colonic irrigation

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Awake early, I decided to get up to watch the sunrise over the mountains opposite. I settled myself on one of the huge boulders that lay strewn around the garden. The shadow on the slopes behind descends quickly. You feel a cold breeze on your back and warm air on your front as the yellow light in the sky intensifies over the peak. I watched a bird of prey soaring over the valley and storcks land in a nearby tree. The sun broke over the peak, the trees and plants in the garden below me were thrown into shadow and light, and I sat and meditated for ½ hour before breakfast. I’ll try to do that more often, and get some photos too.
Yesterday was uneventful. The lid of the brick-press broke so I went with sifiso to get it welded at Lobombo, 10 mins drive down the road. There were cans for sale, about the size of a small watering can, with a tube coming out the bottom. When Sifiso told me they were for diy colonic irrigation I thought he was winding me up, but another guy confirmed it. They told me that swazis like to flush out their stomachs the natural way, without pills. Came back via the parliament building and museum area, then over the other side of the road to drive through the housing settlement at lobombo and past the Mantenga reserve. I’ll be able to walk down there one weekend.
Haven’t been to bars or restaurants very much, because of the curfew after dark. You can go out in a taxi, but it seems a bit of a fag. Went for a meal at Quatermains at the gables shopping centre for food that was like decent pub food. Apparently Malendalas is better and cheaper. The best things were the waiter’s bemusement at the girls’ requests for dozens of group photos and the hard-bitten white south Africans chuckling through their cigarette smoke. Went into a swish bar/restaurant with Iona yesterday to kill time waiting for the post office to open after lunch. Felt very grubby as we’d come straight from work. Iona studies anthropology so has some great insights into the culture here.
Long day at work today - 6 hrs on site and it was very hot again. Only 3 of us in the morning which makes it tough. Two of the girls from the ncp came up to help later on.
Swazi meal tonight. I’m starving.
I'm watching the bats fly round in the garden in front of the lodge.

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Comments

[em]

your adventures sound so good hope you enjoy the coguar park next week and to let us know all what happened and what you see miss you, love you x

[em s]

fab
I so thought you were trying to tell us that you had the trots!! Glad you are having fun keep up the log I am really enjoying reading about your adventures! e, r, d, j

[mother in law from heaven.]

Really good to hear all your news it sounds absoulutely fabulous. Cant wiat to see some photos. Have you found me a giraffe yet? Emma is fine we are looking after her, she has put on two stone and is looking really healthy ! We have had lots of retail therapy and spent millions, the house has been fully refurbished and looks as beautiful as Emma. Elvis has been really good only destroying some of the new furnishings. We spent the day redesigning the garden and you wont recognise it when you get back. Struggled to spend a whole day shoping in Canterbury as the Merc had to go in to be looked at for our forthcoming trip to the Isle Of Wight which we are all really looking forward to. Bagheera and Bella are recovering nicely from their ops, pleased thats over with! Well you take care of you must rush the shops are still open. Take care lots of love from Lynnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Dino]

Hey Martin... glad to see you're enjoying yourself! your descriptive blogs are making me very homesick!! Well I've got my official letter now, so 8 weeks until unemployment, and 10 until I get home..woohoo

[Denis]

Awesom stuff
Awesom stuff, Martin! I follow your adventures all the way from Kalamazoo... I can't wait to see the pictures, have you tried to connect the memory card straight to the laptop, rather than through the camera? It should work without drivers... I would like to see some pictures of your white skinny body pressing these heavy red earth bricks :)