Bim, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43). Well I really can’t count the ways, but I’m going to highlight one for each year I’ve been away.

Bim, I love you more than …

1. De Barbados green monkey love crops they neither sow nor grow
2. Gorg want tuh keep drinks coming … wid no chaser
3. I love Bajan cussing and consider it an underrated artform
4. A coconut cooler
5. Sugar cakes, tamarind balls and guava cheese
6. A rum shop cheese cutter
7. Mars barring Puff on his bicycle
8. My aunt’s cou-cou and flying fish (without slush)
9. I love hiking and hiking on de Rock
10. Annie’s macaroni pie
11. Ras loves music, Harry loves gardening and B is easy like a Sunday morning
12. S-Bend pepper sauce
13. Sunset on the west coast
14. A recycling bin, an LED bulb, a low-flush toilet, and a solar panel
15. Bajans love rum and pork, and Kadooment
16. Fat porks, cashews, sea grapes, dunks, and tambrinds
17. Hard Wine, Ruff Wuk, A Brekin’ A Slow Wine, Head Gone, Ladies Rule, Tequila, W.I. Cultuh, Benup, Culture, Volcano, Ragga Ragga, I Want a Plantation … Let me just say Bajan soca and calypso
18. Heaven on Earth by De Opels
19. Auntie Jenny’s fishcakes
20. Miami beach on a hot day … And a few extras because I miss you and 20 just aren’t enough 😁
21. Roast corn
22. Azizah’s jewelry
23. My batik wrap shorts that are over 20 years old … that I wear every single time I’m in Bim 🤣
24. Liming
25. My fountain pen …
26. Hendy loved his gutter perk and Slade aka Tony loved his roller
27. A cream soda
28. Views of the east coast
29. Cassava pone
30. Oistins Library

Bim, How do I love thee? I could never count all the ways, but here are 56 more reasons why 😊.

More than anything else, no matter how far I roam, Bim-Barbados will always mean home, family and friends 🥰.

Happy 56th birthday Barbados. Love Always, Mechelle 😘.

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