Matatu Driving in Ten Easy Steps

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 ...

New Photos 1

There are a few photos on the Kenya Photos page at last.

Someone Likes Me 1

I received an email from someonelikesyou.com the other day, which claims someone likes me. I just have to enter a list of email addresses to see if they match up. So far I haven’t found anyone that likes me. I’ve tried postmaster@microsoft.com, webmaster@yahoo.com, someone@hotmail.com, but to no avail.

Good Hair Day 4

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 ...

Naivasha 1

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 ...

New Website

After a few years of having a very boring website, I’ve finally got round to giving it a complete overhaul. And I’m quite pleased with the result. The blog code is nearly all mine, although I did borrow some useful code from Peter Hall which converts URLs into links in comments. I haven’t really written ...