…….later that afternoon when the sun had slipped lower the Master came out for a stroll in his lush gardens. Being so late in the season the trees were heavy with fruit and the air thick in natural fragrance. A small stream chuckled nearby as it flowed under the bridge. The hum of insects as [...]
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Kicking the Habit (part I)
Back in the 20th century there was this big man called Nyams Kirondo who toured the local schools trying to urge the young kids to avoid taking up the evil habit of smoking. I think he was sponsored by some local NGO. The man was a legend. I remember the day he came to our [...]
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The Meteorological office is warning that heavy snow and freezing temperatures are expected to continue for at least another two weeks. This follows Some of the heaviest snow fall in over 20 years. There has been heavy snow in the north-east of England and the Scottish borders, with reports of up to 30cm (12in) falling [...]
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affiliate program So I’m standing here again watching the world go by and everywhere there are chants of Out with the Old, In with the New! And I find that I am in agreement with all of them. 2009 was a non-year and it gave us nothing new or special. It was the year of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Every Sunday Has a Silver Cloud
Like many other people I felt that so many megabytes and too many inches of newsprint had been dedicated to the story of – and the reactions to – the recent London Wedding that there was nothing more to add. But then I got a letter from my cousin Sui, a church pastor from a [...]
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It has really been one of those summers. Rain, rain, sun, rain, and more rain. I now carry an umbrella as part of my essentials, along with my hay-fever medication, pain-killers, insect- repellant and joint lubricants. Imagine my surprise, basi last Thursday when the sun gave up being shy and came out from behind the [...]
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Like most normal people I have always held the opinion that if the Good Lord had wanted us to fly We’d all be like eagles. Unfortunately as the world “grows smaller” people become more and more restless and they feel the urge to move across the continents and the seas for holidays or to pursue [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Britain Battered By Severe Weather
Britain woke on Monday to find herself battered by the heaviest winter storms in nearly 20 years. The meteorological department had accurately predicted the cold wintry showers arriving from Siberia but the heavy snow falls played havoc on the transport system in may parts of the UK with London and the South East being particularly [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Orange is the colour
I lost my job last week and when Shabina kicked me out I was homeless once again. I am back here now broke and dejected in this hot and dusty village that we call home. This place is just pathetic. The village shops are just a couple of tied-together wood-and-paper affairs where tired and miserable [...]
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