It’s sort of good being back home where it’s bloody freezing with not much is happening but to think it will be Easter in a few weeks then we had all better get on our knees and pray for an early change in the weather over the next four weeks.
They are such a miserable lot out there in St Kitts and when I compare the happy atmospheres at our Car Boot Sales to being served in some of the shops by miserable and indifferent assistants I think I will have to send a posse of our people to cheer the buggers up. The security staff at the customs are even worse they are impolite ignorant and offensively rude as we all have to go through the rituals and humiliations of having to take our belts and shoes off besides body scans, bag searches ‘no liquids’ sold to us 2 minutes earlier, the only conversations they have is between themselves. I know it’s got to be done but the workers make it abundantly obvious they are unhappy about their jobs, their lives and the bloody TOURISTS! I hate these ritualistic behaviours but I have to admit they have the same attitudes towards their own Kittitians kith & kin. So why do we go there?
Because the weather is unbelievably hot, hot, hot, the beaches are beautiful the views are spectacular so who gives a toss if the locals don’t like us! It isn’t because we are Brits they hate the Americans (loud and gobby) so why are they like it?
Because they live in a very unhappy country, they all have money worries, they have tourism as the only main industry; unemployment is sky high; the corrupt Prime Minister Denzel Douglas (see google reports) and his equally corrupt Barrister at Law Dr Henry Browne(arrested DUI charges swept under the carpet) are blamed for millions and multi millions of EC & US Dollars missing but invested into properties owned by the PM and the same PM has just introduced VAT at 20% to their people who seriously could not afford the cost of living before this rise.

Add all this to the intense heat that has to be tolerated all of the time by the populations whose main concerns are to stay out of the sun to protect their delicate skins also intense heat makes you moody, moody and then some more! I know! My Lou got a bit overheated a couple of times which I find is a good time to ‘wind her up’ BINGO does she get SHIDDY?

But we have some very good friends who are even worse off with no adult member of the families earning regular incomes so we have obvious loyalties to help them out where possible!
And then you get back to the UK and the BA staffs has been civil and happy towards their passengers even the customs officers smile and are polite then you go into the Airport which is so British and organised and peaceful and reasonably happy. The only real Q in the Airport is at McDonalds where the 99p Burgers are selling like ‘hot burgers’ to holiday-makers returning after eating ‘all that foreign crap’ WELCOME HOME!

Marge, I have missed you my lover and all our fellow carbooters and friends buyers and sellers alike. Love to all. XX