Not now, just now

Full moon over Penela Castle, our local town Like many ex-Zimbabwean farmers, I really enjoy Doug McClymount, a renowned agronomist and bullshitter, and his occasional postings relating to his experiences in life while being an advisor to farmers, including his time at the Tobacco Research Board (TRB). Doug is an excellent storyteller, and many of the tales he tells and the people he mentions, friend or foe, I knew well or still do now. Sadly, many have left us. He also did w

Rain returned to Portugal this week, marking the start of Autumn. In fact, 58 mm in total. The rainbow was over the hills behind our house. There it is: the very first rains arriving, marking the end of summer and the beginning of Autumn. As I have said in earlier blogs, our seasons in Portugal are the opposite of what we experienced in our old home country, Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe, the first rains, often in October or November, mark the beginning of summer and hopefully a damp

The tranquil sunsets of Lake Kariba belie the danger of the storms that occur there. - Photo uncredited "The tragedy on Lake Kariba last week, or some similar type of tragedy, was inevitable, but the circumstances causing it were not. The root causes was poor or total lack of governance and corruption."-Peter McSporran The definition of inevitable in the Cambridge Dictionary is "certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented." The following is only my conjecture on w