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Joe Blogs: February 2010
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Sunday, February 28, 2010. An End to Ethical Living? Anyway, a new boss has meant new impetus and last week, the batteries were replaced. Since then the power hasn’t tripped once, even though it’s been a very rainy week. We’ve got a security light on all night now, which is a relief after we found an intruder last month. Not that I’m complaining. The biggest bonus will be being able to ‘afford’ electricity to keep our laptop charged at all times so we can teach our staff some vital ...Let’s, for no...
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Joe Blogs: March 2010
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Monday, March 22, 2010. Thank you for flying Rwandair! Just back from spending a couple of quiet, relaxing days in Kigali, more of which later. However, I had to quickly mention a couple of details about the journey. Having decided to treat ourselves and avoid the perils of the notorious Kapala-Kigali Road, we turned up for Rwandair flight WB106 to find that in fact we had really only swapped one deadly vehicle for a shipping container with wings. The image was completed when the attendant finished givin...
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Joe Blogs: June 2010
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Saturday, June 19, 2010. Coming ‘Home’. With a month to go til we fly back to the UK after our two years in Uganda I find myself drawing comparisons between the two cultures and, if I’m honest, feeling the brokenness and mess of my homeland, even in with comparison with some of the disfunctionality of the East African World. I know it’s not something new, but the futility and the sense of something so beautiful and nice in life being trampled like this just depresses me so much. This time at least. Thurs...
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Joe Blogs: May 2010
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Monday, May 17, 2010. Meanwhile, down on the farm. Two significant milestones in my farming experience last month. Neither of them of much consequence but both moments that will not be quickly forgotten and definitely left their mark, so to speak. I got a good bruise up the back of my leg but otherwise no lasting damage. However, I’m not sure how swift I will be to perform any more castrations in the near future. Ooo', and if you will, 'arr'. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Joe Blogs: July 2010
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Saturday, July 03, 2010. 10 Things I'll miss. In a sort of 'top ten' format, this is really not an exhaustive list. I've just been looking through a few of my photos and appreciating some features of my life over the last 2 years. In three weeks I'll be back in the UK. 7 Cool front garden. It's pretty neat having a football pitch for a front garden. Keeping the grass short is a bit of a 'bind' though! 6 Goats around the house. I love it when I drive up to our house to find that our garden has been se...
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Joe Blogs: January 2010
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Friday, January 29, 2010. Africa Highs, Africa Lows. I suspect I am not the only foreigner living in here who experiences the conflicting emotions associated with life in Uganda. It truly is a case of fluctuating between the sublime and the ridiculous. Without giving specific examples sometimes the good seems very good and the bad seems terrible and there’s not a lot in between. Sort of the opposite of the kind of banality and normality you sometimes feel living in the UK. Also this week we could have...
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Jeff Pullingers blog: February 2006
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006. This week I'm in Troon, a small seaside town on the southwest coast of Scotland. There is a big team of us and we're having a great time in the local school - Marr College. Every evening we're eating as a group in a different place, and in the church we were at this evening a pastor was hosting us, and he had his two kids with him. Kids So many lessons to learn from there. Dad dad. Daaaaad". So what did the kid do? Daaaaad. Daaaaaaaaaad. Daaaaaaad, come here". Jeff and Alina...
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Joe Blogs: Africa Highs, Africa Lows
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Friday, January 29, 2010. Africa Highs, Africa Lows. I suspect I am not the only foreigner living in here who experiences the conflicting emotions associated with life in Uganda. It truly is a case of fluctuating between the sublime and the ridiculous. Without giving specific examples sometimes the good seems very good and the bad seems terrible and there’s not a lot in between. Sort of the opposite of the kind of banality and normality you sometimes feel living in the UK. Also this week we could have...
