Our Callum has recently been asking each member of the family what our favourite thing is about living in Tanzania. I told him it’s the fashion – the prints and the designs and getting it made to fit specially for you. Arthur said his is the creatures, not just on […]
In our backyard, the teak and custard apple trees are greening again after losing their leaves in the cooler season. The ground is bone dry as we await the big rains. (Normally we expect them at the end of the year but with climate change the seasons have become more […]
TAFES has been having its annual month-long Staff Orientation and Training camp (SOT) in September and I was asked to conduct morning aerobics on weekdays. I jumped at the chance as it is a not-so-secret ambition of mine to become a fitness instructor one day. It was considered a valuable […]
Our friend Eli the bajaji driver told me about how when he goes into the bank on a Monday to make his repayments, the officials of one of Dar Es Salaam’s most famous churches are there at the same time, depositing the offerings from Sunday. This church is renowned for […]
On Thursday Arthur and I were married for 15 years. One of the TAFES staff told us this milestone makes us senior people, though most uni-educated Tanzanians get married when they are much older than we were so maybe in our case the seniority does not quite align! He also […]
I recently got access to some videos Red Twin made while she was in Central Asia. I’ve been watching them and will watch some more tomorrow on the 3rd anniversary of her death. The first video I watched was her telling about a fabulous night out she’d had, one where […]
Our friend Eli had just invested everything he had in a fruit farm – 3 years to come to maturity. No worries, he thought – he has stable work as a bajaji (like a tuktuk) driver. That will provide for his family and when the farm matures they’ll be on […]
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