Blogs from Gaborone, South-East, Botswana, Africa - page 4

This evening the Kitchen has been foresaken in favour of the lobby - Sunday off means a fully charged laptop and a pre-midnight posting! As promised, and by special request, VftK brings you a Rogues Gallery of the CWB team in Botswana as seen this week in Mochudi and surrounding villages. The Meerkat's report on our first day off since coaching began will appear tomorrow. Cheers... read more

Greetings from the kitchen where tonight the cats are absent and my only company is the snoozing security guard who lies prone on the floor gently snoring, shoes off, but still wearing his official uniform - a white laboratory coat........( pictures will follow !) Tonight's pictures come from Friday's afternoon sessions in the Oodi area and extend our coverage of interesting footware to play cricket in started by Violet's Stilettos earlier in the week. Running Totals After our first week in Botswana, daily totals for Friday/Saturday are :- Friday 23rd : 75 child training sessions 18 coach training sessions (assessments) Saturday 24th : 150 child training sessions with the BCA Running Totals at the end of week one: 562 child training sessions 87 coach training sessions Blog News Friday’s blog - brought to you by Reeves ... read more

Cricket & Botswana- the perfect Combi-Nation Wednesday 21st October Following a cracking evening at our the local Portugese restaurant an earli(ish) night for most of us and a limit on the girls’ wine intake, things began much the same as usual….Mike G arose tired and a little grumpy having endured another broken nights sleep fighting against Tony’s foghorn snoring, whilst the rest of us picked at another ‘special’ Brackendene breakfast. Luckily for us a further 8 local canines hadn’t lost their cherished manhoods over night as we were served omelets rather than the unusually coloured grisly sausages. Only Mike showed true disappointment at this omission from the menu, apparently enjoying the unexpected crunch he was usually greeted by as he bit down on his 10 inch sausages! Off to Mochudi and another morning at Lady Mitchison ... read more

View from the Kitchen Those of you who read the Day One blog will know that posting it here at the Brackendene Lodge is a delicate balance of Wifi and power....For future visitors the attached picture shows 'IT' Command Centre for CWB Botswana in the optimal working location! VftK will bring brief updates on the vital statistics of the work here in Botswana as well as other useful(?) and interesting information - we may even bring some of Mike Griggs' standup routine...... As ever I'm joined here tonight by my(new) feline assistant...... So our items tonight are :- 1) The Running Totals :- Monday :- Coaches Taught= 19 Children Coached = 84 Tuesday :- Coaches Taught = 19 Children Coached = 99 Running Totals:- Coaches = 19 Children = 183 2) CWB Botswana in the Press ... read more

Monday Morning - Mochudi The work began today with the drive up to Mochudi in our hired Combi. 8 CWBers plus Innocent and Ovbet, our Botswanan development coaches crammed in together with our kit and the BCA photographer. A couple of detours, in search of water for the day (we bought the stock of the Mochoudi Spar), saw us eventually arrive at the Lady Mitchison School. Expecting a short set on introductions prior to getting down to the business of coaching, we were treated to a fabulous welcome involving being introduced to all the staff and the boys and girls who had already played some cricket. Together they them treated us to a rendition of the Botswana National Anthem followed by prayers. However they left the best to last as we were led outside to be ... read more