Here we are then – sauntering through September – the middle of the month already !! Last week I was told about a great new centre opening in Palmetto Point – so I went along and had a chat with Betera Taylor who along with her husband Owen Taylor is behind the new venture.
It is called The Myriad and is sited at Palmetto Point crossroads. It is a community centre based business that offers the opportunity for various entrepreneurial local people to come together as a community and offer their services – take a look at their flyers to see the variety of different services available.
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Betera and Owen Taylor have a farm up in Hatchet Bay and they distribute and sell their produce throughout the island from the base in Palmetto Point. They are now employing a couple of local young men to do the deliveries for them – getting their produce out there and creating a couple of jobs…. Plus they offer a site for other farmers to sell their own produce.
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Betera Taylor is a vibrant and enthusiastic woman with some great ideas for bringing the community together for everyone’s benefit. The network that she and her husband create can do a huge amount of good with the variety of services they can offer.
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This is a difficult time economically on the island – as well as the rest of the world – and this is an innovative idea that has huge potential. Let’s wish Owen and Betera the very best in this new venture – we will be supporting them wherever we can.
We had a lovely evening at Colman Towers last week with Angelika Bacchus and Sandy – they came for supper and brought champagne and wine – wonderful gifts that were consumed that evening ! Maybe it was the champagne that did it but before we knew it – it was 10.30pm – way past the Colman’s normal bedtime – and on a school night as well ! We had a tasty tomato salad – recipe by Ottolenghi from his book called Simple. Thank you to Cassius Colman for turning me on to that particular recipe. Then we ate an old favorite – trofie pasta with chargrilled salmon and asparagus, broccoli and peas with chopped fresh herbs and lemon zest. No desert as we were all stuffed ….
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These evenings with friends are precious at a time when restaurants are so limited here on the island – plus I actually prefer the intimacy of a small gathering where you can really talk to your friends.
Last snippet this week is a recommendation for a Netflix program – called My Octopus Teacher. It is a very moving and unusual documentary film that Bob and I watched the other evening – I hope you enjoy it too….. Many lessons to learn from it…..
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