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Eating a Granny Smith with a faint aroma of insecticide, which is slightly numbing to the tongue; lovely (not). It is very difficult to get good fruit and vegetables here and I have become diligent about washing everything. But when you don’t have any water to speak of, you are certainly up against it as […]

So you think it’s hot back home? Here is a picture of a great big fiery ball setting in the sky last night near where I am living. It’s called the sun!Humidity is now becoming a serious problem; walked home from the office last Thursday and was pouring sweat from my face for the first […]

Amalia and Susi in swinging form! Both will be running in this year’s Minithon on Mon Oct 31, so hope to be home and training with them soon. Yesterday, got so frustrated, I ended up running around my appartment for 15 minutes and then trying out an exercise routine from the soon-to-be- published ‘Let’s Run’ […]

Free Jaguar for the first 50 customers? Sounds good to me, I thought – I’ll go right in there, buy my newspapers and packet of Smarties and pick up the keys.It’s not quite as simple as all that, needless to say – the Jags go to the first 50 to buy an appartment in a […]

Without air conditioning, you couldn’t survive here – although those Bedu tribes of yore managed reasonably well. When you walk along the street, you see these old oil tins with string leading from them to the AC above. As you pass, you often get a few drips of water splashing you. The tins are there […]

They may take away entire streets, but they keep the roadsigns! Outside it’s sunny, warm and inviting. At home, I would not be able to keep myself indoors. I would find something to do – go for a run, work in the garden, even walk to the shops. Here the sun shining usually means you […]

They may take away entire streets, but they keep the roadsigns! Outside it’s sunny, warm and inviting. At home, I would not be able to keep myself indoors. I would find something to do – go for a run, work in the garden, even walk to the shops. Here the sun shining usually means you […]

Max, my nephew, half way up an inflatable climbing wall. Whatever next? His erstwhile mountain running aunt is very proud….

Men sometimes cross roads as well! Two newspaper reports that shed light on how we live here: 11 GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENTEleven people were condemned to death for drug trafficking and intentional murder in the first half of this year, making it a record number of capital punishments announced over a six month period. Eight of […]

Men sometimes cross roads as well! Two newspaper reports that shed light on how we live here: 11 GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENTEleven people were condemned to death for drug trafficking and intentional murder in the first half of this year, making it a record number of capital punishments announced over a six month period. Eight of […]