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Re-united with his family, Alex Wade, pictured above, 58 from west Cornwall, announced, “Its been emotional, I spent the longest night of my life fighting off small birds who seemed determined to make my life a misery. I made smoke signals and banged rocks together” Wade, who was found  at 6.48am this morning, put up a fierce fight. He was  painting a medium sized self portrait in oils when he was discovered by confused twitcher/rescuers. ”We were actually looking for a flock of Golden Barbed Winkle Snouts, and we stumbled across this rather odd chap grubbing about in the sand , I think he’s frightened all the Golden Barbed Winkle Snouts away . He came out swinging, the boy has a hefty left hook on him”  said Boss Hogg, Secretary of the BTS (Barbados Twitchers Society) “But we are happy to have helped the poor old bugger out”.

 Wades wife, K said “Alex often wanders off, I dont know what all the fuss is about”?

An Embassy spokesman, Mr Jesus Daniels said “Wade will be re-patriated as soon as his nasty rash clears up”.