One month down!

One month down...one month to go!  My worm is getting shorter!
This time next month we will be home in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Firstly apologies, I haven't been able to connect to the internet since Monday.  I am also battling to get onto my email easily.  Bbm is easy and a wonderful invention!  We had to call in an expert, William, who spent an hour helping me with the connections. I am still learning and no IT geek.





One day a week the larger towns have a market day.  Wednesday is Kwame Danso's and because Porks had to buy some things for work, I went along to buy some onions and tomatoes.  Lorries from all over bring in plastic containers, shoes, underwear, jewellery, soccer attire etc., so we walked around to have a look.  Unless plastic shoes, size DD 46 bras or 20 litre plastic containers, no Christmas presents here.

Two stalls had Ghanaian material for sale. Bright, happy, loud material.  My eccentric late Auntie Doreen would have loved this!








I thought that this would be interesting for some of you.  These chickens were all standing in straight lines eating off the ground.  I was fascinated with their discipline.....until I saw that each one had one of their legs tied to a stick!  On the way back I made Porky take a photo as my hands were covering my eyes and I was peeping through my fingers. At least they were in the shade.

We stopped for petrol for the vehicle and also to fill up some plastic containers. Porks got back into the car quite indignant.  He said that the young lady had said to him, "You old, I'll pour!" and then laughed when he realised that she had actually said "You hold, I'll pour!"
We do have fun here!


We bought some plantain "chips" on the way home. Tasty! A little sweet from the plantain's natural flavour and a little salty from the additives.

Saw this beautifully clean and cool (literally) looking Salon and then saw the name! Not much faith in the beauty therapists! A sight for sore eyes in this dry and hot country; don't you think the decor is refreshing? I feel cooler just looking at the photo.

Porks has a thermometer on his Swiss Army knife I thought I'd show you the temperature recorded at lunch time today.  At 4 pm it was 44 degrees. This was in the sun, in the shade it was 36 degrees. Yesterday it was up to 50 degrees.  My poor man and the workers are out in the sun all day!            
It is accurate as indoors it displays 24 degrees, to which the air-conditioner is set.

I sometimes lie awake at night thinking about the blog and what I have written and realise that some things were not written accurately.  I said that the Ghanaians say cutlass for "sickle" instead of "panga."          (Well,......it's important to ME!)



Porks insisted that I put in a picture of the dressing table that I made.  The connection to the louvre handle was from a tie that was on one of my electrical appliances.  According to the one who knows everything I am quote just like "Godiva."