Leaving Kumasi: reflections, obervations and a list
A lifetime ago I worked on a northern Australian cattle station. One of those places so huge they dwarf small European countries and their annual cattle muster is done by […]
Category Archives: leaving
Endings, Beginnings and Hope for the future
Had we not chosen to leave Australia and embark on this African experience our eldest daughter would have just finished primary school. She would have joined her oldest and […]
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So we’re back in Ghana. Six weeks of chatting and eating and drinking, socialising and walking, and chatting and eating some more. The trips to the dentist and the […]
The (not-) final countdown
It’s a feast or a famine isn’t it? We lead a pretty quiet life most of the time, hell some weeks could be described as crushingly dull. But the last […]
What do you miss?
Well we are coming up to 9 months away from home now. The acutely painfull homesickness has passed, as has the thrill of the new. Both replaced by a sense […]
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 […]
On the road…
After an extraordinarily full few months, we are on our way to Ghana. While I’ve never lost sight of what wonderful friends we have been blessed with, the irony is […]
