Hiya all, I know it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged, I will break my messages home over several blogs so as not to bore you all. I’ll upload relevant pictures tomorrow so Rachel can add them where appropriate. I had a great visit from the Commander and Chief but he drives pretty hard!! Meeting after meeting after meeting!!!…

It is hard to explain how difficult it is to get things done here. Ian and I started out with great hopes for what we might get done today. Here are 2 things that could be simple I wanted to connect to the internet. I went to Africel – provider with lots of advertising all over town. They have run…

Hiya, It’s been a whole month, so I thought I’d better let you know the progress so far…… Or lack thereof!! Vehicles….. Franks dead in the water at the moment! His clutch was getting progressively worse, and then the starter motor gave up too. I managed to get the contacts in the solenoid replaced, but had to strip the inlet…

Hi there folks, I have had an eventful couple of days, some success, some setbacks too. That’s life I guess! Frank……. He’s living up to his name! I had a burst fuel pipe whilst out and about with him……. A lot of walking, buying a length of hose and clips…… a hacksaw blade to cut the factory fitted unions off………

Hi, Things seldom go to plan for me…… and today was no exception! I was intending to get up early, as usual, and go to Church With Abs Dumbuya. However, Abs’s wife Mary Beth was feeling unwell so Abs wasn’t going as he had to attend to her obviously. I was going to go on my own, however I hadn’t…

Hiya, It’s only me again! I thought I’d better keep you all updated. I wish I could report great advances towards starting building…. However, as the title suggests, nothing is ever straightforward! I’ll break my blog up into reports about myself, vehicles, housing and land progress. Hopefully it will be easy to read, and it will be definitely easier for…