Robert@PNG

Slowly takes shape!!

And we move into 2nd gear!

After a visit to the village last week by a local coffee exporter we are
now ready to sell our 1st batch of coffee. Approximately 200 x 50kg bags of Highlands primo. Our friend the coffee exporter has offered to send one of his trucks out to the village to do a pickup and also to buy the coffee from us at factory price - a definite win for the old village farmer!

We are in the process of working out logistics and it's no simple
matter. When one lives and works in the Land of the Unexpected) and Untrusted) - one must take precautions and plan for certain
contingencies. In PNG - anything that includes cash in the equation
needs to be monitored very closely and the chances of something going astray is a real risk.

A few of us met tonight at home to discuss the above and prepare for a meeting scheduled for tomorrow with the exporter.

Great stuff and a win for many!!

In the meantime I continue to plug away at the old blog migration and just to prove I am getting somewhere - here's a photo I posted yesterday in my new online album at www.trupela.com/albums - from Mum's trip to PNG last year…

(Little miss piggy about to cop a bang on the head - during the official opening of our Hut during Mum's visit to the village)

All of the photos that I took during Mum's visit are now online - next will be the photos that she took!

Note that I have posted over 200 photos in the past two days - something unheard of with my old blogging platform. So - although its still early days - I'm already benefiting from the move.

The time has come….