We still don’t have water, although officials are promising it will be back today. Actually, here at the office we still have water, but there’s no water back home, except in the rapidly emptying tank. Stewart is saying that if we don’t get water in today he’ll get a tanker to come and bring a ...

I took this picture while driving home from work on Friday. There’s actually a large drainage ditch on the left of the road, but there’s so much water it’s not possible to see where it is – I just had to make sure I drove far enough to the right to avoid falling into it. ...

I wasn’t really looking forward to this coming weekend in Mombasa. After all, work conferences aren’t always the most interesting things in the world, even if they are held at a nice hotel at the coast. But after the weather this afternoon I’m actually quite looking forward to it. The pictures show a storm arriving ...

…but not a drop to drink. On Saturday flooding caused a dam to burst which supplies the water treatment plant for Nairobi. They were estimating that it would take about a fortnight to repair, leaving most of Nairobi without water for that time. Fortunately I have two large water tanks at my flat and I ...

I was just driving past the end of my road when I saw this camel, so I stopped to take a photo. Unfortunately I chopped off the top of the guy sitting on the camel, but he wasn’t the main subject of the picture anyway. I’ve only ever seen camels out on Langata Road before, ...

Today it snowed. Okay, so it didn’t snow in Nairobi, but it might have snowed in Kenya somewhere. I did see snow today. I had to look through binoculars to see it. It was on top of Mount Kenya.

Yesterday, after a long weekend of sitting behind my computer, I got bored and decided to go for a drive with my cameras. I started randonly driving along the main road out of town, and then kept going. Since my digital camera is so small I could just hold it on top of the steering ...