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and palms with ginger lilies, pineapple gingers, upright and trailing
heliconias with anthuriums. Then in pride of place imported spray
carnations are used! Something I learnt about anthuriums is that
only the yellow central upright part is the actual flower, the
coloured surround is a leaf. It’s a bracket like the poinsettia.
They have a Mother’s Union, a Men’s Society and a Church Army
Group, attached to the church. What a treat awaited us the service
was about three hours long, we sang twelve hymns with help from
a fantastic Gospel Choir and the sermon given by the Rector
Reverend Canon Peter Haynes was forty-five minutes long and
quite entertaining in parts. It is a religious island. All the shops and
businesses close Saturday lunch time and don’t re-open until
Monday morning. There are over one hundred religious groups
and their places of worship ranging from wooden structures to
majestic coral stone structures. There are eleven parishes each with
its own cathedral all being Anglican built in the 17th century.
Followed by the Methodist, Moravians and the Roman Catholic
churches. After coffee, we went back to our hotel by bus. Not just
any bus but a ‘Reggae bus’ painted bright yellow complete with
the music of Bob Marley, we sped along the roads stopping along
the way only when people requested the bus to stop. On one
occasion during our stay while on the bus a passenger spoke to the
driver. The bus stopped at the next wayside cart the passenger got
off, we all waited, he purchased his lunch he got back on the bus
and we went on our way.
There are also ‘blue buses’ council owned with no music and have
regular bus stops. But not as much fun. We took a blue bus into
the capital Bridgetown, visited the cathedral of ‘St. Michael and
All Angels’. It was a Friday and Friday is flower day for the
cathedral arrangers. It’s our flower day too at Liverpool cathedral.
Anita Yarde was at the pulpit doing a splendid three-tier display.
She was surrounded by buckets of anthuriums, tulip gingers,
pittocorum, upright heliconia and gerbera in shades of pinks and
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