Not now, just now

The  aurora borealis surprisingly left its home in the north to visit us in Portugal this week. Seemingly very unusual. This photo is of the Rabacal  from our home. I slept through, unaware of its appearence until the next day In early 2003, as I have previously said, my focus was on identifying and facilitating the move of farmers to Zambia. I should say our services were not free, as I had already run up huge out-of-pocket expenses, not only for my time but also for travel

A clear sunrise for a change I cannot get away with not writing about our recent weather here, where we live in Portugal. Our rain falls in winter, unlike Zimbabwe in summer despite being in the same calendar months. Normally, it is around 800-1000mm per year, similar to what it was at home on the farm in Darwendale. A perfect season on the farm, depending on distribution. As all farmers know, distribution of rainfall is as important as the amount, especially in subtropical c

Clear skies and even frost for two days this week. A change from all the rain, although at posting this blog it had returned I have a confession to make: the first two hundred words of this week's blog were cut and pasted from last week's blog before posting to try to keep me within my self-imposed weekly word count. So I will return to where I left off on the subject of AI, not so much about its benefits but more about the impact it is having and will have on all our future