Look – it rains in Africa! It’s been raining for about an hour now. Although the Kenyans will be pleased it’s raining, I still can’t quite shake off my English predisposition to disliking rain.

It’s been quite noisy here recently, as they’ve been putting a new roof on the office. It used to be a flat roof, but the rain keeps coming through (not that we’ve had much recently, even though we’re supposed to be having the long rains now). Now we’re getting a sloping roof. It’s a good ...

I went to lunch at the Yaya Centre today. Paul drove, so I stuck my camera out the window and took photos all the way. Out of the 106 pictures I took, here are three of the most interesting ones. Some of the others were interesting too, but you can look at those when I ...

Yesterday evening I walked to Andrew and David’s house for a party, and took a load of photos on the way. These pictures were taken at the market on the corner of Mbagathi Way and Ngong Road, which is where a lot of matatus stop to pick up and set down passengers. It’s usually complete ...

I said the other day that I’d heard the film Catch Me If You Can isn’t bad. I’ve now seen it myself and I can definitely say it isn’t bad. In fact, it’s a really good film and I enjoyed it immensely. Oh, and that picture has nothing to do with the film. It’s a ...

Yesterday evening some friends and I went into town to watch the film Gangs of New York. I didn’t have much of an idea what it was about beforehand, but being a Martin Scorsese film I assumed it would be good, and I was right. Although it was perhaps a bit too violent for my ...

Hooray! I now have my digital camera. And in celebration, here are two random photos I took with it. One is the road round the corner from my house, and the other is a matatu in the rain this morning. Really interesting, I think you’ll agree. Now I won’t have to wait for ages to ...