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Is this the final episode in "The Better Ed Than Dead" series? Apologies to Ellen for the translation ;) Photographer brushed by a plane -the BEA report

To rock the boat during the Great Folk Music Scare, one could play Bawdy Sea Shanties (1952) by Oscar Brand. It brought songs such as Good Ship Venus to the attention of impressionable victims of the Great Folk Music Scare... the true version of the Good Ship Venus that Loudon Wainwright recorded in 2006 was less fit for public consumption than Brand's and even a rendition from the Sex Pistols...

Or perhaps I read that NYT article and THEN thought of the father-in-law etc.

Disco! Another time portal I can descend into! My excuse for sea shanties came from a recollection of my dear departed father-in-law singing a G rated Barnacle Bill the Sailor to his 3 year old grandson, my son. That search led to the XXX rated version of BBtS and then into sea shanty territory.

Write your own shanty, a how-to guide with background tracks from the Royal Opera House... useful for anyone in the grips of resurgent interest in sea shanties, which I thought were as dead as disco...

Sadly what this means for SB with the latest numbers of covid at 43, is there has already been substantial community spread. This is just the beginning with more covid to be expected in the coming weeks. Testing and tracing will need to be a priority to prevent further spread.

Israel is the worlds guinea pigs.they will vaccinate their population faster than any western country.watch to see when herd immunitty starts.that was my last point.not to compare that we are slower than them.

Happy to learn that she is on the mend.

She is better today - just tired at this point, but must stay away from the hospital for a period of time.

As I drive around the island I am very impressed with the new sidewalks....

Ha ! I think we have a decided preference for the East end. Partially because new sidewalks for pedestrians make walking safer in many places. Not sure if any new sidewalks have been added to Sous le Vent end since we were last there?

Yes.

Paroisse Sous le Vent Paroisse Au Vent Carte № carte Quartier № carte Quartier

Got it. I have checked out the villa and the bedding arrangement doesn't work for us but love the location. Open to any others in this area, will checkout the Wimco and others too for this area.

May be worth considering getting tested in advance of a vaccine appointment, if there is a reason to believe recent potential exposure?

Another great one! A bully in the alley is an immobile drunk left behind by other drunks who are still mobile!

Great way to start the day, John! Love this...thanks for posting.

She believes she was infected, but showing no symptoms, when vaccinated. This all happened in a hospital setting with everyone in full PPE. The Pfizer vaccine is based on messenger RNA which “reprograms” the way T-cells fight the virus.

Do you mean infected by the person giving her the vaccine? Because as Jim A already mentioned, you can't get the virus from the vaccine. The vaccine works with the immune system, not by giving you a dose of dead virus. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong!

From today's edition of Le Journal, an explanation for some of the difference between the numbers which they posted on their webpage, and the official numbers from ARS Guadeloupe, translation by Google: On our website, on Tuesday January 12, we noted that 41 positive tests had been detected at the laboratory and 21 at the Red Cross screening center between January 4 and January 10. That's over43! When this raw data arrives at the Regional Health Agency, it tracks duplicates (positive people were able to go to the laboratory and to the Saint-Jean drive), smoothes the data compared to its previous calculations (the day of the test is not necessarily the day of the end of the tests) to give them consistency and to be able to compare these figures with those of previous weeks. The agency...

I booked their top tier ticket as a back up in case i didn't make my connection, i tried cancelling it so i could get the future credit minus the $30 fee, and none of that happened, they just gave me half of my money back and went dark. Amateur hour.

The place on the side street by where Sibarth is now was called Les Lauriers... I don't recall the lady's name.. maybe part of the the Gumbs family in Gustavia..

clear as mud...

The St Jean test site is in a tent at the back of the public parking lot in St Jean, near the cemetery. I don't know if it is possible to make an appointment, but your hotel should know. The free test is an antigen test, with results returned in 30-40 minutes. Bring your passports. It is possible, for a fee, to get tested in a hotel or villa. I do not have any details on that. Your hotel should be able to assist you.

Thanks Kevin. It has been hard to feel confident that we were getting the correct info. I will keep checking back in case there’s a change.