With this weekend came the unexpected death of one of the most respected and loved ex-patriots on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic. Ginnie Bedggood, alternatively known as ‘Lambada’ on the D.R.1 forums passed away unexpectedly. I never met her in person, but had many exchanges with her on the forums; the depth of [...]

In my last post, my son is holding a small black and white dog in the last photo. The little puppy belonged to Franzie his friend. Today Puchi was run over and killed by a driver entering our apartments too fast. How very sad. Very sweet dog, short happy life.

Don’t buy a Dell computer…….just one year old and the motherboard breaks down, requiring replacement. It not humidity (we have aircon) nor is it electrical surges (we don’t have them in this apartment). It’s just bad quality. New motherboard and new outer casing (because the Dell casing does not fit a standard available motherboard) – [...]