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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Part of our daily lives in Ghana – the toll
On the road between Konongo and Kumasi is a toll. It has become one of the daily fixtures of our lives. Not the impersonal “beep” as the toll reader in […]
Konongo kitchen – or 101 ways with tomatoes
As I said in my last post, we are adapting not only to a whole new way of shopping, but also a much changed shopping list. There are no longer […]
We’re back.
And what better way to settle into our Ghanaian home than to watch a few games of football between the mine teams in celebration of Ghana’s Republic day holiday. You […]
Kicking back in Kythera
After our trip about the Peleponnese, we headed to Kythera island. Kythera is the island which hangs off the bottom (that sounds gross!) of the Peleponnese, and while officially an […]
Paris!
Ok, it’s impossible to write about the cultured beauty of Paris without resorting to cliches. I loved it. A city populated with stunning architecture, red geraniums, boulangeries, book shops (yes, […]
six degrees north 