Can be viewed in my new online Photo Album.All the photos that we took during Mum's visit to PNG have been put in two separate albums as follows:1) My photos.2) Photos by Mum.Here's a photo…
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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…
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The following story as it appeared in Friday's edition of The National…(Note the reference to Robert Schilt in the story!)Kevin Rudd,
yu trupela manBy HARLYNE JOKU
GOROKA town came to a stand still, excitement filled the…
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The Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is currently in PNG on an official visit. Today he's in Moresby but tomorrow he will be paying a short visit to Goroka in the Highland's. Yes Goroka!More interestingly…
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And more on sanguma (sorcery).Story as it appeared in today's The National newspaper:By ZACHERY PER
POLICE in the Eastern Highlands province are
tracking a death squad that has been responsible for the alleged killing of
two…
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We head out to Wara-guma” for our monthly visit.
The thought of spending a couple of nights away from town and worries of it “all” is already giving me a sense of relief.
I had another tech…
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All the photos taken last April on our visit to Fatao village have now
been posted.
You know what this means don't you…
There's a about a thousand more to post before I finally catch up.
Ideally would like…
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My office at home is going to be relocated.
I had a tradesman out this afternoon to install a lock on the door of
one of the spare rooms. The office and anything else of value…
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It is just now that I am starting to get on top of work. Work, meaning:
work-work (Hospital), emails, blogging etc… The laptop “crash”
combined with an almost obsession with Linux things got pushed back so
to speak.
Having…
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A couple of weeks ago I picked up three parcels from Goroka Post Office. They were xmas parcels and were sent to me by the family back in Sydney.
XMAS was definitely not the same this…
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Was a private sort of a day.A 10 point summary:1) Had “half” the clan over last night. I think about 15 bunked down for the night - young and old. All up from Lae for…
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The last couple of days have been hectic to say the least. With the passing away of Eli's grandad (bubu Kandoni) we have had family coming to the house making arrangments for the funeral, coffin…
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I contributed K150 towards a coffin!
First time for everything. Bubu Kandoni (Eli's maternal pops) passed away yesterday morning and I thought the least I could do was help out the family with a contribution. One…
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(as in sundry)- 8:20pm - a house half full of folks and here I am in the lounge room writing this post.- Life is good…- I've back of from the Linux obsession (for now).- Gelo…
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And thanks to VoIP technology we were able to call her on Skype and wish her the best of bestest days. We even got to see her on video!Happy birthday Mum!!! (74 and still kicking!)Thank…
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At the opening of the “Hut” at Waraguma during Mum's stay recently and during one of the formal “items” on the day's agenda - I was given clan name by two of the elders…Bolku Kessnah…
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Here's a great shot of Mum at the “hut” the day that we celebrated the opening…(I'm still working through the posting photos from Mum's visit 2007… )…
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PNG village women are capable of (and expected to) carry incredible loads!!Here's the proof…and with a smile on their face!(This photo was taken at Mangiro Junction just before we walked into the village with Mum…
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