Archive for January, 2010
Me and the gorgeous Martha and Seth post ice-cream Vincent, looking decidedly cheeky with a serious thunderstorm coming in over the Lake!! Ummmmmm…….!!!! The daily grind I love the fact that Rose looks absolutely terrified, and we hadn’t even left the jetty at this point!! Martha, Seth and Charlie[ READ MORE ]
Curse of the chicken It’s funny what the heat can do to you. Dreams become more vivid, when they chance to visit….. I had to run from marauding chickens last night! I think the source of that very strange and properly disconcerting dream-sequence was the cluck we bought on the way back from court on [ READ MORE ]
Anne (FIDA lawyer, Mombasa) and I, MSA Fort Jesus cannon accross to the island The old colonial court in Mombasa From left to right: Hamis (elder), Nazir (elder), Fatuma (FIDA) and Hajji (interpreter, thank god for him!!) Out for dinner in Kisumu. I should have known from the state of the blinds that I was [ READ MORE ]
The coast My work split me between Kisumu and Mombasa this week. It was the first time that I had managed to visit the Mombasa FIDA office (the most recent addition to the locations for FIDA) and see my friends from the AGM in December. To be true, they are lucky working there; the office [ READ MORE ]
Local Kisumu police doing their rounds and keeping order… Border towns An actual sun halo!! Not through the camera lens but how it looked in the sky! Anyone for a pint of warm Tusker at the ‘Joyline Saloon’? It’s got SKY TV!![ READ MORE ]
Strategy It’s been FULL-ON at work since returning from the bliss of my Christmas travels. But I’ve never been one to complain about a little pressure, so I’ve really enjoyed getting my teeth into collating my research and preparing the first draft of my access to justice strategy. The bare idea I’m developing is to [ READ MORE ]
Ngorogoro crater from the rim Me and the zebra-fed lion (I am in the truck) Me and the vast serengeti behind (my t-shirt cost me Kshs 150 or £1.10!) Inquisitive boys in Musoma Lions, giraffe kill and marauding hyenas My group! A Massai herd Mara hippos Cheetahs “playing” Cows??? Vulture identity Aspiring massai warrior (yes, [ READ MORE ]
I spent Christmas in Mombassa and the Christmas break travelling through southern Kenya and Tanzania. I had an amazing couple of weeks, mainly due to the excellent group of friends I toured with, and of course, the wild animals that tended to camp with us…. Massai people In Kenya I stayed in a Massai village, [ READ MORE ]
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