We moved to Davie near Fort Lauderdale in Florida in February 2019. The spaghetti junctions of the Florida turnpike and just the massiveness of it all has been a bit of a shock after living on tiny little Barbados, but we’re slowly finding our way.

I’m loving the lizards. Little dark geckos the kids get to bite onto their earlobes where they hang like earrings. Lightning-fast, long-legged running lizards with their tails held curled and high. Massive iguanas sunning themselves by the canals, looking like sentinels of the dinosaurs, biding their time,  waiting for the zap…