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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Tag Archive for 'pig'
The vegetable variety!
I've done a heap of searching on the net and have not been able to find any reference to this exotic vegetable.
Within PNG culture but even more so here in the Highland's it…
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And how I ended up with the “shits”…
I have been crook the past week. Diarrhoea (spelling?) and strong pains in the gut. It all started when I “pigged” out on some Marata last week…
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Point form follows:- Apologies for not posting for a couple of days.- Been doing the Linux thing again: - Replaced Firestarter firewall with Shorewall - Installed a product called Webmin (pretty cool!) - Installed a…
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We arrived back safely from “Wara-guma” a couple of hours ago. Like always our stay in the village was both relaxing and refreshing.Highlights from the weekend (in point form) are as follows:- Anthony, our irish…
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Continued from yesterday.
- On the 30th of December I got a visit by four elders from the
neighbouring Keto tribe. They came to Wara-guma to discuss issues around the forming of the Association and to share…
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And somewhere nearby three members of the same family died within a 12 hour period. The first to die was a middle aged male. Cause of death: unknown and /or suspicious.The other two were females…
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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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Point form follows:
- Had a great three days out at the “Hut”. Jules, an AVI volunteer, joined
us out at the village and had a great time. On Sunday morning - just after
waking up - I…
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(I wrote the following ranting this past weekend in our “hut” at Wara-guma. I was preparing for a meeting of the local 8 clans to discuss the setting up of a local Association / Cooperative…
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During the four weeks that Mum has stayed with us in PNG she has experienced the following:- True PNG hospitality and friendliness.- An overnight stay with a real village chief.- Some pretty hairy 4 wheel…
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Standing next to Mum as we both stood in front of the “Hut” for the first time was one of those magic moments in life.
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We live just around he corner from the National Sports Institute (NSI), this is the location where vote counting is taking place for the whole of the Eastern Highlands Province (EHP). It has been a…
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Here is how the “Hut” looked as of yesterday…
The rest of the photos I took yesterday can be viewed in the “The “Hut” @ Waraguma (Kaubasis)” photo
album.
We also said goodbye to young Paul…
Paul heads back…
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The “Hut” is starting to take shape…Today I visited Kaubasis to check out the “Hut” and it was the 1st time I travelled to the village on my lonesome. Our “dream” home is definitely starting…
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Is the mumu pit !!Even Mr and Mrs Oink - or “Prof” and “Princess” will eventually end up like all other pigs in PNG… being slaughtered and eaten.”Prof” and “Princess” have departed the pothole riddled…
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(wrote this ranting during the supervision of the IS326 exam)The Land of the Unexpected!Tribalism, magic and religion,churches, preachers and song,fresh food, buai and plenty of languages,corruption, violence and laughter.Papua New Guinea……expect the unexpected!PMV's, potholes and…
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Tis 6:45pm Saturday evening and I go “live” in about half an hour!Some nerves and jitters around the gut area at the prospect of standing up in front of (hopefully) a full house - probably…
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It's something else !!
The internet is working fine this afternoon. There is one slight hiccup
though and that is my blog site is down!!
If it's not one thing it's definitely something else !!
May as well head…
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