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There's not really a huge amount happening at the moment- that's the main reason why I haven't posted for sometime- tho' I did send a newsletter so at least there's information flowing somehow. work has been pretty busy- lots of things to be organised and information to be gathered (still working on this one) and then reports written up, so enough to keep me out of trouble.

We (meaning about 5 cars worth of people) went to a private beach last weekend- was great fun- it's in a small bay which means it's much calmer than the other beaches and the waves are a lot gentler, which meant a lot of people spent sometime chilling and chatting in the water and then came out more prune-ish than they meant to. There was also a BBQ there, so we had bacon and egg sarnies for lunch- v nice, plus lots of pringles (yep- they've made it out here tho' they're not cheap and I know they're environmentally pretty atrocious) and wafers/biscuits.

We had a birthday party at Mamba Point (Guest House/Restaurant) last weekend as well. The wife of the 'birthday-boy' had made an amazing cake with a gorgeous chocolate sauce (shame about the diet) and the restaurant put mini fireworks on top-mini versions of the fountains that you get around November 5th- tho' it's quite an experience to see them on a cake being carriend towards the table!

Mangoes are in season- this is great and means there's a bit more variety in the fruit available, also- i love mangoes and some of the ones I have had here are totally gorgeous- so sweet and no stringyness at all. We had a false start to the season back in early January, but I think the season is now in full swing. Apparently there are so many mangoes each year that people can't eat all of them and so you end up with a lot of rotting mangoes at the end of the season. I was discussing this problem and the idea of dry mangoes out and exporting came up- the main problem here is that people don't want to invest in something like this- that takes time to put in place and time to make money back on (compared to say the mineral extraction that's happening all over the country, where it's much easiser to make quick money). It's sad because something like this could provide a lot of employment for people but just won't happen due to lack of investment.

Labels: beach, birthday, mangoes

posted by Nenya @ 12:10 pm