Island Man.

@Svidrigaylov (390)

Guadeloupe

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Emigrated again.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 25 Sep 23

So I've moved back to Scotland. Hard to leave Guadeloupe but I really couldn't face taking anymore rich tourists about in a leaky boat round the private coves and beaches for their little parties and assignations and complaining...

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House of Alphonse.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 13 Mar 22

I neither own nor rent the house in which I live: it belongs to my cousin, but he lives in Martinique where he has a little woman on the go but she refuses to marry him. So I live here, rent free and with few responsibilities,...

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Feet in the river.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 7 Mar 22

I sat for a long while this evening and watched cars rolling across Sainte-Marie bridge while the sun was going down. It's a bit of an ugly old bridge, all concrete and rusted metal that looks all out of place rising up out of the...

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Sunshine and rain and more sunshine.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 6 Mar 22

Sunshine all day with rain tonight. That’s the kind of weather I like because the world smells so fresh in the morning after a good soak. Still not a lot of tourists on the island so Madeleine’s bar is usually quiet with only...

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Peacock pie.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 5 Mar 22

I have waited many hours and still sleep has not arrived. The night is warm but I dare not open the bedroom window because the noise of the peacocks in the garden is deafeningly loud - worse even than the bagpipes that tortured my...

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Busy bar all week.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 10 Jan 22

New Year saw a fair bit of trade for Madeleine’s beach bar. The temperature was always around 25C in the afternoon and plenty people wanted taken round the coast to Pago beach so my cousins boat was booked solid all week and I was...

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Aspirin, bananas and lemons.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 15 Nov 21

I believed my brother when he told me that if you eat a banana and drnk coke at the same time it's like taking drugs. That scared me. I always made sure that I only drank coke if I hadn't eaten a banana that day, but I was only...

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Midnight caller

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 16 Sep 21

A monkey showed up at my door last night. I think it was maybe Louise's way of telling me that I blew it with her, but after she made such a fool of herself last night at Madeleine's Beach Bar, singing "Toodle pip the night" at...

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Rum and Louise.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 15 Sep 21

“Toodle pip the night” is Louise’s favourite song to dance to when her rum intake passes everyone else’s. That’s not the reason that I left her, but it certainly was an incentive. Tonight she sang it at Madeleine’s Beach Bar and...

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Fever

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 29 Oct 19

My injured foot swelled up, my temperature rose sharply, and the doctor has confirmed that what I had warned him about actually happened - the wound has become infected. Now I'm on antibiotics, but the problem with that is that...

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OUCH!!

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 24 Oct 19

My left foot on something sharp when I jumped out of the boat into the sea this morning. A rock, a spiny fish, a carelessly discarded piece of trash? I don't know, but I had to go to the doctor to get the wound cleaned out and...

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Louise who?

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 23 Oct 19

My haughty ex turned up as expected at Madeleine's Beach Bar last night with a new man on her arm and he left after half an hour and hasn't been seen since - that's what I'm told, though I wasn't asking. So hopefully she'll be...

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Bad news.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 22 Oct 19

Louise is back in town and this is not good news for anyone. She went off to Martinique last year after we broke up and has been back a few times, each time with a different man who she paraded before me. Now Madeleine tells me...

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Day off - toilet duty tomorrow.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 17 Oct 19

At last I've had a day off. Taking a bunch of rich tourists on a picnic to a remote beach every other day might seem like a dream job, but it's not. I'm there to cater to their every stupid whim, not to enjoy myself. I can't drink...

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There is always one idiot.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 16 Oct 19

Yesterday was picnic day. I ferried 12 tourists out to Paka beach on Pogo's boat after having done a toilet run in the morning. They all gathered on the dock beside Madeleine's Beach Bar as planned, and once the food was loaded up...

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There's a solution to every problem.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 11 Oct 19

Going for a picnic on a deserted beach accessible only by boat raises a problem - toilets. Every few days I sail out with a load of tourists, maximum 12, and we swim, picnic and lie in the sun for up to three hours, so what...

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Day off for a good scrub.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 10 Oct 19

No tourists to herd today thankfully. On the down side however is the fact that my veranda hasn't had a good scrubbing in months and the many visits from next door's chickens are in evidence. So today is a day for scrubbing and...

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Day one on the new job - success!

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 9 Oct 19

So I took a boat load of tourists down to Paka Beach today - the first of many my cousin hopes. There wasn't an American among them, mostly French, but I got to speak English for the sake of two German ladies who spoke English but...

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Enough, enough!

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 8 Oct 19

I've quit my job at the doggy hotel. I told my cousin I couldn't listen to any more barking dogs and hissing cats so I'm off. I'm going back to work with/for my other cousin, the one who tries to show tourists a good time. I told...

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Not a happy place to be.

Island Man. @Svidrigaylov (390) • Guadeloupe 7 Oct 19

This job working at a doggy hotel is ruining my life! I sleep over at it three times a week and each time one spoiled pooch wakens and barks at its own shadow they all start up and it's ages before they calm down. No sleep is to...

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