Sunday Best
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 28 Jun 2015 22:57
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Sunday Best on Kioa Island
 Sunday Best – Chris, Steve, Me and Bear
All ashore for ten o’clock Mass, the
first time in my life I have been segregated, ladies on the right, men on the
left. Despite everyone speaking perfect English, the service was in Tuvaluan but
the minister did ‘welcome’ us in English and we did pick up a few words here and
there. The singing brought goose bumps and after the adults left the church the
little ones began their choir practise. We spoke to an elderly lady who would
gather a craft sitting tomorrow morning at ten o’clock.That organised, we went
for a walk along the beach.
  A kitchen
set at a jaunty angle and a carefully owned
home.
  We followed a chap pushing a wheelbarrow and he told us about his
pigs. This is where families build their pens and the tide washes the waste
away. If the tide is in they have to come and feed them by boat. We may consider
the pens a little too rustic but these are clearly
not pets, we watched them eat for a while. We may
think trapping turtles is terrible but meat is meat and nothing is
wasted.........
    Harsh but true. Life for pigs
on a Pacific Island.
 Beez
Neez sitting quietly.
 A pose from Big
Bear.
  A chap happy to
pose and one who thought he was well and truly hidden.
  Brittle stars
at the edge of low tide were busy
fishing.
   Time for Bear to take his skirt off
and tether Baby Beez.
   Monday. No sooner
than we were ashore the ladies gathered and laid out their
stalls in front of them in the Meeting Room. Very brisk business was
done, we didn’t barter a jot as the prices were amazingly low. Maj and I bought
something from each of the ladies and we had lots of fun. These lovely people
had asked nothing of us, no fees, no mooring charges and this was our way of
helping the village as a whole.
 We spent about fifty pounds on this
lot and now have bags and bits for all the
girls.
We settled our purchases into
quarantine in the cockpit, lifted the anchor and settled back in Buca Bay.
Tuesday. Bear gave Steve a lift to the wharf. There a very smart taxi took him
on the long journey via Savusavu, to the dentist in Labasa. Return trip, lunch,
a filling with a very nice dentist, all for less than a filling in the UK. This
made an excellent day for chores and housework. At brunchtime Bear radioed Maj
to join us for boiled eggs, sadly, no events and we all enjoyed the afternoon
sun before returning to our jobs. Washing dried beautifully and later Bear
delivered Steve home safely. Tomorrow off to Katherine Bay.
A happy Sunday best to
end.......
 ALL IN ALL A LOVELY PLACE,
SADLY TIME TO MOVE
VERY SPECIAL
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