Daily Archives: October 29, 2006

some things still only cost 10 bob…

…like these mikebe I came across while shopping for my furnitures:

The beauty of living upcountry is that you see things which have almost vanished from Nairobi. And everyone here keeps on telling me how much they prefer Embu (read: …

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We lead while others follow..

…well, do we?
What’s the sense in writing papers on water conservation if I just can’t convince those Mamas doing the laundry (at the place I am currently staying at) in preserving the resource “water” by closing the tap after …

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Cooking with Juergen Kamau

Saturday afternoon after some work on an urgent paper (which hindered me from going to Nyeri) I organized some cheap furnitures (cheap as in cheap quality and low – local – prices) for the kitchen + my room and …

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