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The Daily Telegraph ran a series of letters from readers about remote vacation destinations. Among them was this report about Kidepo:
Cut off from the familiar in a Ugandan national park
Kidepo Valley National Park, in north east Uganda, is where I headed with my family in 1992. We were lucky enough to spend four nights there, in rugged savannah country dominated by Mount Morungole and studded with rocky outcrops.
Continue reading “Kidepo in the 90’s”
The news that the Uganda Wildlife Authority is translocating Kob to Kidepo is exciting for me because my friends Pat and Lyn at Ngamoru have been calling for this to happen for many years.
Continue reading “Kob translocated to Kidepo”
Hüüt hemmr d’ erst August, ond zur Fiir des Tags hemr es neus Chläberli uf d’ Räddli:
Today my cell phone company sent me an unsolicited offer for free French lessons timed to coincide precisely with the period when my French tutor will be out of town.
The new land border crossing between Egypt and Sudan, which I first wrote about just over a year ago, has now been officially opened.
This means the Wadi-Halfa to Abu Simbel route should finally be drivable, with only a short hop on a boat across the lake from Qustul. Continue reading “Egypt-Sudan crossing update 2: official opening”
Our houseplant was looking a little droopy and depressed so I brought it outside for a little extra sunshine. Instead of a greening, parts of each leaf turned black:
Our lemon grass plant isn’t getting enough sun where it is so I decided to try to split it up and move some of its babies to sunnier parts of the yard. This was the original plant, after I already ripped off about a third of it on the left part:
I think this is rooted too shallow. It’s kind of falling over and has a lot of young-looking roots. The clumps come apart easily. After the photo above I pulled off the clump on the right side. Here it is after separating it: Continue reading “Propagating lemon grass from side shoots”
While installing Sage 50 Accounting, a $450-per-seat finance software developed by one of the world’s largest enterprise software vendors, I couldn’t believe my eyes when it threw this warning that it is incompatible with IPV6:
What a disgrace. I guess I should be grateful that it knows euros?
Eat your heart out, inbox zero.
It only took eight months, but I finally got my own email address. I feel so grown-up now.
Sometimes the necessary is necessary. We’d all love to have OSHA-approved, explosion-proof, self-filtering stainless steel parts washers. The rest of time we use half of a plastic jerry can with a liter of kerosene.
