Roughly once a month I go to the German shop to get all the all the stuff I didn’t list here. For a discount store that gets bad press betimes, I have always been overwhelmed by the service. Until this week that is. A trolley with 6 trays of cat food for my neighbour, who, [...]
It was cold wet windy night. The forecast was for gales and flooding. The kind of night when sensible people lock their doors, pull the curtains and sit warming themselves in the glow of a flickering TV. Not me. I had to go out. I’d arranged to meet someone at precisely some time between 7:15 [...]
At the bus-stop Can you tell me where the Irish embassy is in Dublin? – Muriel, recently returned to Ireland after 40 years in the UK and now trying desperately to secure a passport for her 24 year old Tunisian boyfriend so he can join her. In the shop Not sure. Must be a sequel [...]
The sun is in Uranus or somewhere like that, the moon is out at night because it can and the first snows of winter have fallen, 1cm deep in places, bringing the country to a standstill. We are fast approaching the feast day of St. Brigid, patron saint of wide open spaces, large garments and [...]
Mzungu is blogging news from the ground in Nairobi as she gets it. It scares me. Yesterday I used Rwanda as an example of tribalism/tribal-politics to try explain the Kenyan political situation to a friend. I used Rwanda merely because of how tribalism in that case divided a country was something she’d understand having seen [...]
I wasn’t much of a wine drinker back then. But that was all they had. They rummaged in the cellar but not a single bottle of beer was to be found. I survived a couple of hours but finally cracked. I persuaded one of the waiters to drive me down to an off-license. We were [...]
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