Friday 23rd October.

There may be a break in transmission after this. We’re moving everything to Ranandi today, well, 99% is there already, it’s just the office desks and computers left here now, and they’ll be taken out this afternoon. We haven’t got power or telekom connected yet, that may take a few days, I’ll try to get into one of the netcafes in town, but neither of them are open after 12 on Saturday. Steve has found a couple of wireless hotspots in town, outside King Solomon Hotel, and by the British High Commission that are unsecured, so I may park up for a while there to try.

Wednesday was a shambles, Tiffany needed a file urgently for the Auditors, and naturally it was at Ranandi, in a carton, in the container. We found it, but it took a while. Imelda and Jennifer have got everything sorted with the temp set up, plants all sorted into varieties, shade area set up.

Thursday I took a mental health day and stayed home. Mainly because I don’t do walking in the rain to work in the mornings. Tiffany knows to send the truck for me if I’m needed, so there isn’t any problem. Apart from which, it was the first day since Monday I had water in the house, so I made the most of it, and got my washing done, floors mopped, had a 30 minute shower, cleaned all the kitchen up, and spent the afternoon baking and making curry and pita bread. And a double garlic loaf.

It rained all day, which took a lot of the dust and rubbish away, and filled my water tank, although I don’t use it very often, just for when the house water system isn’t working like this week. Steve is talking about getting me a pressure pump system I can couple up to the house to take care of the lack of water. Getting a pot full of water from the rain tank outside is a pita at times. And I’m too cheap to go buying a water container to have inside.

Hopefully Monday will be a better start, we will be all at Ranandi, and things can only get better from here on.

Oh, I found out what system Clement has on his laptop, Vista, and I’m very pleased I never kept it on this one, and reverted back to XP. Going from 98se to XP was easy, after looking at Vista, I’m pleased I didn’t keep it, and Win7 looks good from what I’ve seen and read of it so far.