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Gay Zombies and Disappearing Friends
Gay Zombies You are reading this as Rozanne has obviously driven us across Spain through Portugal and back again safely. The Citroen C5...
Oct 14, 20228 min read


Too Much Travel and Independence Trepidation
Too Much Travel I have been advocating living one's life to the full but personally have sort of hit a brick wall, physically and...
Oct 7, 20228 min read


Life in Perspective, Scotch Dynamite and The Lancaster House Agreement
During our trip away from Besterio, our home village, we were informed by telephone there had been a severe storm. Zulmira, the lady who...
Sep 30, 20227 min read


Woeful and The Retreat
I am changing the name of the Jaguar to Woeful. After seven months of trouble-free motoring with a brand new engine, it decided to break...
Sep 23, 20229 min read


Farm Expansion and My Final Contact
I am writing this in Xàbia, Spain visiting my friends Han and Yasmin Derksen. Han, you will have seen me mention often in my travels...
Sep 16, 202210 min read


Punctures and A Spanish Bullfight
This week was marked by the death of an Icon, without doubt the world’s most respected person held in awe by many of us. The passing of a...
Sep 9, 20229 min read


What Is Stalling Agricultural Development in Africa? Pfumo Re Vanhu Encounters and A Bloody Contact
What Is Stalling Agricultural Development in Africa? Much of what I am writing about this week is not necessarily directly related to...
Sep 2, 202212 min read


Bullfight, Storm's Arrival and Further Travels with Han Anecdotes
Bullfight I wonder how many of you I will offend? Last week Rozanne and I attended a Portuguese bullfight at the Campo Pequeno Bullring...
Aug 26, 202213 min read


Farewell Patrick, Friend and Neighbour, John and Clem and Further Tanzanian Exploits
This week we bade a sad farewell to our very good friend and neighbour Patrick Holt. Of our neighbours, Patrick was the first we met,...
Aug 19, 202211 min read


Impact of Cattle and Agricultural Food Waste on Climate, PATU and Iringa
After viewing the meeting on possible compensation to Zimbabwean farmers for their confiscated land and belongings on the 29th of August...
Aug 12, 202212 min read


An Imaginary Dialogue on the Zimbabwean Land Issue
Background: In order for the Zimbabwean government to raise new funds, it needs to improve its governance and reschedule much of its...
Aug 5, 20228 min read


Food For Thought, Blue Base and Njombe
More and more I watch programs or news propaganda about how farmers and their production methods are affecting the climate in a...
Jul 29, 202211 min read


Clear Air, Diandra Beginnings and Some Iringa Characters
This past weekend my daughter Storm and her fiancé Duncan Bull treated Rozanne and I to a mountain break at a Spa hotel, the Casa das...
Jul 22, 202211 min read


Practicality, Some Army Reflections and Iringa
Following last week's blog, I caught some telephonic and well-deserved criticism from Scott Von Memerty saying that I had bleated on...
Jul 15, 202210 min read


Bitterness, No Tuna, Disillusionment and Tanzania
We are all guilty of some bitter thoughts from time to time. In research, it seems that bitterness reconciles with the feeling of being a...
Jul 8, 202212 min read
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