I’ve just been on the church youth retreat at Naivasha. This time the youth came, so we didn’t have to turn it into a leaders’ retreat again. It was a lot more tiring than last time, as I had anticipated. During the morning we had been to the Naivasha Country Club to go swimming. We ...

Buy a matatu (a small minibus – usually a Toyota Hiace). Preferably an old one which produces copious amounts of black exhaust. Don’t bother with insurance. Paint it garish colours and stick a random phrase in the back window (try one of these: ‘No Fear’, ‘God is Invincible’, ‘Arsenal’, ‘Fast as fire’, ‘Waiting for the ...

This morning I finally got the plumber to come and fix my drains. Now the water disappears instead of coming up in my bath with a load of dirt. Hooray! This afternoon I got my hair cut at the Yaya Centre. I hate having my hair cut, but they managed to do a really good ...

I got back from Naivasha yesterday, where I’ve been on Youth Leaders’ Retreat. It was going to be a Youth Retreat, but the Youth couldn’t make it, so we decided to go anyway and plan for a camp later this year instead. Naivasha is north-west of Nairobi and is next to quite a large lake ...