Internet/Rain conspiracy

Apologies for the headline blog yesterday. I couldn’t get an Internet signal for long enough to get the blog posted and can only do the title on the phone that I use as my emergency Internet backup. I will obviously have to get a smarter phone. Having got into the habit of blogging every day it is very frustrating when the technology does not cooperate. I guess I should be thankful that it works at all – we mzungus, (white people), take an awful lot for granted.

It’s been a very busy week, as usual. A new Cisco team arrived yesterday. It was almost like a relay changeover as the outgoing team from Cisco met up with the new team at Nairobi airport yesterday morning. The team who were returning home worked like Trojans and the new team have started in exactly the same spirit. All of our visitors from Cisco have been very ‘can do’ people and our work is much richer, (not simply financially), for it. The new team have the challenge of erecting s very large greenhouse in three and a half days. If they carry on at the rate they are going we can look forward to having a greenhouse before they leave.

The weather, (sorry!), has been very frustrating this week. Every indication of rain for about the last four days, (i.e. late afternoon wind/breeze, grey clouds, spits of rain), but, at the last moment no rain. The clouds seem to either evaporate or they turn and head off in the opposite direction to us. This is becoming a bit disconcerting as we are rapidly approaching the planting season. It is really important that we get our seed planted at the optimum time. A false start by the rain does not help us very much.

The Internet seems to be holding up just now so I will post this before it goes again. I wonder if it and the rain have some sort of pact between them to wind me up.