January 2010
6 posts
I am quite low
I came back from being relatively comfortable, warm and unstiff, with a sense of purpose, to
Being immediately cold, stiff, in a lot of pain and having trouble walking again
Being dumped, with a smile
Both computers dying, including maybe losing all my photos
Billing hours
House hunting
Stressful PhD application
NHS informing me that my counselling needs are too complex for their current...
Misseerus girr
I have arrived in Meru to the strains of the matatu tout singing the above song. I am now north of Mt Kenya and it was a very lovely pretty ride, although the desperately praying lady next to me made it hard to ignore the steep drops by the very bendy road.
Meru is a bit of a hub, not much of an anything, but it is still lovely and exciting and colourful and full of mangoes. Nairobi is still my...
Are you twins
I hear there’s a big freeze on in England. I don’t really understand this concept, as it’s 32 degrees here?
I’m in Watamu, having my last two days of beaching and sunning before heading inland for a little trip around Mt Kenya. It’s lovely here, where we stayed for the election night in 2007. We had dinner in the same restaurant as where we saw the election...
Maridadi
Yolana and I have arrived in Lamu, and are living comfortably in Simba House with Abu and Laura. Already there are plans with Abu’s friends for an evening cruise in one of their dhows tonight; someone’s gone out fishing to get some for a barbeque on Manda island. I am considering playing the Euro Millions online while I’m here, and if I win, I’m not coming back.
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Would you like a little Obama
We’re in Mombasa all safe and sweaty. Yolana thought that the ticket tout was asking her whether, theoretically, she would like a personal Obama, maybe to cook for her. I thought that it was a relatively funny dirty come-on.