A Little Bit of Somnambulism

Well we can hardly show a nude woman, so Streaking Bacon is the next best thing

Well we can hardly show a nude woman, so Streaking Bacon is the next best thing

Grab a coffee and a comfy seat, this is a long tale.

Picture the scene, a usual evening of a few glasses of FizzyBoobly then onto a 3 course meal although not sure Mrs Fogg enjoyed the French delicacy of snails in BBQ sauce followed by baby calves. So food done it was back to the cocktail lounge for more fizzy stuff, a scrabble whitewash (yep I kicked botty again) and then a round of Backgammon where Mrs Fogg’s losing streak just got worse.

A nice romantic wander along the beach at midnight trying to find a stone for Mrs Fogg to take back with her, with a bottle of Baileys in hand (don’t worry we will get to the point in a moment, just setting the scene). And then an oh so labored stagger back to the room through the multitude of toads.

Ah to sleep, perchance to dream and within milliseconds of her head hitting the pillow, she was unconscious and snoring (who says over 40s can’t handle their booze). I read until about 1am then gently drifted off to enjoy a nice respite from the mozzies biting.

SLAM went the outside door at 4.30am with Mrs Fogg stood there looking at me in her rather nice birthday suit, shouting at me “where were you, I went to the toilet and you weren’t there”, obviously dazed and confused I am looking at Mrs Fogg stood in the outside doorway and at the toilet door on the other side of the room, missing the ever so obvious “why would I need to be in to loo with you”. Still ranting at me, although a little less now, I am trying to wake up to understand what I was missing (alien encounters, WW3 the final countdown, etc). Mrs Fogg then started babbling about going to the toilet, in the restaurant some 400 meters away. Why when we had a perfectly adequate one next door, and and I suppose an even better one would be why would you go all that way STARK NAKED?

Mrs Fogg calmly climbed back into bed and promptly proceeded to snore, leaving me looking in bewilderment at the passing events, oh well I’d better go to sleep as well.

So this am, Mrs Fogg gently wakens as I’m looking at her and then I casually asked, did you go anywhere special during the night? Oh I wish I had my camera for the expression of dawning realisation slapped across someone’s face.

So Mrs Fogg, explain…..

Ahem, well….I had this weird dream that I needed the toilet and had to walk all the way down to the ones in the restaurant. In my dream I can remember looking down as I wandered through the hotel gardens and thinking “oh I seem to have forgotten my pants” Thinking nothing of this (it was after all just a dream) I ambled slowly to the restaurant, into the cocktail lounge and through to the toilet. I even remember washing and drying my hands! I wandered back into the cocktail lounge and wondered where Mr Fogg was and may (bit unclear here) have actually wandered through into the main restaurant and to the bar close to the main beach to find him.

I don’t remember seeing anyone, I do remember feeling disappointed that the bar was closed, imagine if it had been open and a naked sleepwalker asked for two glasses of champagne!!

Still, one of the security guards who patrols the grounds waved a friendly hello this morning……

Thats my first ever sleepwalk! I thought the dream felt very real at the time. Good job I did not decide to go for a swim too. I would have walked past the pool twice on my trip.

The Birthday Bucket

Nice Triffids

Nice Triffids

Sorry that should be bouquet shouldn’t it. These are Mrs Foggy’s flowers which unfortunately she will be requires to leave at the hotel, but we took some photos of them.

All set for a wonderful evening meal (again), more champagne and more ass whooping at scrabble or even Bsckgammon.

Mrs Fogg is now on her third book and I’ve even managed to get half way through one (without pictures I may add). The wonderful thing here is not watching a single bit of the fools lantern even tho you can here some Brits racing back to their rooms for the latest trivia of “EastBrookCoronation Farm Street”.

There has been music every evening including a wonderful pianist last night, who played the Steinway with his eyes closed and no sheet music (suppose it’s not much use if you got your eyes closed). He rattled of a diverse range of music and applauded himself after every song.

Oh god I do hope it’s not jazz night tonite, if there is one type of music I can’t stand, it’s Jaaazzz, nice.

2 Stone heavier here.

International Adopt a Crab Day

Meet Boris

Meet Boris

With but a couple days to go in the island paradise, of eat, drink, sleep and slob, we are happy to announce the 13 July as the International Adopt a Crab Day (IACD). For the last week we have been joined by Boris, our not so shy at all type of crab, who has come out during our lunch to watch us and we have hand fed him with leaves.

Today more slobbing although Mrs Fogg went for a yogi session at 8am whilst I used the practice studio in the midday sun (mad dogs n all) to spend an our exercising and reminding myself of my Aikido moves.

What shall we do the rest of the day, well it’s too hot and sticky, so more relaxing in the pool.

Be Fraid o The Fog

Tis the Fog

Tis the Fog

Doors firmly closed at 6pm for the WHO recommended dusting and sure enough it starts, but what’s this we see a lone figure in the mist, is it human or is it a ghost from a long lost ship wreck of the Elizabeth Dane out to avenge those that settled in Antonio Bay, just slightly misguided again by the bright light house?

Who knows, but he is carrying a cutlass, arrr.

