what makes you happy?
So what does make you happy? And why do I have an apparently random picture of a pretty average road? There are the universal precepts of happiness: friends, family, meaningful […]
Category Archives: expat
photo of the week – a community service announcement
Can you imagine this sign on the streets of Sydney? New York? London? Overwhelmingly Ghana is a very polite society. Sure you hear raised voices and of course violence does […]
getting my (crafty) mojo back
I’ve been a sewer, a knitter, a cutter, a gluer, a printer and any manner of crafty business for a long time. Although, I do suck at colouring in, much […]
a chair fit for a Queen
Hi there, Do you like my new chair? Beautiful huh? I bought it yesterday in Konongo from a store which sells all manner of ‘chiefly’ items. How cool is that? […]
The biggest market in West Africa!
Everyday is market day in Kumasi, courtesy of the sprawling, self contained metropolis that is Kejetia Market. Reputedly the biggest market in West Africa, it boasts a staggering 10,000 stallholders […]
School report
A sure sign that we are back into the swing of things, is that school is back. There are some very siginificant differences between schooling in Ghana and in Australia. […]
Photo of the week
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done a photo of the week but couldn’t resist this cute little 3 wheeled van. Most advertising signs in Ghana are beautifully handpainted […]
You know you’re back in West Africa when…
You are wished ‘God Bless You’ more times in a week than in your first 39 years You put on bug repellant to go out and night to feed the […]
Galamsay Miners
Galamsay mining is informal or artisanal mining, and is also called small scale mining. The word galamsay is a variant of ‘gather and sell’. Over 1,000,000 Ghanains gather, and a […]
All by myself…
Well, Chrissie and the kids are off again – this time making tracks to a cooler climate, Australia. Actually, the heat here has backed right off and it is contstantly […]
six degrees north 