Monday 16th March 2015
Cyclone Pam, they
are saying, is the worst natural disaster in 'living memory' for the Pacific.
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| Mark and Leah |
Our Mark has managed to contact his family, most of whom
live in Mele village, near Port Vila.
They are OK…but I downloaded this photo of a village house and it looks
more than a bit chaotic. Apparently one
of his aunts slept soundly through the storm, then woke to go to the
toilet. She stood up and found herself
knee deep in flood water…
I don’t think
anyone really has any idea how the people on the more remote island are
faring. We loved Vanuatu. It is a very beautiful, and the people are
kind and generous.
On the outer islands
they live off the land – bananas, coconuts, fish, and rice. Too ghastly, to think of the havoc Cyclone Pam
will have wreaked…
On a much more
trivial and cheery note…Hot news!!
We are all wildly
excited to hear that Sam Wood is to be the new Bachelor…Yes I knw, tickytacky
reality TV…but oh how entertaining! All
the more so because we have a CONNECTION!
Very close, really…at a stretch… Sam is Angela and Chris’s nephew, son
of Andrew Wood. Angela is Pete’s sister…
Couldn’t really get much closer, now could it??
Angela rang me as soon as the information was released; she knows I
would be just as wildly excited as she is.
I immediately passed the news on to Claire and Katy, who are stretching
the connection as far as they can and who are…equally wildly excited!!
I haven’t told Pete yet. Not much point; he will not be wildly excited, and he won’t know what I am talking about. I imagine a furrowed brow, a bit of a blink blink what??
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| Cool Change |
We did hear a
funny story about the NZ series of the Bachelor, when we were in Vanuatu in
2012 (no cyclones…) We spent some time
with Don and Marilyn Logan, cruising the area on their beautiful catamaran,
Cool Change. They told us that Cool
Change had been hired by The Bachelor,
for one of the romantic moments. (There
are many romantic moments in The Bachelor…) Marilyn had to stay in the galley, making
cups of tea and generally looking after the crew, while Don drove the boat
around Waiheke Island. It was, unfortunately,
a freezing day, with icy wind whipping across the deck. The Bachelor and his romantic partner du jour had to frolic (romantically) on
the deck, in flimsy garments.) Marilyn
told us, in bitter tones, that Don kept galloping up to the bow to “rescue” the
bikini-clad RomanticMomentGirl whenever she looked to be in danger of losing
her flimsy garments while she kept on boiling the kettle and feeding the gang.
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| Don and Marilyn |
(Apparently over
10,000 applied to be The Bachelor!!!)
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