Homegrown and The Climate Band Wagon. An Uncomfortable Peace and the Birth of My Second Daughter
Homegrown and The Climate Band Wagon Why is it that anything you eat from your own orchard, garden or field always tastes better than...
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Nov 4, 20229 min read
Reflections, Return to Europe.
Reflections It is two years this week since I was diagnosed with my second bout of cancer having suffered multiple heart failure brought...
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Oct 28, 20229 min read
Oh Shit! Not Once, Many Times. Benefitting from Stolen Goods. Rae and Whaley
Oh Shit! Not Once, Many Times I start with the explanation “Oh Shit!” repeated many times. After collecting the Jag last week from the...
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Oct 21, 202210 min read
Leadership and Life-Changing Friendships
Leadership As I get older I feel the world is becoming crazier and crazier by the day. Just look at works of art being sprayed with...
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Oct 14, 20228 min read
Gay Zombies and Disappearing Friends
Gay Zombies You are reading this as Rozanne has obviously driven us across Spain through Portugal and back again safely. The Citroen C5...
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Oct 7, 20228 min read
Too Much Travel and Independence Trepidation
Too Much Travel I have been advocating living one's life to the full but personally have sort of hit a brick wall, physically and...
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Sep 30, 20227 min read
Life in Perspective, Scotch Dynamite and The Lancaster House Agreement
During our trip away from Besterio, our home village, we were informed by telephone there had been a severe storm. Zulmira, the lady who...
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Sep 23, 20229 min read
Woeful and The Retreat
I am changing the name of the Jaguar to Woeful. After seven months of trouble-free motoring with a brand new engine, it decided to break...
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Sep 16, 202210 min read
Farm Expansion and My Final Contact
I am writing this in Xàbia, Spain visiting my friends Han and Yasmin Derksen. Han, you will have seen me mention often in my travels...
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Sep 9, 20229 min read
Punctures and A Spanish Bullfight
This week was marked by the death of an Icon, without doubt the world’s most respected person held in awe by many of us. The passing of a...
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Sep 2, 202212 min read
What Is Stalling Agricultural Development in Africa? Pfumo Re Vanhu Encounters and A Bloody Contact
What Is Stalling Agricultural Development in Africa? Much of what I am writing about this week is not necessarily directly related to...
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Aug 26, 202213 min read
Bullfight, Storm's Arrival and Further Travels with Han Anecdotes
Bullfight I wonder how many of you I will offend? Last week Rozanne and I attended a Portuguese bullfight at the Campo Pequeno Bullring...
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Aug 19, 202211 min read
Farewell Patrick, Friend and Neighbour, John and Clem and Further Tanzanian Exploits
This week we bade a sad farewell to our very good friend and neighbour Patrick Holt. Of our neighbours, Patrick was the first we met,...
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Aug 12, 202212 min read
Impact of Cattle and Agricultural Food Waste on Climate, PATU and Iringa
After viewing the meeting on possible compensation to Zimbabwean farmers for their confiscated land and belongings on the 29th of August...
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Aug 5, 20228 min read
An Imaginary Dialogue on the Zimbabwean Land Issue
Background: In order for the Zimbabwean government to raise new funds, it needs to improve its governance and reschedule much of its...
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