My good friend, Ellen Carol, is releasing a new CD and holding a party to celebrate!

If you’re in Toronto on Thurs. Dec 13th, drop on by The Cadillac Lounge (1296 Queen St. W.) for some great tunes and good times. Doors open at 8 p.m. and admission is $20 - and includes a copy of Ellen’s new CD Slidin’. Please tell Ellen I said, Hooray! Congratulations!

Think I’ll listen to my copy of Buttercup Hamsterjuice right now!

You can find out more about Carol and her music by linking here, here, here, and here.

It was a short visit, but Ann & Steve have promised to come back in the late Fall, and we also hope to meet up in Toronto this summer if I can swing a trip at the same time they plan to be there.

Ann Vanderhoof and Steve Manley aboard Receta

We had a delightful evening on Receta along with Patricia, Alexandra and Robert, enjoying a few drinks and Ann’s wonderful cooking. Then the group of us went to the Frangi for Thurs. night jump-up. This morning, Ann & Steve sailed south, and Alexandra & Robert left for Barbados on their way home to Newfoundland. New friends, old friends, some very old and dear friends, spent time with us at our house and at various get-togethers on Bequia this past week. Great times! Thanks everyone!

Receta, front and centre, as seen from The View

The online Short Story Writing Course has been posted and there are still four weeks left in the Travel Writing Course I’ve been taking. Now that my distractions are gone, and life is back to normal, I need to get cracking and catch up!

Receta is moored down below us at Princess Margaret Beach. Steve is clearing customs, and we will all meet up later this afternoon once they are settled in. It’s great to have them back on Bequia again! They’ve been travelling south from Toronto since last summer.

I promise pictures will be posted here tomorrow.

Ann Vanderhoof wrote the great book, An Embarrassment of Mangoes - something we have at the moment on our tree out front, and, coincidentally, a topic I had planned to write a post about today anyway.