Week of 5 Sept

Farmers Own Weblog - week of 5 Sept

I arrived in Nairobi on 3 Sept and spent some time with a Kenyan family in Langata, part of the kenyanisation process which included getting used to the food such as ugali, very good but struggled with the sheeps guts. Started to re-aquint myself with the geography of Nairobi. I bought myself a local phone as my UK phone cost a pound a minute when here.

I met Mildred on Monday for a very useful handover meeting, she left for UK on Monday evening and I have just had an e-mail from her that she is settling into a sunny Hull.

I came to Runda on Tuesday morning and was received by Charles, Julius and Stephen who were pleased to see me. I brought some clothes for them so they were happy.
Well I quickly found the usual african problems, the pickup still had no working indicators and no fuel, the landrover would not start and the electrical power went off for several hours.

I have now got the landrover working (it needed a new battery), I have got Jacky's computer working (it had a corrupted registry - Sam came over and we downloaded a massive Norton file which took all night - this seems to have fixed it). I have set up an account for my own computer with wirless connection at the Village Market nearby as a fall back.

I have read all Mildreds files concerning contacts with the donor agencies and now starting to follow up contacts for presentations. Jacky is not back yet, I have called her mobile several times but no connection, she must be still in Uganda. I have got the DVD working which we will use for presentations.

I have been speaking to Laban in Western Province regularly and he is very cheerful.

Will keep you informed via this blog. I feel quite encouraged so far.