Piton in Paradise

Ah Piton

Ah Piton

Not unlike any other day we have eaten, relaxed, chilled and done nuffin all day. A slow womble over to the Windjammer Landing, which is a mass of timeshare and thud, thud, thud hip hop 247 and then a chance to stop for 30 mins whilst a mini hurricane rips through drenching everything and everyone.

And now we are sat on our veranda enjoying our very own fridge dispensed Piton Lager beer, nice.

Tonight is mosquito fogging night so don’t stray between 6pm and 7pm and if you do, don’t breath it in. The Fog she be arisin.

We’ve Had SEGs On The Beach

Mrs Fogg With the Pink Champagne from the Finks

Mrs Fogg With the Pink Champagne from the Finks

Well Mrs Fogg managed a total of 3 bottles of champoo last night and half a bottle of Baileys as we watched the moon on the Caribbean Ocean into the wee small hours finishing her 40th Birthday celebration.

Today saw us with a leisurely get up (around 7am), breaky and then to the pool for a few hours before lunch in our reserved open air hut.

This afternoon we went and did a Segway Tour of Mount Pimard on the oh so super and rugged X2, going all off road with our cool guide Shaka. Lunch was supplied as a variety of picked fruits prepared by Shaka and Coconut water to wash it down. 2 hours of fun finishing off by racing across the beach at Rodney Bay doing 14mph. Absolutely brilliant. We also went to feed Koi Carp with bread and the Koi attacked the bread like piranha, that was amazing to watch.

Tonight is the Managers cocktail party with a load of new arrivals so that should be as interesting as watching milk curdle. Last time we were here they had hired a new Restaurant Manager who was painfully shy and seemed to do nothing but stand and stare blankly so we nicknamed him Tattoo out of Fantasy Island. The same guy is still around and none of his charm or confidence has increased. He still stands and stares blankly although he does appear to have been demoted to waiting tables

Segway Tour of St.Lucia

A Fantastic Birthday Ending

Happy Birthday  Mrs Fogg

Happy Birthday Mrs Fogg

OMG on arriving at dinner this evening it turns out that Mr and Mrs Fink had organised some beautiful flowers on the table, beautiful Rose champagne AND Mr Fogg had organised a big birthday cake. How wonderful!!

So , we drank the champoo, ate some of the cake and shared the rest with the guests and staff and had a fab time!! and Mrs Fogg has never had so many people coming up and wishing her a Happy Birthday, oh and she had a pianist play Sweet Caroline and Happy Birthday to her.

Thank you all for a wonderful birthday. Still cannot believe I am 40!!

Happy Birthday Me!

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Oh my! I’ve finally hit the big 40 and what a day! Having hijacked Mr Fogg’s phone ( mine has stayed firmly switched off, I’m on holiday dontcha know!) I can share my day with you.

Late rise, fab breaky as normal in our island paradise followed by a return to the room and BEAUTIFUL exotic flowers!

Next a nice chill by the pool followed by lovelly lunch and access to a chocolate fountain and yummy marshmallows.

Then Mr Fogg tricked me into getting showered ( yummy BIG showers here…) and going to sit on the beach to watch the sunset. We ambles down to the beach ONLY to have a huge speedboat waiting for our very own private party! One bottle of champagne later and several glasses of Rose and we were sailing the waves in a 12 seated speedboat just for us and our skipper Delroy. What can I say? Wonderful, romantic, spectacular, fast, smooth, just wonderful. Mr Fogg has done it again! Bliss.

If life truly begins at 40, it’s got a lot to live up to so far…..

Smash N Crab

Anyone wanna play sticks?

Anyone wanna play sticks?

Another wonderful evening meal with a beautiful young lady (guess I need to get used to going to dinner with an old lady from tomorrow night).

We finished the evening (after listening to one guy tell staff his wife wouldn’t be joining him and his daughter because she got too drunk, nice) by playing scrabble (I won again) and backgammon, whilst watching the staff battle with a king crab that had secured himself in the settee. Very entertaining.

Anyway tomorrow the birthday fun begins (about 1pm UK time), but I will get Mrs Foggy to do a birthday bloggy and tell you all about the day.

Rain Forrest Sky Ride & Grub

That's not your spot Move

That’s not your spot Move

After waking too early for the sky ride we eventually got picked up, last on the list after 2 American couples, one very quiet and the other in their late forties chewing gum the entire bus ride.

Now we love America, but like many cultures they have some interesting quirks, one of which is the inability to filter out their every thought before it hits their mouths. So what you tend to get is a constant inane stream of every single thought regardless and then some. We were treated to every little thought that this couple had for the 1 hour ride to and from the Sky Ride and then the hour long ride itself, wow. Oh and the ride was crap, basically you get in a cable car, go up and over the Forrest and get told a few things about the trees (from a girl wid poowa engl ish), then come back down and no it’s not just me, even Mrs Fogg thought it was naff.

Back in time for lunch, seated outside in a hut listening to a steel band, we were then treated to a display from a pouting family who always sit in that spot and it’s their last Saturday here and it’s their daughters birthday tomorrow, so move. Mrs Fogg was quite polite and restrained, but pouty people were adamant they get their favourite lunch spot or we’ll stomp our feet and scweem and scweem until we make ourselves sick. In the Caribbean life I too short and hot to argue. Nowt queer as folk.

One more day of 39 here.