Updates

The billy goat saga continues. We have been very concerned up till now that we have been sold a dud and that our billy goat has more in common with pandas than goats in the fatherhood stakes. Duncan, our farm manager has reported a development in the goat rearing stakes. Duncan has been keenly monitoring the behaviour of the goats and seems confident that we can expect the patter of tiny hooves from one of our she goats (called Oink) in about 5 months time assuming all goes well. Hooray!

We have been busy over the last three days enrolling new students into our Technical School. We had a very successful meeting with the students who passed our selection panel and their parents yesterday and have spent today making sure their classroom is ready for occupation on Monday and that we have all the text books that they will need to start with. We have been able to select a very bright bunch of boys and girls from the local community and are looking forward to getting the ball rolling with them. I spent a couple of hours tightening up the nuts and bolts on their desks this afternoon. It was very therapeutic.

I have felt a bit cooped up on our compound since arriving in Kenya this time as all of my work has been focused on our schools and the start of the school year. It was nice to get away for a brief spin early this evening. Our driver, Elkana, lives quite a distance away and didn’t return from driving our manager from a major supplies shop until about 6 pm. It took a little time to unload the Landrover so Elkana was a bit worried about the prospect of getting home. We loaded his bike onto the roof and set off in the trusty Landrover. The road is bumpier than ever. As it hasn’t rained for a while it’s also very dusty so the return trip was very ‘Desert Stormish’ with dust kicking up from passing vehicles and visibility down quite low. It was, none the less, good fun. We stopped on the way back to pick up two neighbours who were laden down with shopping. If all else fails we could always start a taxi service.