Argue for your limitations and yep, they’re yours
I sometimes wonder if the hidden purpose of a long journey by plane or by train is not to get you to where you’re going but to give you some solid, unbroken thinking and reading time. Moments before leaving for Mwanza I chose a couple of books at random from the bookshelf and found myself […]
Two days to go..
Two. It’s a funny word. If you say it often enough it’s one of those that loses all meaning. I recently spent some time with my grandson who is learning Welsh. He kept saying ‘Die, Die, Die!’ to me while simultaneously attacking me with a couple of Paw Patrol figures. I thought it a bit […]
Getting tooled up – literally
I took a trip to Tool Aid in Ringwood, just outside of the New Forest, to pick up some refurbished tools for Khalid, a director of Pikilily but also a carpenter by trade. Tools are hard to come by in Africa so any donated tools to organisations such as Tool Aid and Tools for Self Reliance are a real […]
He doesn’t sleep.. he waits.
Home for the month is a wooden bungalow with a wide verandah and two guard dogs, Rafiki and Sasha. Around the house is a big garden with Mango, Lemon, Tangerine, Avocado trees (to name but a few) and pungent and colourful flowers of many varieties, attracting the most colourful birds. Black Kites are abundant and […]
I’m going to Mwanza – really?
It’s now just a few weeks till I leave for Mwanza to join Claire and help out for a while at Pikilily. But let me take you back a while to where the idea to volunteer for a Social Enterprise in Africa first took hold in me. Driving back from a visit to my daughter […]