Thanks for you email Sugarberries! Was great to hear from you, and to hear all your news, hard and good. I'll reply properly during the week- this is just to make sure you are not waiting endlessly (again) and also to exercise the blog a bit!:-) lots of love, x

Sugarberries, thank you for your email. So sorry to take forever to reply; work is manic and weekends fly by with so many various activities...my last post was via a comment on one of the postings (not very clever) so i guess you haven't read that yet. Still haven't gotten a moment to email Lamon and Mukyala Lamon to explain the blogging biz (maybe you should do the honours!) Texts to you still refuse to go through; although i not been clever enough to try your warid no..still have it?
Otherwise i'm ok- been here just over two months already, would you believe-time flies!

Yes i heard of that lad Timothy's death- heard from my aunt who is your mum's friend actually, he was my relative apparently. I didn't know him though- but my aunt says he was so so so nice, like his parents (and his dad died about 5 years ago). First Mugabe, then now this boy; life is fragile.

Almost time for me to go home, feel very tired today, and can't wait to go home and sleep! Spent entire weekend unbraiding,and the hair seems to have trebled in thickness-arms and neck are sore still! But its good to have the braids out- i really want to get dreadlocks, but i'm still skeptical about whether they'll come out the way i want them to look. We'll see; might come home with a maroon-tinted mohawk:-)

Kale, have a good rest of the week, and hopefully a text to Warid comes through to you today.