Many of us would like to change the world but often have no idea where to start. My wife and I have just had lunch with a really interesting guy called Frank. He has travelled all over the world doing a variety of odd jobs – nothing of any seeming consequence. But twenty years ago he decided that he would help a poor orphaned girl that he had heard about to get through school and to try and give her a chance in life and this gave us a vision for what changing the world might look like…this is Lillian’s story.
upside down life…
18 FebYou may have noted that I have already commented upon the quite unique sense of driving that seems to pervade most of Kenya, I do, however, feel the subject needs a little more comment. Having been cut up roundly whilst driving through a local town I relished to use the opportunity to engage the car horn to show my mild frustration at the incident. The driver instantly wound his window down and I sat there ready to humbly accept his apology and get on with my day, his hand gesture, certainly not in my culture, represented nothing that could be constituted as an apology indeed it looked more like a wartime celebration sign. It was this sense of ‘so long as I am ok my driving can be however I want it’ that prompted this slight ramble…
Were this picture scene of an horrific accident then all could be forgiven and we could wish the incumbent parties a quick recovery but this is someone’s extreme attempt to avoid waiting in a traffic jam.
computer says no…
4 DecIf, like me, you find yourself to be a new-age technologically challenged being (a computer idiot) then you may well appreciate my frustration…
Why do computers go wrong? Why when you have paid a substantial amount of money for them do they decide to go on some unprompted and some non-requisitioned sabbatical, just at the moment when they very thing you need, normally some large assignment, work presentation or other such feat of literary genius, requires printing?
…whilst this young man clearly has some exciting hair issues going on many of us will relate sympathetically to his situation…
Hidden gems…
25 OctIn Africa, in the middle of the bush, in a place so small that when you type it into google maps the small man inside the computer has the preposterousness to suggest that you may have incorrectly noted the four lettered place that you live in, it is a little bit of a surprise to come across a chip shop…
This is when two worlds collide, in a beautiful, bizarre and scrumptious way.
The village market, which before I go any further I must add are both generous and potentially highly misleading terms. The market consists of a dozen ‘dukas’ (the Swahili word for ‘shop’ or as my Kenyan for Dummies Dictionary, grandly and largely unhelpfully, puts it boutique!)…
When people look at us what do they see…?
18 OctI wonder if people don’t always understand quite what a sign may say about you…








