Oh No - it's a Brit whinging about the weather AGAIN!

Big story of the day on Thursday is the weather - it's getting chilly.  The Malawians in the office said that it was cold, but to me it felt just chilly.  I was still in shirt sleeves, whereas they were wearing fleeces and coats. It's also raining on and off - a heavy drizzle, I guess you'd call it.  All in all, a bit miserable.

I had a couple of client meetings, and spent most of the day trying to progress the larger project I'm working on. But the internet was still down, and worse still, the water supply went off, so the loos were out of bounds.  Peter, the Programme Manager, and I wandered down the road for lunch - he gave me a whistle-stop tour of several local eateries, before we settled on the place I'd had some somosas earlier in the week.  I opted for a quite good vegetable curry that came with a huge amount of rice in relation to the quantity of curry.  But when I'd finished the curry, the owner came over and offered to top up my supply, which was nice.

Sharife is going to see his parents and attend a wedding in Australia tomorrow (he hasn't seen them for around 4 years as he's been working in Edinburgh), and went off in the afternoon to buy a few pressies.  He came back with some nice stuff, so I've an idea what I'll be taking home with me for my beloved and my mother-in-law.  I'm not sure the son and heir would appreciate the same things so I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for other things as well.

Evening was more football on the telly, then to bed.  Unfortunately, when climbing into bed through the mosquito net, I managed to kneel on the net rather than the bed, and the net detached itself from the cord holding it up to the ceiling.  I couldn't get my own net onto the ceiling hook, so spent the night cowering under the duvet - thankfully I escaped without being bitten.