User talk:Ziggyblackstar

March 2017
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Mandalay Estate Mustique, from its old location at User:Ziggyblackstar/sandbox/Mandalay Estate Mustique. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. KGirlTrucker81 huh? what I've been doing 16:27, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mandalay Estate Mustique (March 5)
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SwisterTwister  talk  20:15, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

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 Mandalay Estate Mustique 

Introduction

The Mandalay Estate is a 6.2 acre, Balinese style villa perched on the hills above Britannia Bay on the idyllic island of Mustique. The property faces west down to the amazing white sand beaches and crystal clear sea.

The island

Lord Glenconner, formerly Colin Tennant, bought the island in 1958 intending to have the island run as a cotton plantation. However, this was not successful and he created the idyllic destination of Mustique. In 1960 media attention rose when Lord Glenconner gifted land to Princess Margaret in as a wedding gift 11.

David Bowie

‘Britannia Bay House’, as it was originally named, was built for the British rock legend David Bowie in 1989 in collaboration with renowned architects Arne Hassiqvist, known as ‘The man who built Mustique’ and New York designer Robert Litwiller 1. Bowie craved a property on the picturesque Caribbean island that was far away from the expected, in fact he stated “I wanted something as unlike the Caribbean as possible” 4

At the centre of the villa is a koi pond with waterfalls and an infinity pool, surrounded by a series of Balinese pavilions. Bowie was fond of the villas layout saying “The thing about Mandalay is that it is broken up into little areas that you can get lost in”. Bowie spent much time at his unique home on the island, attributing his lack of being able to work there to the outstanding views from the villa “The house is such a tranquil place that I have absolutely no motivation to write things when I’m there” said Bowie 1.

Felix Dennis

Bowie then sold the estate for $5m dollars to business tycoon and poet Felix Dennis in 1994 4. Felix Dennis renamed the villa to a more suitable ‘Mandalay’ 8.

Dennis was keen to preserve the villa as Bowie had intended and through the years added numerous details reflecting his own style. Dennis also added a ‘Writer’s Cottage’ which was used regularly by the poet and publisher, in fact many of his most well-known pieces of work including “How to get rich” and “A glass half full” were produced in the Writer’s Cottage.

Dennis began writing poetry in 1999 9after a bout of illness and wrote Island Dreams - 99 poems from Mustique with the Laughing Buddha being used on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please in May 2015 10.

Felix Dennis spent five months of the year on the island and wrote some of his most popular poetry whilst owning the Mandalay Estate 13. Inspired by the scene as the sun goes down from Mandalay, Dennis wrote;

''A ball of fire is spilling in the sea

The empty sky flamingo-pink and grey

Cicada songs creak out the end of day

A choir of tree-frogs whistle: “Come to me!”''

Dennis worked with the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to give each of the 12,500 secondary school children a laptop 13 in 2014.

Present day

After the death of Felix Dennis on 22 June 2014,the Mandalay Estate was put up for sale and sold for a reported price 6 of £14 million to entrepreneur Simon Dolan. There have been numerous press articles to say that the estate is now available to rent for the first time ever, for a reported $40k dollars a week 8. The villa has five bedrooms including one in what was once David Bowie's recording studio and another in the Writers Cottage where Felix Dennis wrote his poetry. The celebrity history of the villa has been kept with original furniture and decor from David Bowie with additions from Felix Dennis.

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Dr Strauss  talk  12:22, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Mandalay Estate Mustique has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Mandalay Estate Mustique. Thanks! SwisterTwister  talk  19:20, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mandalay Estate Mustique (March 12)
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Acalycine (talk) 00:39, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mandalay Estate Mustique has been accepted
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You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Yaxu (talk) 21:41, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
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October 2020
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COI
Hello Simon - before making any further contributios to Simon Dolan you may wish to review  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.70.168 (talk) 18:49, 27 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, this is not Simon. Have the amendments caused an issue as I added them as facts?Ziggyblackstar (talk) 18:54, 27 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello Simon - in 3 years you have only contributed to a very small number of articles, and all of which are directly connected to Simon Dolan: this is highly suspecious. Also you have not added facts, you have added opinion such as recently the in the parts highlighted in bold: Dolan joined forces with leading wedding venue operator Cripps Barn Group Ltd to halt the Government’s latest lockdown laws that are destroying the £130 billion hospitality industry.