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The uncooperative spider
Nope, just not a good photo The spiders are back in the nursery after a 2 year break. I’d noticed the decline for a few years prior to this and I’d put it down to erratic and decreasing rainfall over...
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Penhalonga revisited
I used to live in Penhalonga, a small gold mining village in eastern Zimbabwe, named apparently from the Portuguese for long rocky mountain. I grew up on Sheba Estate, a forestry plantation some 15km...
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Those were the days
Those were the days of lots of zeros – my claim to multimillionaire status! There is not much to do at work at the moment – business is very quiet – so I got down to bit of clearing out old accounts...
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Following in the footsteps
There I times when I admit that I’m a bit shaken just how like my parents I’ve become. I mean all those years of finding my own way, my own identity, what’s become of them? I catch myself dawdling...
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The river of my youth
That’s my brother Duncan over from the UK having recently taken voluntary retrenchment. He is 4 years older than me but still has not grown up. He is trying to entice Zak, my Rhodesian Ridgeback, into...
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The little escape
It’s been a while since I’ve visited the Matopos hills south east of Bulawayo. 10 years to be precise. In 2007 the Zimbabwe dollar was in free fall but not yet terminally ill and my brother and his...
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Health and safety Zimbabwe style (tree felling)
We had some big trees cut down over the past 2 days – it was entertaining though Marianne decided she couldn’t watch. The climber in the photos was around 30m up and he survived just fine.
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A good season (for rain)
It’s been a good rainy season and nowhere more so than Nyanga in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. Pretty view but no flying Home to Mt Nyangani, Zimbabwe’s highest mountain, it is a magnet for rain....
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Urban wildlife
While out running the dogs this morning we spotted these two reed buck (a type of antelope). While there are only two in this picture another three were lying nearby, apparently unconcerned about our...
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Ballet
There are consequences of an economy in a tailspin. One of the first sectors to feel the pinch is the arts and dance is no exception. Symmetry As a trustee of the Dance Trust of Zimbabwe I am all too...
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VAWZ scruffs show 2016
It’s that time of year when for just a morning we can forget all the nonsense of living in Zimbabwe, the impending disaster of the bond notes, the pantomime that is politics and just be normal. It’s...
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A tree of many uses
Natal Mahogany – Trichilia emetica Pleased to see you Mr Roberts he said. Of course he was pleased to see me; the car park only had one car in it and it was theirs. Yes, I was making an order for more...
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After the fire
Agriculture is not an exact science and sometimes things go wrong. The tobacco seedlings we’d sent to a customer near Headlands, an hour and a half to the east of Harare, had been well received until...
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Smoke and fire
Smoke and sun Sometimes, at this time of year, the sun sets before it gets close to the horizon. This photo was taken up at Nyanga in the eastern highlands two weekends ago. I was up there again this...
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Scruffs dog show (by VAWZ)
Amidst all the chaos that is the Zimbabwean economy we have normal dog shows. Or in this case a dog show for non-show dogs. Scruffs. Well, that requirement was not enforced so everyone had a great time...
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Their heroes and mine
It’s Heroes Day today, a public holiday when we are supposed to remember those who died in the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe. This is nothing unusual; the war dead are remembered in various ways all...
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Just the normal
Once in a while it’s nice to report on the normal and eschew the title of this blog; Zimbabwe Absurdity. This Scruffs dog show was organised as a fund raiser by VAWZ – a local animal welfare...
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HIFA 2014 – Day 6
HIFA is now over of course. My internet did not work for a full 3 days which is why these posts are late. It took an hour on the phone to a support centre and the good fortune to be chatting to a...
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HIFA 2014 – Day 5
Day 5, the penultimate day of HIFA 2014 was sponsored by Coca-cola. I started off slow with the Spoken Word programme because it was next to the next venue I wanted to go to. It’s been going quite a...
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HIFA 2014 – Day 2
A busy day. Traditionally sponsored by CABS, a local banking group, and with it the traditional opera night. Best described as opera light for novices, a lot of small but well known pieces are sung. I...
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