How many of us could truly see the potential for beauty in all the trash we find around us? One of the things I loved about places such as N...

I had a memory - prompted by seeing a kaftan on a singer in a sound clip a couple of weeks back. My kaftans are long ago worn out. The...

Over at Murphy and Stanley's place it is last Friday of the month story day...  click to read more!! ! Normally I use a photo t...

Having made yesterday a wordy post, today I am sharing the piccies of Kenya and SA that are worth the looking... Talking to the father rece...

You'll recall I mentioned some matters of health , prior to the Nigerian sojourn. Within a few months of settling into Edinburgh, kne...

Time to round off the Nigerian chapter and this is best done by now looking at the family situation...hence it fits into menosukh. As men...

Click the Nigeria label to read the entire collection... As hinted in yesterday's post, running anything other than a household in th...

What's this about?   Look here! Keeping busy was important to psychological and emotional health whilst living in Nigeria. That is pa...

Picking up the potted history...this chapter began here . Living in a country such as this brings experiences that would otherwise have p...

Continuing the tale of African adventure; you will note this is not so much a chronological memoir as a collection of related experiences, ...

Just as one can never really know another person, no matter how close one thinks one is, equally it is so with countries and cultures.  (Ev...