Food, Glorious food

My sister has (uncharitably I think) suggested that I may be showing signs of being food obsessed on this blog. While this clearly isn’t true, and I would point out that I’m not the only one – my friend Richard in Kofridura has at least two excellent posts on food, this one on home cooking [...]

Happy Birthday Mum

Today is my Mum’s birthday and I’d like to send her my very best wishes.
This time last year I was sitting in a farm house in cold and rainy Sussex with my mum, all my siblings, their spouses and children to celebrate her 70th birthday. A year later and I’m here in Ghana, a lot [...]

Distributing, partying and reading

The other Friday I ended up looking after one of my colleague’s children for an hour or so, while we were distributing scholarship items to the school kids we (ISODEC via AGSP) support. The child must be less than two and I was carrying him around on my shoulders through the crowds, to much amusement, [...]

Book list – international development

Here is a list of the books I’ve read to help me understand international development:
“Poor Story” by Giles Bolton
A readable and reasonable introduction with lots of his experiences in Africa
“The Scramble for Africa” by Thomas Pakenham
How Europe got into this mess
“The State of Africa” by Martin Meridith
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Searching for Tim

The ten most common search terms people use to find my blog are:
1) tim in tamale (and variations on my name)
         which is gratifying.
2) openoffice base vs access
    I must disappoint the nerds
3) china vs India
Some people seem touchy on this subject, I wrote a post last summer comparing the countries
4) office work
hmm.
5) chihuly glass
   Finds [...]

Should I stay or should I go?

I found myself wandering through the streets of Tamale at 2am last Sunday morning accompanied by the contingent from Salaga, who were intent on bothering the local sheep and goats. The more I see of the Welsh the more they seem intent on enforcing their stereotype. The Salagans had arrived that morning and announced that [...]