(I know, I just didn't see the next page when I wrote the last one!)
"Tea Walk" & "Tea Walk w~ Moon-Flowers"
& "Shopping"....
This, as I can now testify, is the season of the "short rains".
Kenya is now struggling witha fairly lengthy & very destructive drought, but, as the heavens have just opened here at Limuru/Tigoni for the first time proper in ages, I think that they're really trying to catch up a bit.
Boy oh boy, that's rain.
I won't try to explain the cycles of weather that travel up and down Africa over the period of each year, with the tilt of the earth, the proximity of the equator, the clash of the southern hemisphere's weather systems with those of the north, and so on, but think I ought to read up on it a bit more.
Anyway, it's absolutely hammering it down. On the tin roof. Hmmpfh.....
I had a lot more to write, but am so utterly very desperately tired, very hungry (no food today to speak of, Anthea doesn't eat very much at all...) and could be suffering from dehydration, and once again I've been hit by the change of altitude back up to Tigoni, from sea-level....(Oxygen, I so miss you, I bought you flowers and everything....)
Here's another list of stuff that I should write about, but am propping my eye-lids up to get down on paper...be grateful....
Taxi trip into Mombassa.
The 100% commission put on the "bus fare" by the "beach boys" (just don't ask...)
the bus trip (7 hours with no air-con) the near-death experience of ploughing through a set of road-works & demolishing a concrete post or two...Inspecting the damage at the truck-stop. Ouch, just how are we all still alive??
The incredibly poor condition of a once proud city. The filfth & squalor & I do mean that most sincerely,
The hour wait, or more that Anthea had to endure, due to the bus not dropping us off where we were told, and an hour or more later than we'd been told.....
The utterly incredible views over southern Kenya, the mountains, the coconut forests, the bush, and the proximity of the narrow guage railway for the majority of the journey.
Anyway, we have a quiet day planned for tomorrow, slaughtering chickens apparently.
I kid you not.....
