A very useful – and delicious – multi purpose tomato sauce, dip or spread from Malawi. Continue reading Danforth Tomato Relish
Author: Marion Fuller-Sessions
Retired and downsized, and sadly now widowed, but keeping in touch with family and friends and friends far and wide via my blog
The Eyes Have It!
This is a pictorial post for a change!
John has been having some fun with his African pics, and has made a collage of a series of eyes: beast, bird and human.
I ams sure he can find more, but this will do for the time being…
Elephants, Leopards, Lions…
At last! We have uploaded hundreds of images from our recent African trip. You’ll find the ‘Big Four’, plus wild dogs, crocodiles and fish eagles and many more creatures. We can’t provide you the ‘Five’ as there are apparently no rhinos in the Luangwa Valley, which is where we have been.
Continue reading Elephants, Leopards, Lions…
Apologies from a Blogging Late Learner
Jeremy Brough, our ‘web guru’ friend was here all day yesterday helping us sort out various problems we have been encountering, mainly – but not all – to do with photos.
We loaded lots – but not all – of John’s photos, and have started creating galleries so people can just look at the specific group of photos – e.g. flowers, Zambia, or whatever. This is a work in process. Continue reading Apologies from a Blogging Late Learner
Marion’s Fake Bakewell Recipe
I’ve been making our Fake Bakewells for over 40 years, and we haven’t got tired of it yet! Continue reading Marion’s Fake Bakewell Recipe
Back to Normal?
Back to normal? It’s hardly been back to normal, yet…
On Saturday July 10th, 1965 John and I were married in Ringmore Church – the lovely little parish church in the charming village on the South Devon coast where my parents had retired (and where, several decades later, Sara and Derek were also married).
A Little Rural Contrast
By way of a complete change of scenery…
Bradbourne is a very small village, one of Parwich’s nearest neighbours, but by a geographical quirk it is technically Matlock, whilst we are Ashbourne, with different telephone and postal codes so for some funny reason it seems further than it is.
Unusually, it is a ‘Thankful Village’, the only village in Derbyshire which suffered not a single casualty for soldiers fighting in either World War. Continue reading A Little Rural Contrast
Safe Landings
Sorry for the media silence, and now all you have is a photoless blog post. Can’t blame anything other than indolence, slight travel weariness and a 6″ pile of letters, bills etc waiting hopefully for urgent attention on the kitchen table. Continue reading Safe Landings
Snorkelling without Crocodiles
I am writing this aboard the Mufasa, a beautiful catamaran. She is the pride and joy of Howard and Michele who own Danforth Yachting where we are staying. Lucky people can charter her for a day or even a week or more, and we are out for the day.
The point of our outing, as well as sheer enjoyment, is for me – John has refused outright – to view underwater some of the Ciclids, for which Malawi is famous and for John to try to capture a photo of a Fish Eagle fishing. All this without meeting the elusive croc that has been sighted, or Continue reading Snorkelling without Crocodiles
Hello to Malawi
Our Final Episode
We are now in Malawi for a relaxing few days wind down beside Lake Malawi. We have had to a learn a whole new vocabulary – no talk of Nyasaland or Lake Nyasa and the local currency, the Malawi Kwacha – 1000MK equals about 70p I think so it has taken a while to realise that nothing costs quite as
much as it feels.
English is the Malawi national language, spoken with varying degrees of fluency. The people, like the Zambian, seem very courteous, friendly and essentially happy although apparently the AIDS problem is enormous. Continue reading Hello to Malawi