Bitterjug’s blog

As you know (if you’ve read the last couple of entries) the power went off here during most of Easter weekend. That was sort of plesantly peaceful. On Easter sunday I went to mass with the Sisters.

No, not the sort you’re thinking of.

On wednesday, when I returned from my trip to Nairobi and unpacked my rucsack, I placed all the things I had bought on the coffee table. Then I sat down in my armchair and wrote a list of them.
Here is that list…

I have managed to salvage some of the blog entry I was writing on Easter Saturday when the power went out over the Kangundo region due to a transmission pilon falling down (or that’s what they told Sister P when she called to see why it had taken three days for the power to come [...]

An email from Denise says:
I discovered on my recent bill that I pay 43p to receive a text from abroad, then 53p to reply. i.e. nearly ?1 if I receive and reply to a text. It is madness.
I haven’t sent anybody in the UK any text since I received this. Can you check out [...]

Just to let you know I’m still ok.
The powere went off on Easter saturday morning while I was writing saturday’s entry. And did not come back until tea time on Easter Monday! I wiped up the icy meltwater in the pool round my fridge on monday morning and set off on an adventure to Nairobi [...]

A deep rolling rumble sounds accross the college compound like distant thunder.
The thunder storm of last night has left the ground wet and soft and smelling somehow sweet. At 6.30 this morning rain was still pouring down and making that wonderful caravan-holidays-in-the-UK sound on my corrigated tin roof. I cancelled my morning [...]

AAAaaarrrgghh! :O
Stage V just sat their Javascript exam and I invigilated it. Let me tell ya, it was terrible.

I just bought a new kettle.
I have a big red scald mark on my left thumb and a popped lymph blister that is glistening and stinging. I have been boiling water in the pressure cooker, its the largets kitchen implement there is in my kitchen. Its the same one Thaths used to boil water [...]

I let Andy B down by not adding an entry on friday but I was having so much fun replying to replies and nothing else reportworthy seemed to have happened. Meanwhile, it was the weekend…