An Irish girl and an English girl walk into a bar to talk about their favourite things. Nothing out of the ordinary? Well except the bar is on the tiny volcanic island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, a place where everybody knows your name, and the barman knows your order, a place where a Union…
In this episode we kick off with Aine's traumatic break down on the side of the Shark's Valley walk, followed by a chat about our latest podcasts we've been listening to and series we have watched. Featuring: Black Mirror, Click Bait, Table Manners, The Moth, Hey Stranger!, Serendipity Soup.
In this episode we focus on Mindfulness for Stargazers and discuss deep feeling and the big outdoors with author and recent St Helena resident Mark Westmoquette.
Aine and Nicole, having been fully vaccinated, travel between 5 different countries on a 5 week trip in May-June 2021. Exploring and taking some R&R whilst testing negative for COVID-19 8 times. St Helena - UK - Maldives - Spain - Gibraltar - UK - St Helena.
It's February 2021 and Aine and Nicole welcome you to our first episode of series 2; we discuss the Curtis Sittenfeld book called Rodham about Hillary Clinton, the Netflix Film The Dig, an article about life in outer space, and why koalas drive cars and people put onions in their bathrooms.
Round up of the most favourite things we have read, watched and listened to over the last 12 months and a forward look to the rest of 2021.
Over several Gin and Tonics, discussing movie theatres, memories of the smell of the popcorn, Bond movies, books to films, art house cinemas, Room with a View, Schindler's List, Love Actually and lots more.
Love it or hate it, we cover the joys of fancy dress, the good, the bad and the ugly.
It's the first episode since the Pandemic, and podcast popularity is sweeping the world. So it's fitting to talk about our favourite podcasts. Along with a discussion about the bizarreness it feels being one of the few inhabited places on earth no-rona (COVID free)
Tim Burton, Emily Dickinson, the tweeting birds of Half Tree Hollow, Aine's funeral plans, and an Onion. Extreme apologies for the listening quality on this one, we are trialing podcasting outside...
Falling over, wardrobe malfunctions, false alarms, a catalog of embarassments, featuring a couple of pesky mynah bird interruptions we kept in the recording for the lark!
Featuring Colin's Bar, ye old Cheshire Cheese, Sky Garden, The Box, Old Man Pubs, the Mule Yard and Donny's, and a complete tangent about whether small places are in fact boring.
Aine and Nicole, over a glass of prosecco and Bombay mix, talk about favourite Christmas and New Year's memories, Christmas on St Helena, the Festival of Lights, and fighting Asthma during the festive season.
In this podcast we rabbit on about grey hair, Wenzel's donuts, Shantaram, Dr Seuss and Bridget Jones. Special Guest Appearence from Mama Pat.
Getting caught up in Juarez, top gear in the Alps, tango in Argentina, getting deep in New York and the slow boat to St Helena.