So Tommy went back in to nursery today and as he walked through the door, teacher Karen asked him, “Do you have any news for us?”. Tommy’s reply?
“I got a new football”
Good to see where the priorities lie with the young ‘un.
Aside
Well, there’s not much to this post - just a quick note to say that Tommy looks like an aspiring rock god in this t-shirt, which he tried on for the first time today. It was made by his auntie Sonia when she was still in single digits (can’t remember how old, but it has to be around 12+ years ago). Clearly she didn’t know her nephew was going to look so punk in it!
I’ll be back in the UK in the next few weeks, but I’ll have a major post about what we’ve all been up to before then, I hope (coz Hannah won’t get round to posting!).
I will be in the UK in December, arriving (early) on the fifth and leaving (late) on the twelfth. That’s just under a week, so I will probably be limited to staying in London and (maybe) going up to Manchester and/or Oxford. I’m travelling on my own - Tommy and Hannah will stay in Kisumu. The reason I’m coming is that I have to leave Kenya due to visa restrictions. Also, its proving rather tricky to sort out some of our finances from here, so this is a chance to get on top of some nagging issues. Post a comment here if you want to see me. I think I’ll be based at Paul’s house in N19 for most of my stay, but I’m flexible. I’d like to catch up with as many people as possible, but it may be be tricky to do so…
You may have noticed that I’m not updating here very often at present. One of the reasons for this is that I’m spending an increasing amount of my time posting on OLPC News.
By complete coincidence, the originator of that site and I have a friend in common - Sabina Behague. Via the wonders of social blogging tools, he found a post of mine about OLPC- Technorati, I think -and we posted on each other’s sites expressing concerns about the One Laptop per Child initiative…
…well, now I’m doing my thing for the OLPC News cause by posting there a few times a week. This will allow me not to clog up this site with stuff the majority of my friends and family are not really bothered about. It also gives me something non-Tommy related to do!
As to why Hannah isn’t posting here much, let me just say she spends four days a week in the field and fills about two exercise books a week with field notes. She then spends two whole days a week typing them up. Hopefully, Hannah will be able to put something up about her work soon, however, doing so has ethical implications that have yet to be resolved (readers are not supposed to know where the work is based or who it’s talking about).
It looks likely anyone interested will have to wait until her thesis is published in 2008/9 (unless I can convince her to set up an anonymous blog on wordpress.com).
So, we have some new arrivals in the household. Last night Naila gave birth to 9 puppies. They are all doing well, despite us having to move them when they were about an hour old.
