aka Ishtar News
It’s been a while since Anette and I decided that we would plaster the inside of our walls with red “banco” mud.
The mason started working this week and has done about 1/4 - and it’s already looking so different!
I love the red soil - it merges so well with the sky, the trees and […]
The Top 10 Visiting Countries of this month are:
USA & others
Sweden
Netherlands
United Kingdom
China
France
Germany
Ghana
Norway
Egypt
(I am still wondering: Niger, where are you…?)
The Top 5 posts have been:
1. Baking an omelet in the solar oven
2. When luxury food meets famine food in my solar oven
3. Clouds - out […]
Remember this little guy, whom I posted about on March 19? His owner wanted a Scandinavian name for him and ended up calling him Carl-Picasso, as a merge between the suggested Carl-Philip and my personal choice (it is against the custom to give an animal a human name, so Philip couldn’t be used). I however […]
Before I got my own place in Niger, there was one typical volunteer thing that I hoped I would never have to do: wash my clothes by hand! Now, when Anette and I moved into this house, we inherited a semi-functional washing machine from the family that had lived there before us. The washing machine […]
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I am trying to figure out what is the best: goat milk or sheep milk?
Being Scandinavian, I am used to goat milk in the most delicious of fashions: Norwegian goat cheese! What I am not accustomed to however is sheep milk. Here in Niger however, sheep milk seems to be prefered over […]
Ali called on me this morning, to tell me that a feline had decided to have her litter in our garden. One of the three was already dead and the red one had a wound on his forehead. They were calling for their mother, who was hiding up in a tree, and I asked Ali […]
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Some Eden villages are just so beautiful. I love the peace and serenity that comes with the image above - I could hang it on my living room wall and never tire of it.
A great wrong is being done to an entire food culture when indigenous Nigerien foods are referred to as “famine food”, just because the West does not know them. When Hilary Andersson of the BBC came to Niger in 2004-05, her team filmed people eating leaves, and Ms Anderson concluded in her reports that they […]
To have a cup of coffee and a melon by the pool during siestas
To have a blue sky and daily sunshine
To be able to enjoy a fruit a day or even more
To have running water
To live in a house that is a home
To have a family that cares
To have friends who wait for you, even […]
More market pictures! Couldn’t post them all at the same time as that would spoil the fun…
The local honey vendors…
The horse gear department
Hausa saddles
Carmelle and Jmackie were on a scarfhunt-
…looking just about everywhere for the right fabrics with the right colors, size and motif.
We had a crowd around us who were pretty interested […]
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