Your livelihood can disappear 🌩 in a moment

A little drama was played out right in front of us.The people from the village that has the fishing rights to our bay decided that it was time to re-establish the prohibition on fishing. (They imposed a ban in 2019, but lifted it when the COVID thing happened, because...

I don’t want you as a “customer”

Yes, it’s true. I do NOT want “customers” for any of my businesses. And neither should you! According to the dictionary, a “customer” is “a person who buys goods or services from a shop or business.” You see, it says nothing...

The banging was on a canoe…

Recently at my desk, I was distracted by a loud banging.Looking up from my computer and out the window, I could see a man hammering away on something in the grass.On closer inspection, it was Shem, a guy from up the road, who was repairing his outrigger canoe (or...

Fencing wire + rubber = fish

A movement outside my office window caught my eye…Glancing out I saw two guys walking on the beach carrying about 20 freshly-caught fish on a string.I raced out and asked them if I could take this photo for you…https://in.vu/fishSo why does Fencing Wire...

“He is like a shell fish”

“He is like a shell fish””Don't YOU be a shell fish!” Read on…One of our gardeners was having a bit of a moan about the other one: “Hemi gat fasin sel fis” he said in Bislama, which translated means “He is like a...

Peace of Mind in Paradise

I routinely ask people I meet here in Vanuatu “What is it about Vanuatu that makes you want to stay here?” I get many different replies, but a common theme in almost all the answers is “Freedom” and they go on to give some illustration of the...