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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
Phew! Farming Solo and The Second Tanzania Scoping Mission
Phew! Well while time seemed very short over the past ten days in Scotland my liver and waistline tell me that I had overstayed my...
Jul 1, 202211 min read
Change of Plans, Go or Stay?
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns I know, I know it has become a common cliche. Once again in this...
Jun 24, 202211 min read
Image Over Substance, Bush Life and Pineapples
This week I have to cut my deadline for the blog to Wednesday as I am travelling on Thursday to Scotland and Friday onto Perth. That...
Jun 18, 202214 min read
Waiting, Just Married and Ghana
I spend more time worrying about what I will write in my blog for the week at night than my health. Luckily I am able to accept that...
Jun 10, 202211 min read
PET Scan, IT Headaches, Preparation for Marriage and Farewell to Benin
"The greatest wealth is health." – Virgil This week I had my PET scan. Over the course of the past six years, first, with prostate cancer...
Jun 3, 202211 min read
Farm and Business Friends, Numbers Correction and Another Brief Nigeria Visit
Every Monday I start thinking about what I will include in each week’s blog with the strong intention of starting on that day. I rarely...
May 27, 202210 min read
Connections, Thank Goodness It Was Not Me and Benin Continued
Perhaps due to becoming older, it was only after emigrating to Rhodesia that I started meeting the majority of the people who would...
May 20, 20229 min read
Friends, Gonerazou and Benin
Continuing on with friends this week we are happy to say with the semi-demise of Covid-19, we are now again welcoming some international...
May 13, 202213 min read
Friends, I Did Not Volunteer For This and Trip Back From Quelimane
A couple of weeks ago I predicted that the Chechen thugs Putin had sent to Ukraine would probably lead to atrocities. I knew there would...
May 6, 202211 min read
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