Caboose

I’m taking advantage of a brief period of NEPA to boil water, listen to music and write this.

As usual for the weekend I got up fairly late this morning, I was out last night with Monique and my friend (and tailor) Otinu.

After breakfast I went kite flying again, Suleiman is getting quite good and the others are improving. The wind was pretty strong today so I had to keep reminding them of safety precautions like not launching the kite when people are in the way! Some of the smaller boys were getting dragged around a bit by the wind. I was watching carefully and made sure they used the safety straps (“kite killers”), that way they can just let go of the handles and the kite will drop out of the sky.

I just had some soup for lunch, I made it on Thursday to use up all the vegetables in the fridge. I think it was carrot, tomato, green pepper, garlic and “american cucumber” (a roundish yellow thing that I think is some kind of squash). As usual, after a few days and a spin in the liquidiser it was even better than when I made it. I enjoy my small culinary successes.

In a little while I’ll have to head off to the market to stock up again, the fridge is looking pretty bare.