May the pie be with you: the lovebug menace Today was a big day. Today we were going to Yoder's Amish restaurant in Sarasota. After a quick Cherry Cobbler yogurt, we jumped in the car and headed straight out.We planned on visiting a few birding sites on the way to look for Florida Scrub Jays before hanging left towards Sarasota. The journey was enlivened by the usual unusual. A pest control company car with mouse ears and a tail - the ears lying flat whilst movi...

White Dwarfs & Cheesecake Woke to find Mr F out marathon training so I sat by the pool with today's Piña Colada yogurt and awaited his sweaty return. Whilst waiting, I assessed the status of my 'tan'. I do not tan as such. I do not even beige. All I get is a slow advance of freckles. I once got them as far as my fingers, but that involved a never-to-be-repeated six weeks in the Caribbean. Currently they were looking a little thin on the ground. As I was t...

Cypress knees and baby ribs We had an early start today - the fact that we'd been awake since 3.45am had absolutely nothing to do with it of course. After breakfast - today's yogurt flavour was Boston Cream Pie, I kid you not - we set out to explore the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary just northeast of Bonita Springs. Containing the world's largest subtropical Bald Cypress forest, and accessed via a 2 mile boardwalk, we had high hopes for a fun morning. Before we eve...

Bobbing along... Despite having the option of left-overs from last night's behemoth of a pizza, I oddly fancied something lighter for breakfast this morning. I'd decided in Walmart to purchase some yogurts to make a vain attempt at least, of one healthy meal a day. The choice of flavours available had been, unsurprisingly, pretty extensive. This morning's yogurt flavour was Cinnamon Roll and it did indeed taste of said pastry, minus all the calories. It looke...

Waffles, Walmart & waggy tails Woke up to find I had the villa all to myself. I had a vague, sleepy recollection of Mr Fiennes heading off birding at some horrendously early hour - which is fine by me as long as I'm allowed to go promptly back to sleep! The previous occupiers of the villa had left quite a lot of food behind, so I perused the kitchen for anything vaguely breakfast-oriented and came up with a vanilla yogurt - note to self, must go food shoppi...