Our Home

Our home is simple but we are busy making it comfortable. It is a semidetached with living room and 2 bedrooms, a walled enclosed courtyard and kitchen , shower and loo. The basin is in the courtyard so we brush our teeth gazing at the stars in the African sky and I shave with the cool light of the African dawn. Having a shower is challenging as it is cold only and the ambient temp is only about 18-20' C. The backyard is clean but the walls need a coat of paint. We have a few pots of fowers/mint/basil mostly provided by Valerie in various old margarine containers.

The countryside stretches behind and there are many birds including glossy starlings, assorted finches, hawks and what is that large grey parrot? Kids pass frequently morning and afternoon walking to and from school and looking/staring/giggling/running and saying "Good morning, Sir/Father/Doctor" whatever the time of day. We walk 5 minutes to the hospital though it can be a very wet 5 minutes.

This is the view from our porch.

We have been busy planting cuttings and plants that Valerie gave us and hope some take. We went out into the countryside to dig up some pretty flowering plants. One passing Tanzanian woman thought it was good that we had some plants for custom medicine for tummy ache and one of the nuns coming back from the garden thought it odd that we had dug up weeds to put in out garden. The teenage girls next door thought it was hilarious. I suppose somewhat similar to digging up some Queen Anne lace or dandelion to put in ones garden !
Sunset over the valley behind our house.