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The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover …….. in Cuba.
As I was thinking about writing this post, the Peter Greenaway film title that I stole for this post title kept playing around in my head all jumbled up and back to front. I think Peter Greenaway has visited the film … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Fashion, Film
Tagged big belly, Cayo Coco, Colonial Trinidad, cook, cuba, Cuban DJs, EICTV, Europe, film school, gossip, Havana, housekeeper, Kiev; Ukraine, La Habana, Maria la gorda, nanny, new air con, Peter Greenaway, Rhumba, Russian, Saskia, snoop, special period, the thief, Trinidad
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School holidays, Viñales ……… and not Bin Laden!
I have just survived 2 weeks of the boy’s school holidays and on top of that, an ailing little sister Saskia. Who dictates to all of us in her sweet but firm way! Terrible twos just round the corner. I … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture
Tagged bike tours, Bin Laden, Brits in CUba, condom adverts, cuba, Essex, film school, gold lame, karst, kitsch, Los Jasminas, Mum, nanny, passport, patchwork hillsides, reccy, resident, school holidays, tobacco houses, trekking, UNESCO, Viñales
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Telegram from Habana
I have so much to write about my new life that I have 20 blog posts in my head. I really don’t know where to begin. I am realising that my inability to write or get on line is more … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Uncategorized
Tagged Blossom in Cuba, Cuban men, Director, EICTV, machista, nanny, red wine, trippy, Viva Cuba
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In Limbo in Habana
My life has begun here in Havana but I still feel a little bit in limbo, mainly because the school term hasn’t begun for Rafa or the children …….. but after a few amateur mistakes, things are falling into place … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cuba, culture, Family, Film, Guatemala, Uncategorized
Tagged amateur, baguettes in Havana, Chrysler Voyager, cook, cuba, France, French, French International school Havana, Guatemala, Habana, Havana, international school, Juventud, mac external modem, marriage, nanny, role, rugby in Cuba, Thai Chi, traffic
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My Nanny State
Here in Guatemala all my friends have nannies, niñeras, muchachas or whatever terminology you care to use. It is par for the course, and a well known advantage of the third world lifestyle – a hangover from a colonial past, … Continue reading
Posted in Children, culture, Family, Guatemala, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged A A Milne, apartheid, chess, Guatemala, labour system, laughter, monopoly, muchachas, multi-tasking, nanny, nanny state, niñeras, serendipity, servants, smiles, tacuazin, tamales, Winnie the Pooh
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