Incidentally… Five Years

Incidentally, today is five years since Family Unity Day. This is the day when we celebrate the adoption celebration in court. Ella was already officially David’s daughter by this point in 2014, but this was the day when we had the ceremonial event with the […]

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Today’s Poem 30.10.19

I don’t like cockroaches In the bathroom On the stair …in fact, Just anywhere. I do like the sound Of wind in the banana leaves. I like the feel of rain on my hair And hail On my face Even though it stings a bit […]

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The Skinny Muzungu Project

So I started this project I think back in 2015 or 2016, some time after J was born. I needed to lose weight and wanted to do Slimming World again, but found that my membership had expired… probably something to do with shifting 7,000 miles […]

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Thoughts 11.10.19

Thoughts from the last few days: Thunder crackles over Kampala Ella must have felt so totally alone. She cried for me and I kept not coming. Of course she smiled when I went to see her; I had returned. (And this is the clinical write-up […]

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Thoughts 11.10.19

Thoughts from the last few days: Thunder crackles over Kampala Ella must have felt so totally alone. She cried for me and I kept not coming. Of course she smiled when I went to see her; I had returned. (And this is the clinical write-up […]

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The Neighbours’ Dog 07.10.19

Please be the neighbours’ dog… please be the neighbours’ dog… Crazy the thoughts that go through the exhausted parental mind. This was the thought, prayer, desperate plea that I actually verbalised a few minutes ago, David having just settled Bub. The sound was a weird […]

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The Neighbours’ Dog

Please be the neighbours’ dog… please be the neighbours’ dog… Crazy the thoughts that go through the exhausted parental mind. This was the thought, prayer, desperate plea that I actually verbalised a few minutes ago, David having just settled Bub. The sound was a weird […]

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October 2019 GNP Article

Joseph is dead, his fame and legacy not known by the new Pharaoh. Israel is living within Egypt’s borders and Egypt doesn’t like it. Into this nation in conflict a baby is born: Moses. Moses’ story is as complex as Joseph’s, but for different reasons. […]

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