Zimbabwe Wild Dogs

Category: Uncategorized | Date: May 09 2008 | By: admin

Hoe gaan dit, mense,

Hmmm. In spite of my not being in Zimbabwe and not having much previous experience with wild dogs to draw on, it appears I am still the person to write the blogs.
So, if you want to read anything about wild dogs I suggest you look at another blog now.

If you’re interested in long and tedious stories about shopping for tyres, inverters, kitchenware and vehicle accessories, then this is the page for you! Any personal details concerning me and my current situation are classified.

After two weeks in South Africa I have managed to buy or order almost everything that was on our project list, with varying degrees of accuracy. The most important thing is that we’ve now got new, bigger and stronger tyres. As much as I liked starting the day changing a flat tyre, I’m hoping it won’t happen again for a long time.
I was going to use the webcam on my laptop (my camera is in Zim) to take a picture of the new tyres on the vehicle and then I realised they look exactly the same as the old ones, which made the whole exercise a bit pointless.

I’m staying in Pretoria and so enjoying the availability and choice of items, currency that doesn’t devalue in your pocket, constant electricity and water supply and a fairly up-to-date cinema. Even the inevitable human contact is bearable, although thankfully limited by my being an Engelsman in a mainly Afrikaner city. I don’t know, you kill 20,000 of their women and children in concentration camps and they still bear a grudge. Come on guys, if you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t be in Africa.

Well, that’s the blue touchpaper lit, so I’ll retire now. More exciting adventures soon.

Bly lekker,

Mike

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