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I have seen the future
Entertainment in Harare can be a bit lean – the West End we are not. So people get creative. Drinking is a popular pastime with the sports clubs and various bars, especially on a Friday night. Most...
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Cosmos season
If the cosmos is out summer is coming to and end. It’s been a strange summer; very patchy rainfall though the overall quantity was about normal. The south of the country had significant flooding at the...
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Back to Mana Pools
It’s been quite a few years since I’ve been to Mana Pools Game Reserve on the north-western border of Zimbabwe. It is perhaps one of the better known game parks in the country and is very popular “in...
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Orchids, orchids
The Zimbabwe Orchid Society had their autumn show on the weekend. As usual it was a profusion of colour and fascinating flowers. I was told that a lot of what was on display was not of competition...
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HIFA 2014 –“Switch On!” Day 1
HIFA is up and running again! Day 1 was BancABC day (they sponsored it) and there was plenty to see. I missed one Australian circus show as it was fully booked and as a photographer couldn’t get in...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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