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I never showed you the second dress that Ringo made just before I left for Sweden, so here it is! The first one (which is finished now) is for a friend’s wedding, and this second one is for my sister’s phd ceremony. Lol, I know few girls who can resist a good reason for having […]
Remember Maya, Sahara’s younger sister?
Today, our horses got a visitor, a two year old filly from the bush who happened to be none other than Sahara’s younger sister.
January 4th 2008
She was a bit underdeveloped when she came in from the bush (looking more like a foal than a two-year-old filly!), but has been doing a […]
No one is a good tourist in their own home country, so for those who want to know all the odd things there are to know about Sweden, should check out Joy’s blog Home and away, which even for a Swede is very, very cool! Joy takes as much an interest in Swedish life as […]
Life on Eden street is never without colour…
As I was walking down the road less then a week ago, I met my young friends, who were thrilled to have their pictures taken!
Warm greetings from Zinder!
I was just informed that the day before yesterday, an ASAPI project car was stolen in the Zinder area, and its driver killed. His body was found yesterday in the outskirts of town, lacking an eye, the nose and a part of the vein on his lower leg. The car itself was eventually found (todayn) […]
Being a person who always want to have things in hand, I love the idea of stepping outside the house in order to harvest ‘food for the day’. With little else going on at this time a year, green leaves are without a doubt the vegetables of the season. The culinary world as an expat […]
I woke up today after a seventeen (!) hour long sleep and was reminded of the existence of “perfect things”. Tiles in the bathroom floor that are not cracked, walls that are straight and meet other walls at a perfect angle, taps that hold together and do not leak, fruit that are big and colourful, […]
Famine food or luxury food?
Hanza beans & wild Swedish mushrooms, both straight from Nature’s Pantry!
On July 16th, Sean Callahan, a top Catholic Relief Services (CRS) official, appeared before US congress to recommend “urgent response” to the people affected by the global food crisis:
In some regions of Niger, families have started eating only one meal a […]
Having sent off my personal newsletter and arranged with all the formalities that are needed for traveling south to our neighbouring country, I am finally ready to go home and pack! In eight hours, I am leaving for Kano, in order to catch the evening flight to Sweden - the same plane that my good […]
Two Sundays ago, we drove 20 km east to a little town called Mirriah.
It is one of those amazing places with an impressive Baobab forest that is several centuries old.
As we were getting out of the car, heavy clouds were approaching, letting us know that rain was on its way!
My sister: “Look at that! It […]
An expat friend wanted to see the Zinder race track, and so I offered to bring him there on horse. As Arwen is heavily pregnant and Sahara was still limping slightly, Ali brought over Maya and Freya from Gill’s concession and the four of us headed out on a very pleasant excursion.
The track was vast […]
During the siesta today, I was watching the opening ceremonies of the Bejing Olympic Games 2008 on Tele Sahel, when all of sudden Niger walked by! I’m not exceptionally heavy on patriotism in any particular direction (Sweden, Norway, Niger, Africa, Europe, where would it land?) but the pride I felt seeing them there was poignant. […]
The 8th of August was always Bamse’s birthday. For those of you who do not know, Bamse was my first dog and the mother of Dennis, Aslan, Baghera and Baloo.
Although she was of a stubborn kind, she had a great personality! The kids on Eden Street were amazed by her because in their eyes, she […]
It’s been many days now that we haven’t had any rain, and the green on the ground is starting to dry up. We see the clouds come and go but for the past week, the rain has fallen elsewhere.
The air is humid though, asking for a good downpour… Wouldn’t it be great if we finally […]
Winter (also know as the “contre-saison”) is the vegetable & fruit period of the year, when, if lucky, you get just about anything from cauliflower to avocados and imported plantains.
A stark contrast to rainy season, when all the vegetables and fruits above have gone scarce! I’m fortunate these days if the greengrocer brings me more […]
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