Well, it’s nearly time to go home. For those I haven’t got around to calling or emailing yet, I’m due back in the UK on 1st April with Hannah and Tommy to follow on the 28th of April.
We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone once we get back and will start getting round to visiting by the middle of May. We’ll be based in London for at least a month while I find work, then we will probably move back to Manchester (or, hopefully, somewhere just outside Manchester + garden…)
There is much we have been up to here since the last post all those months ago, including a trip to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. I have uploaded a good few pictures of this trip to Flickr today. Have a look at the images over to the right here on the blog, or click this link. Here’s a quick Tommy pic for starters though.
We’ve really passed on blogging of late firstly due to the insane costs we were shelling out for ADSL (now well and truely ditched) and the due to the difficulty in connecting via GPRS at home. I actually had a post written and ready to go a week or so back, then dropped my pen drive on the way to the Internet cafe to post it…
Suffice it to say, stay tuned. There will be a lot more information here soon about what we’ve been up to. Indeed, Hannah will actually have to start posting after the 31st of March, because I’ll be checking here very day for updates on life in Kisumu.
Tommy is not so happy about returning to the UK. He has made it clear that although it’s fine for us to go to the UK and visit, we must come home afterwards. Home for him means Kisumu, Omundi, Lillian and Kisumu International School.
It’s going to be quite a change for him - and for all of us.
Tommy turned three on Sunday and it has taken a while for us to get around to posting about it - Sorry! We had a little party for his friends, but seeing as it came the day after a grown up’s Halloween Party, the mood among the adult attendants was, erm, ’subdued’. The kids had a great time though, playing games, drowning in cake and dipping into the paddling pool.
Continue reading ‘Tommy's Third Birthday!’
And I’ve had enough of it. As previously mentioned on this site, TelkomADSL put their entry level prices up by 67%. Despite of my impotent fury over the matter - and perhaps because I must be certifiably insane - we forked out the extra shillings and this month paid KSh9188 for same service we used to have.
The service has been shockingly bad. Despite the fact that a large number of users in Kisumu, including probably the most popular internet café in town, stopped using the service due to instability and the price hike, the service has actually managed to get worse.
Continue reading ‘TelkomADSL is a Joke’
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.
On Saturday evening, we went to our friend Tedman’s house for a party. Tedman works for the British Council and we have been friends since I waltzed into his offices in Kisumu and asked why the British Council were moving out. Our first meeting somehow ended up with him inviting me to a Rotarian meeting and our friendship developed. Suffice it to say, Tedman is a very kind and generous friend and the party we attended was organised by him for two British friends of his who were over on holiday celebrating their 27th wedding anniversary. At this point, I’d usually insert a phot of the evening, however, all the pictures I took were… well crap really. The only passable one is of Tommy standing with Tedman’s sons.
Continue reading ‘A party at Tedman's’
