Moving BajanThings to the Ollie block theme
This post about transitioning to the Ollie block theme is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. Update 20th August 2024 – based on our success in transitioning BajanThings to Ollie we have upgraded to Ollie Pro and we have cleaned…
Transitioning from a WordPress Classic theme to a WordPress Block Theme…
This post about making the transition from a WordPress classic theme to a WordPress block theme (aka FSE theme) is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. This is going to be a work-in-progress post trialling the move from a WordPress…
Tent Bay, St. Joseph, Barbados
As part of the 2024 new year update and spring clean we have updated the BajanThings homepage. The new BajanThings homepage features a hero image of a fishing boat at Tent Bay, St. Joseph. Going forward we aim to change the hero image on the homepage regularly – and will add a homepage hero images…
The Bush Teas of Barbados – Iris Bayley
Patricia Bayley Mull sent us this pre-publication copy of her mother’s work on The Barbados Bush Teas. This paper was published in 1949 see: “The Bush-Teas of Barbados” by Iris Bayley, The Journal of The Barbados Museum and Historical Society – Vol. XVI No. 3 (May 1949). Iris Bayley is also referred to as Iris…
John Richard Archer – the first black mayor of a London borough in 1913
John Richard Archer was the first black mayor of a London Borough. In November 1913 he was elected for a one year term as Mayor of the London Borough of Battersea. The the first black person to be elected as a Mayor in England was: Dr. Allan Glaisyer Minns. Born in the Bahamas in 1858,…
Increasing the mobile PageSpeed Insights score from 26 to 90+ using WordPress Astra Pro theme hosted on SiteGround
This post about increasing the mobile Page Speed Insights score of BajanThings is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. November 2024 update: In October 2024 we renewed our FlyingPress and FlyingCDN subscription. BajanThings PageSpeed Insights score hovers around the 97…
P/O George HF Inniss: 31st May 1916 to 5th February 1941
Bajan pilot P/O George HF Inniss aged 24 and crew from 106 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command were killed-in-action on 4th/5th February 1941 when their aircraft a Handley Page Hampden Mk. I, AD750, crashed nose first at La Marionnière farm, La Marsoire, Pont-Saint-Martin, Loire-Atlantique (2 km SE of Aéroport Nantes Atlantique). Their aircraft was hit by…
F/O Leo Leslie Schultz RAAF – 1921 to 1990
Errol Barrow’s crew in RAF 88 Squadron “B” Flight, Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF) during World War II consisted of: English pilot Andy Cole and the two Australian rear wireless operator and air gunners (WAGs): Leo Schultz and Allen “Shorty” Stewart. BajanThings has covered both Errol Barrow’s time in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and his…
A BajanThings 101 on AI Chatbots: ChatGPT and Bard. Why you MUST fact check the output…
Here is a BajanThings 101 on AI Chatbots – using Errol Barrow’s time in the RAF from 1940 to 1947 as the reference source. Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatBots like ChatGPT and Bard are being promoted as the “next BIG thing”. With any new technology, there are bound to be some teething problems and issues that need…
Rediffusion Barbados (1934 -1997)
Barbados Rediffusion was born 31 years before Barbados was granted its independence from Britain in 1966 and it died peacefully exactly 31 years after that event. IPS Correspondent Terry Ally – “Barbados Rediffusion: The End of an Era in Broadcasting History” For a long while in the 1950s to 1960s, Rediffusion was the lone radio…
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