TJ’s blog

But this is the point at which we feel it

It will be two years to come out but a third year for public confidence to rise

Went to Kalimba park the other day and saw a Great Mamba and Puff Adder snakes amongst other more poisonous.  Apparently with more posionous snakes if you get stung you have to write "Mamba" on a piece of paper and hand it in when you get to hospital - the logic being you may not be able to speak by that time.  We went fishing but I didn't want to touch a worm to hook up my rod so I bailed out.  It was way too hot and I was fasting so it was cool anyway.  We drove East out of Lusaka to get there and man the roads were rough - but something to add to my African experience.  The snake dud held a huge snake for us and I did briefly stroke it.

We went to Metros on Saturday night and I almost choked twice on the huge medium rare Rump Steaks I was trying to consume.  The drinks were copious and they had a huge Football pitch so Zaf had a great evening whilst we got totally stuffed on steaks and kebabs - this is real Cow country here.

We went shopping at Manda Hill (a Mall) at a Tesco type place called Shoprite and it was soo bally expensive.  But they are building a third shopping center so hopefully in time it will start to get cheaper out here!!!!!  Driving here is totally comensurate with the UK apart from these huge US stop signs they use - thank God - one time I almost drove straight into the middle of a busy intersection.

Landed Thursday morning and having a whale of a time.  The T Bone is as good as ever and the exchange rate is OK.  Lusaka is pretty busy and these days they even have a bit of a traffic jam in the City - the price of progress :-)

The red earth of Africa is still there and as welcoming as ever and its nice to see a place with so much opportunity.  There are tough spots with teh fight against aids and stuff - more on that later.  But overall its a pretty positive place to be.

More later...

Went for my first flying lesson yesterday it was for just under and hour in the air and it was amazing - I cannot believe how easy it is.  It was in Denham aerodrome a most beautiful green place :-) Pictures to follow.

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0341376/

worth a watch if you like semi dark Aussie comedies. I loved it...

Tonights the night - got me a date with a cute lamp chop!!!!

http://www.zabihah.com/_details_reg.php?rest_id=1164

Well I went and what can i say it was awesome,
http://www.tayyabs.co.uk/

We had lamb chops for starters and chicken.  For main courses with Nan we had Karahi Chicken Lal and Dhal Gohst - the chicken curry and lamb chops were fantastic!!!!

blogs and bloggers - bah what's that all about!!!

but hey life is strange and mixed up - no two peoples experiences are ever the same.  It's like as a kid growing up in Englend there were like three channels on TV, we used to say "did you see <a progamme> on TV last night, well you can't do that anymore.  But here there is a forum to communicate and link in a new and different way - pull out what you are into, I guess it will take time for these technologies to bed down with most folks but I do feel this is all part of the new new thing. Could this be bigger than the Guttenberg presses?

peopel like to communicate and the more that's happening in life the more we have to communicate...

human beings have more of an verbal and physical communication and thats got to become part of new technologies in blogging? Anil?

I remember reading years ago about computers where you just holding up your homework it reads it and tells you the answers - a fifth generation computer or something...i forget ....

We also have a family site for close clan on www.myfamily.com - fourth year and going strong.

read this recently:

You have to learn to see people for who they are, not who you want them to be. And learn to see a relationship for what it is, not what you want it to be.

This is a very difficult skill to learn, but until you learn this, you will probably never find someone who you are able to have a good relationship with.

When you are with someone, you need to make conscious evaluations of who they are, how they act in relation to you, what they are like, how they treat you, what you are looking for, etc. You need to be precise and almost harsh about how you evaluate them, and be honest, at the very least with yourself, and see them exactly as they are. Literally ask yourself: Where is this relationship going, and where do I want it to go? What does this person think of me and how does this compare to what I want from the relationship? Things like that.

http://www.simurgh.co.uk/

Good lemon and lime - after 8:30pm they had a really accomplished belly dancer :-)

The Baklava was a bit heavy but otherwise a thoroughly delicious meal.