Category Archives: barbados

Barbados 2012

Barbados 2012, a set on Flickr. Memories from a visit to my former home.

Barbados Film Censorship Board bans Black Swan (via Barbados Free Press)

“SMH” as we say on Twitter. We don’t know if the ballet horror film Black Swan was banned for violence, sex or a combination of the two. Ho hum. It will be out on satellite or DVD before you know it. Sure, we have to have standards over what is shown in public, but when [...]

The Society for a Quieter Barbados

I was recently sent a link to this site, which is the web presence of an organisation that campaigns for the abatement of noise pollution in Barbados. After initial prejudice about the slightly Pythonesque name of the society, it turns out to be a professionally produced affair with some interesting insights into the daily (and [...]

Relocation and linguistic vandalism

Today a moan: As a frequent user (and sometime manager) of recruitment websites that allow you to configure customised daily emails containing jobs filtered according to your criteria, I have become something of a connoisseur of the technology. You can appreciate then, my exasperation at receiving emails every morning from a particular site which does [...]

Furniture

The UK parent division of Courts, the furniture retailer has gone into administration. Shops have closed and there have been reports of violent incidents involving furious customers who have not received their goods. It appears Courts will live on outside the UK.

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