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running on empty
I am sure you all thought that Monkeys have been sleeping On the Roof all this time? Well let me assure you it has been a busy few weeks. What with summer arriving with all its promised abundance,...
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Mozambicans on the Move : Christmas 2011
We are back from the sparkling seas of Mozambique. Border hassles and potholes notwithstanding, the magic of coastal mozambique soon soothed the senses. The vibrancy of sunlight and colour bounced...
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telling tails
There is a new monkey on the roof. He came in through the front door. He picked up the last remaining apple on the sideboard and moved into the lounge. I heard a noise. I was home alone. It was a...
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Roof chat
Having just re read my last post I found a glaring typo. How come this was not visible before? ...all taught muscle... should read 'all taut muscles' hehe sorry! i am the queen of typos. once upon a...
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Rhinos - in praise of
I can't tell you where or when these pictures were taken because rhinos as a species have never been more at risk of extinction. We have lost two subspecies already in the past year. For these gentle...
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flood water fun
A tropical storm blew in two days ago from mozambique. It rained so much that our world became a moat around the house. The rain guage overflowed so we don't have accurate figures, but we have had more...
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Rain Check
adventure map full of potentialA week later and our world is drying up fast. The waterfalls around the house finally ceased to flow yesterday. The mud is still saturated and slippery, but the plant...
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the moon in leo
There was a full moon a couple of nights ago. A big amber cheddar coloured beaming thing that climbed steadily up the trees and high into the dark sky. I learnt recently that each full moon, in the...
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storm breaking
The air is like an oven door open - a steam oven. Normal activities like walking from A to B are like swimming in invisible water. The white heat from the sun chases us into the shadows. Everything...
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Last night I couldn't sleep. Insomnia ruled the moonlit hours. The candles were not enough to read by, nor was the moonlight. I lay and listened to the soft night noises. There it was - a gentle...
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Sunday
python vine and termite moundSunday afternoon. The heavy heat is broken at last by the pounding strength of an electrical storm. The air is cool and fresh and water lies in pools on the ground...
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the cobra and the red toad
We have been travelling and static, busy and idle, social and solitary, content, conflicted and then contemplative, and lo the time passes. There is a whisper of winter in the air although we have had...
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Seeing Red
carmine bee eater I saw red yesterday. The colour red. A deep luscious red with a hint of blue to give it depth. Not as dark as blood, nor as orange as a postbox, it was the kind of red you want to...
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out of the blue
After my brief preoccupation with the colour red, and all things bright and beautiful, I became immersed in the colour blue. A deep dark blue. I also hurt my back on a stubborn horse. This morning I...
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the good that elephants do
Given that we have reduced elephant habitat to tracts of land that cannot be used for agriculture - either arable or livestock; generally speaking of course. Most of the game reserves where elephants...
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rhino wars
Winter has arrived today with a cheeky wind that makes the tin sheets on the roof grate together in a fingernails on blackboards kind of way. The monkeys were here early testing the metal - they love...
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July chat
There has been blogger interuptus for far too long, and its high time for a chat. Its not that the monkeys have been silent around here - or even absent. Quite the opposite in fact. Yesterday the big...
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recent monkey scenarios
now just follow me - I will show youAs mentioned before, the monkeys from the roof are fast becoming kitchen monkeys. Our recent show of force has apparently had no effect at all. Yesterday, I was...
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