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The garden is starting to get green right now; at least the part the part that is protected from the horses!
Every morning when I come out, the girls are waiting for me, eagerly expecting their fair share of green (weeds)!
And who can say no to a sweetheart like Arwen when she’s looking like this?
It takes […]
Gurji is the name of the local Nigerien cucumber, and because it is full of taste and texture, I vastly prefer it to any imported type. It may not grow to become a straight line but varies greatly in shape and size, which I don’t mind a bit. Nigerien gurji reminds me of what cucumbers […]
One might have thought that the rainy season would be more comfortable than warm season, but so far, it has not. When the sun shines, which is does quite a lot of the time, the heat is almost as bad as during the last part of warm season, except it’s a humid warmth.
The heavy clouds […]
A favourite breakfast over at Ishtar’s ark right now is sorghum porridge.
Porridge in itself is a very Swedish thing, but the thing is both my sister and I prefer sorghum porridge to any other porridge we’ve ever had.
That together with a cup of coffee and some vitamin C (whether that be Eden fruits or oranges) […]
Mrs Gambo is one of those impressively graceful people you meet in Niger. She is an Eden seed collector who brings seeds from her village, that are later distributed to the Eden farmers in Tanout. I met her at the office the other day and could not resist to take some pictures of her!
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Abdu my friend, my uncle, my brother - you name it! When you’ve known someone for twenty years, they earn many epithets!
Over at Ishtar’s Ark, it is Anette who is the proud owner of two well-fearing goats, who, unless they for no apparent reason would start to act very crazy have a high chance of living out their days being pampered by their owner any time she is around. When she is not around (which she […]
For all those into the Famine Scam debate, here’s an article by the Guardian, published on July 1st, entitled:
BBC in dispute with Norway’s TV2
The controversy surrounds BBC refusing Swedish TV4 the rights to show their footage earlier this year.
A few reactions to the Guardian article are:
The battle between public broadcasters - BBC vs. Norway’s TV2
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It wasn’t long since I lost my darling Aslan, and today, I lost another pet: Nefertiti, the stray kitten who was abandoned by its mother in the goat pen.
Things were going great between the dog and the cat (the two were actually friends!) - with the dog being at a slight disadvantage, when jealousy got […]
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