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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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Jul 29, 202211 min read

Food For Thought, Blue Base and Njombe

More and more I watch programs or news propaganda about how farmers and their production methods are affecting the climate in a...

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Jul 22, 202211 min read

Clear Air, Diandra Beginnings and Some Iringa Characters

This past weekend my daughter Storm and her fiancé Duncan Bull treated Rozanne and I to a mountain break at a Spa hotel, the Casa das...

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Jul 15, 202210 min read

Practicality, Some Army Reflections and Iringa

Following last week's blog, I caught some telephonic and well-deserved criticism from Scott Von Memerty saying that I had bleated on...

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Jul 8, 202212 min read

Bitterness, No Tuna, Disillusionment and Tanzania

We are all guilty of some bitter thoughts from time to time. In research, it seems that bitterness reconciles with the feeling of being a...

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Jul 1, 202211 min read

Phew! Farming Solo and The Second Tanzania Scoping Mission

Phew! Well while time seemed very short over the past ten days in Scotland my liver and waistline tell me that I had overstayed my...

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Jun 24, 202211 min read

Change of Plans, Go or Stay?

“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns I know, I know it has become a common cliche. Once again in this...

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Jun 18, 202214 min read

Image Over Substance, Bush Life and Pineapples

This week I have to cut my deadline for the blog to Wednesday as I am travelling on Thursday to Scotland and Friday onto Perth. That...

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