I lived in Ethiopia for 7 years. When I came back to Kenya, I used to talk about Ethiopia but no one used to believe me. This puzzled me on various levels. How did one have the audacity to disagree with me, and they had never stepped outside Nairobi? Okay, let’s go with the ‘maybe-they-read-a-lot’ […]
Roald Dahl is a literary god. His ability to weave anything from everything and paint it in your head in such a way that you’re right there with the people you’re reading about, leaping everywhere in BFG’s ear, moving chalk dusters with the power of your mind and actually LIKING life-sized bugs shivers gets me […]
I was at Pebbles’ the other day. We’ve just discovered Gavin and Stacey,so she bought all three seasons and we squeeze in an episode at every chance we get. When I got there,she gave me a glass of juice and went into the kitchen to get tortilla chips. I got up to put disc 2 […]
Death is such an inconvenient and inconsiderate truth. I get the evolution/the Good Lord is in the business of clearing and forwarding to the afterlife,out with the old et al,but death just seems a bit unnecessary. Ok,let me rephrase that. I don’t have anything against death. I doubt I’d want to live forever. I think. […]
