I came home yesterday to find Marceline sitting on the veranda. She greeted me excitedly:
"Naomi's walking, Naomi's walking!"
"Excellent, let's see!" I said, (because a child's every development should obviously be available for exhibition at any given moment for the entertainment of any adult who may demand it).
Last Saturday started rather strangely, as we were roused from bed by a loud bang which turned out to be Sylvester's car being hit by a taxi. A Taxi slammed right into his driver door as he was waiting to turn left. Fortunately he's almost completely unhurt (a few grazes and a headache), but you wouldn't believe it to look at the car.
Swindon Town got promotion! I'm very pleased that we've managed to bounce striaght back up after dropping down last year. Our relegation last year was a close thing, as was our promotion this time around, but it seems we've been playing some good football this year. Obviously I can't confirm this, having not been to any games because I'm in Africa, (and because I average one game a season anyway...) but I don't care, because we went up!
There was a long weekend in Cameroon last weekend. Tuesday was Labour Day, and apparently if a holiday falls on a Tuesday, then the Monday is also a holiday. Great! This was our last chance to ponce around the country like tourists before we go home, as I'm teacing almost everyday until we leave, and Hev needs to be in the Health sorry, advice centre everyday.
I've just spent a day (in between teaching, programming and watching an all-English Champions League™ ® semi) trying to download a quicktime of the trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
I completed my course of rabies injections this week, having been bitten by dog back in January. This was the final injection of a course of six, administered on days 0, 3, 7, 14, 28 (or 30, depending which instructions you were following) and 90 after the incident of possible (but probably not) infection. I mention this because I'd previously heard from a few people that Rabies injections were terrible, really painful,etc. I think one story involved an elderly member of a family refusing the injection entirely, preferring to take her chances.
So, three British teams in the final four of the Champions League ® then. I'm not sure it proves that the Premier League ™ is the greatest league in the world or anything, but it is rather gratifying. For a start, it guarantees a British team (okay, okay, English team, who am I kidding) in the final for the third year in a row.
Not bad.
Hev and I went round Bill's for a Mexican-themed Easter celebration last night. We've been plotting an attempt at a Mexican feast, as it slowly dawned on us that most of the ingredients for a passable attempt at Mexican food are available in Buea. The exceptions to this are sour cream (no chance) and coriander, which is strangely absent from Cameroon's vast array of herbs and spices. The final piece of the jigsaw came when Bill mentioned that he had a recipe for making tortillas! Game on! So on Sunday afternoon, we rocked up to Bill's and we all got busy in the kitchen.
There's always been something a bit Rodney Trotter about Rio Ferdinand, his forgetting a drug test being just one example of his plonker status, but his own goal for Portmouth on Saturday really took the biscuit.
I started watching the match just before half-time. Man Utd were a goal down. Excellent, thinks I, this should make for a good secong half. I expected Man U to come forward in droves, and they did. I was waiting for Man U to make the breakthtough and it never came, until...
Step forward, Rodney Ferdinand.
Over the last couple of weeks I've gradually become aware that a few of HINT's internet cafe customers seem to be engaging in email scams. I'd noticed that a couple of guys were looking at small ads sites in Europe and the States, which seemed a little irregular. I kept an eye out (because I was concerned and because attitudes to privacy are quite different here...) and it became clear that they were indeed running scams.