Hiya all, I’ve been a tad busy the last few weeks. I’ve really just been trying to get this land secured. However, in among all the stress of life here there are moments of real joy, I have been talking to all the “Pinkin” (children) from my veranda. I gather quite a crowd sometimes! I probably haven’t helped myself with…

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I’m good….. or “fine” as is used here! I haven’t suffered any ill effects at all to be honest. I take my malaria tablets regularly. I eat well……. probably too well in fact! Stress levels vary day to day dependent of what I’m doing! I worry lots about where the next penny is coming from, but I know in my…

Banking in Sierra Leone……. its like nothing else you have experienced! To withdraw money and get it changed into local currency is an all day affair! The actual bank is like a cattle market, and although there are lines to get to a teller, everybody just pushes to the front to get served first! The bank seems to make its…

Hiya Most of you who have followed the blog for a while will know that I’ve had a real challenge getting Frank up to speed. Any speed in fact as he wouldn’t start for ages! Once I got him going it was soon apparent that there were far more issues than we could have ever accounted for. On this journey…