A month already?

Hello mum, I can't believe it's been a month since I've written on this thingywotsit. So much has happened, SAGA fundraisers, house moves, parties, Halloween, new people arriving, old friends leaving and of course work gets squeezed somewhere in there!
All is great and I shall start blogging properly as soon as I unpack my camera (got to find the damn thing first) and start taking pictures again. Until then, please use my surrogate brain and photo taking website (OK OK so it's Laurie's shhhhhhhhhhh) www.tacogirl.com and she has some wicked piccies. I shall steal some of Halloween from Facebook too, as honestly, we had the best night we'd had in a long time - a serious blast!
Love you loads
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The Two Ronnies - classic British comedy from the '70's

OK, there's loads of you out there that have no idea who the 2 Ronnies were - I grew up with these guys on TV as a kid. They were great. Ronnie Barker delivered this sketch live at top speed - he never flinched, never giggled and the BBC miraculously never received any complaints - his speed of delivery being just too fast.

This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.

Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion. Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and shivelling shot.
At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered. The sugly isters were right bugly astards.. One was called Mary Hinge, and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible huckers; they had fetty sweet and fatty swannies.
The sugly isters had tickets to go to the ball, but
the cotton runts would not let Rindercella go.
Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared. Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian. She turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with six dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks. The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise, there would be a cucking falamity.
At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when suddenly the clock struck twelve "Mist all chucking frighty!!!" said Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping her slass glipper.
The very next day, the prandsome hince knocked
on Rindercella's door and the sugly isters let him in.. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg and let
off a fig bart. "Who's fust jarted?" asked the prandsome hince."Blame that fugly ucker over there!!" said Mary Hinge.
When the stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.
Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and
a hig bard on. He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking ferfectly.
Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome hince lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with a follen swanny!

I'm amazed at myself

Today marks the 3 year anniversary of me giving up smoking!
Go me!
I love those cigarettes, yes indeed!

Peter bitched so much at me 3 years ago that I had to stop - all summer he fined me weekly, 5$ then 10, 20, 40, 80, 160.... you get the picture. This morning I reminded him that it had been 3 years - do I hear "congratulations", no, of course not, I hear "and you're still fat".
Thanks for the encouragement Peter!

P.S. my mother got married 44 years ago today at 4pm, but the car got a flat tyre, then the road was closed due to an accident and she nearly missed her wedding!

Calendar girls!

Today is the launch of the calendar for the humane society - it features our friends in our community here in San Pedro with their pets. The calendar costs 20 Belize dollars and raises money for SAGA. Here is the fantastic picture Maya from Conch Creative took of Molly and I.
This is a great picture and I thank her tons (even though I got axed from the calendar - cough cough).

Just a joke - thanks to Big Jimmy

Once upon a time lived a beautiful Queen with large breasts. Nick the Dragon Slayer obsessed over the Queen for this reason. He knew that the penalty for his desire would be death should he try to touch them, but he had to try. One day Nick revealed his secret desire to his colleague, Horatio the Physician, the King's chief doctor. Horatio thought about this and said that he could arrange for Nick to more than satisfy his desire, but it would cost him 1000 gold coins to arrange it. Without pause Nick readily agreed to the scheme.

The next day, Horatio made a batch of itching powder and poured a little bit into the Queen's bra while she bathed. Soon after she dressed, the itching commenced and grew intense. Upon being summoned to the Royal Chambers to address this incident, Horatio informed the King and Queen that only a special saliva, if applied for four hours, would cure this type of itch, and that tests had shown that only the saliva of Nick would work as the antidote to cure the itch..

The King, eager to help his Queen, quickly summoned Nick to their chambers. Horatio then slipped Nick the antidote for the itching powder, which he put into his mouth, and for the next four hours, Nick worked passionately on the Queen's large and magnificent breasts. The Queen's itching was eventually relieved, and Nick left satisfied and hailed as a hero. Upon returning to his chamber, Nick found Horatio demanding his payment of 1,000 gold coins. With his obsession now satisfied, Nick couldn't have cared less and, knowing that Horatio could never report this matter to the King, and with a laugh told him to get lost.

