It was at that point that we entered the worst phase of...

Fabian Strikes

8am. Didn't sleep too well last night. Got up this morning to a darkened house - having all the shutters closed makes a huge difference to the light. The wind was already strong with white tops in the harbour. Went...

Hurricane Watch

The hurricane has changed course again and is now predicted to pass just 5 miles west of Bermuda - basically a direct hit. It has, however, picked up speed to 15 knots, which is good. The faster it's going when...

Bracing for the Big One

It now looks like we're going to take an almost direct hit from Hurricane Fabian. Its closest point of approach is now expected to be just 15 miles west of the Island at 8pm on Friday evening. Sustained winds of...

Fabian Edges Closer

Seems like we could be in for an even closer call with Hurricane Fabian than we originally expected. The path of the storm has shifted towards Bermuda and is now expected to pass within 60 miles of the Island at...

New Photo Albums

I've just created three new photo albums with the best of my pictures from three events earlier this year (you can access them from the sidebar at the right). The first was Jonathan's wedding in Nashville, the wedding that started...

Blog Watching

The more I use Typepad, the site that hosts and allows me to publish this blog, the more I like it. I've just discovered that Typepad automatically generates RSS syndication files for all my posts. This means it's possible to...

Close Encounters of the Fabian Kind

The forcasters are expecting our first near-miss of the hurricane season later this week. Hurricane Fabian is expected to graze the west of Bermuda on Friday night, bringing - surprise, surprise - strong winds and thunderstorms. The bad news is...

Loss of Life

Had our first present from the cats this morning - a rat, bitten in two, left swarming with ants in our back yard. Nice. This evening we had a real fright. Some friends of ours came round with their two...

Call of the Wild

Yesterday we finally released Dark and Stormy, our two cats, back into the wild. Since getting them three weeks ago from Francis' flatmate's girlfriend we've kept them inside to allow them to adjust to their new home and reduce the...