Which, after all, was what we were there for … The Big Top Those of you who know my La Finca persona may remember that I am a troglodyte soapmaker who normally works in my nice cool underground workshop known as the Soap Mines … in PH (which we quickly learnt to pronounce /put’acourt/) I [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Making soap.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Daily Routine
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Strange how novelties develop into the everyday routine … we soon began to feel we’d always worked in Port Harcourt: we got to know our colleagues, our workplace, and began to work out the geography of the city. I’ll give you an idea of what we did each day. We didn’t need alarm clocks as [...]
The State Banquet
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
How on earth to describe this incredible evening? We arrived in what we thought was our finery to find 500 or so people amazingly dressed in a mix of European dress (DJs, sharp lounge suits, heavenly evening frocks like the red satin strapless number at the next table), ladies in bright prints and traditional headties, [...]
Looking back …
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you see, I had no luck with Internet access … Nigeria mostly relies on Satellite internet for which people buy a card for their computer. And although we were able to borrow one of these for a few days I could NOT work out how to use this on my netbook. So, a word [...]
Internet …?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So frustrating … I have so much to talk about and it’s almost impossible to get online. We are being feted and looked after but also worked very hard. So far we’ve taught about 100 participants each and work a 10 hour day. Everyone’s waiting to check their e-mails so I have to go – [...]