The next day, Horatio slipped a massive dose of the same itching powder into the King's underwear. The King immediately summoned Nick.

Charlie and sticky plasters

Last week whilst Peter was away and it happened to be Independence day here in Belize (i.e. everything is closed) I noticed that Charlie's ears were being bitten by stable flies. These things are evil and draw blood, hence attracting more flies and more bites. I hunted high and low for the stable bite stuff to no avail. So, plan B - I covered her ears to protect them from more bites. Doesn't she look pretty with sticky plasters!!!! I just wish they were Disney ones!

Turneffe - 3-tank dive

A huge thank you to Amigos del Mar - and to Gerlinda who was staying at Pedro's and convinced me that I too needed to go dive at Turneffe.
It's pretty much the same deal as going to the Blue Hole and I enjoyed the dives even more.
We went to Turneffe Elbow, the Zoo and Calabash Wall. I totally loved the Zoo, however, I didn't see any giraffes.

These 5 pics are borrowed from Gerlinda - thanks babe! Have fun travelling round the rest of Central America.



Ominous skyline


Trouble and Gerlinda
Calabash Caye





Lunch










Trouble
Mitch pretending to be a speed skater, or a sperm - not too sure which!

It was a totally awesome diving day and we can't thank Amigos del Mar enough - as always, their boys were superb. Thank you Changa!

Wade the Gringo, Tacogirl and the Little One

How many birthdays can you get?
3 birthdays - 1 boat ride - yehaaaaaa. We had the best day's snorkeling EVER. We saw dolphins, eagle rays, sting rays, tarpon, jacks, starfish, gazillions of pretty reef fish - the whole nine yards!



Wade eating as usual

Beautiful sea
Sev driving the boat
Party hats!


Trying to use the Little One as bait but we didn't catch anything
Jack looking like a scary clown
OK, so it's his birthday and he's allowed to wear two hats
Birthday Tacogirl and Jack
Sev

1st annual Taste of Playa

Well, despite the rumours, we went up to Playa to support the Taste of Playa mega event that the wonderful Michelle Kinnon organised.
You can see real and gorgeous pictures on the website http://www.tasteofplaya.com - on my blog, you can see what we really looked like.
We fried in the sun, stuffed our faces and drank far too much - I hit the wine stand like rocket! I doubt if that poor man will forget me.... anyway - it was brilliant, it was shiny, it was tasty and we LOVED IT!

Tacoboy - oh dear, it's still REAL early
Drinking in the sunshine - Phil and Marie
More drinking (notice the absence of food on the table....) JH and Peter
Sev on the other hand has most definitely found the food
Where did you get that hat, where did you get that hat? A most unfortunate picture
Another photo comp - beer for the funniest comment - what the hell is he talking about?
Unfortunately, as dusk happened in is when I started to lose control and got very very naughty. I can post no more pictures and can't tell you the stories on the blog. However, meet me and I'll tell you over a glass of wine! They are pretty funny!

We've skipped to the next night - where a very tired Rob and Michelle join us for Sushi down in Little Italy. I had my first soy beans - they're fab!
Sev and Trouble loving those frogs
Sushi mmmmmm
Sev and Trouble hating those frogs
Oh dear, the night is starting to go wrong - JH has found a donkey and is just so very pleased with himself
Yep
and Yep
Off to the Mescal bar (where I drank water - si si! I was driving the next day....), right opposite OM (where I got thrown out of 2 nights previous, si si, I was not driving the next day....)

Monday morning, Phil is stressed out, I'm driving the van back. We load up, minus JH, Trouble, Sev, Mitch and Pedro. Two tired Tacos, two tired Geckos and myself toodle back to Belize. I drove until 80km before Chetumal and handed the wheel to Phil - aka the worst passenger ever.
We landed on the island and were greeted by Colette and Maya screaming "welcome home" over the fence as they drove past.
Tropic has put in this lovely new terminal, you'd think they could have made a better sign to meet n greet!
Bloody good trip - you know you've enjoyed yourself when your friends vote you "most likely to get arrested". I'm so proud.