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Feb 25, 20228 min read
New Health Issues, Contact, Bureaucratic and Corporate Corruption
After a cloudy weekend, we have bright sunshine once again and as the newspapers say; May weather in February. 90% of Portugal is amid...
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Feb 18, 20229 min read
That Losing Feeling, First External Operation and Corruption Continues
Last weeks joy over beating England in the rugby was soon destroyed by a poor show at Cardiff. Well done the Welsh, Scotland hang your...
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Feb 11, 202210 min read
The Stonger Team Lost, First Casualties and Corruption
What a weekend of rugby! Ireland absolutely animated a substandard Welsh team with one of my favourite players contributing to their poor...
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Feb 4, 202210 min read
Time, Landmine Lifting Course and Support Required by Investees
Where the hell does the time go? I try and start writing the following weeks blog every Monday which gives me the weekend to think of...
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Jan 28, 202211 min read
Wake Up Call, Rat Packs and Further First Impressions
So there I was after a clean bill of health last week. I then immediately get reminded that a clean bill of health for me is not what it...
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Jan 21, 202211 min read
Good News, Operation Hurricane and First Impressions
When I started to write this blog it was on the back of bad medical events and news. That is, I had just had heart failure with the...
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Jan 14, 20228 min read
Writer's Block, Heading to The Sharp End and Farm Business Models
Some weeks, events happen that make it easy to start writing the blog, while others like this one, it seems extremely difficult. I think...
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Jan 7, 20229 min read
A New Year, Our First Operational Trip, “Know All” Investees
This is the first blog of 2022. Yes, last week I published it on the first day of the year but it was written in the last week of...
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Jan 1, 20227 min read
Reflections, Breakdowns and My First Christmas and New Year in The Bush
I will keep my promise to my daughter, Janine, this week and produce a shorter blog, I am sure to her delight and also the readers. When...
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Dec 25, 20219 min read
Little Makalolo, Trip Reflections and “Low Returns”
As it is Christmas at the end of this week and everyone is involved with family, I agreed with my editing daughter, Janine, to make it...
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Dec 17, 202111 min read
Admiration, Disgust, Deployment to Operation Unit, and The Cost Impact of Governance (CYA ???)
I open this week by recording my admiration for how well my mother-in-law Shirley is doing in her personal battle. She decided she was...
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Dec 10, 20219 min read
It Ain’t What It Was. COIN and The Challenges of Investing in African Agriculture Part II
It is finally drawing to the end of our two months of travel in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Oh, how I still love Africa despite all...
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Dec 3, 202110 min read
Travel Uncertainty, The Need to Know Rule, The Challenges of Investing in African Agriculture Part I
Will we get home on time or not? That is the question. If the world press and the fearful politicians have their way, probably not. If...
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Nov 26, 202111 min read
Kavinga, Self-made Nightmare and Land Title
On the final evening in Zambia, we met up with the Bradshaws, Dave and Ginny. Also present were Jim McSorley and Doreen van Blerk. We met...
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Nov 19, 202111 min read
Kariba, Classical War Training and Land Tenure (Part III)
Once back in Kariba, on the border with Zambia, we were met by a nice medical gentleman only happy to carry out our required PCR in the...
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