Here's a little puzzle for you to do!
Can you spot the difference between the three photos below?
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Did you guess correctly?
That's right! There is no difference! The characters in all three photos are the same! Namely Melanie Bousfield and Rick Ress! Ok, if you want to get clever, the backgrounds might be a bit different but that's not the point is it? Is it Mel?!!!!!!!!!
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Mum & Dad visit!
Mum & Dad were out for a long time recently, over three weeks!
We had a good time, went to Lusaka and stayed at the Chisamba Safari Lodge, always a pleasure.
Also went out for loads of meals, did lots of gym, swimming, sunning, talking non stop (of course), had both our wedding anniversaries (!!!) and generally a great time.......
until Justin got 'giardia'......"AAAAAAARGHG! WHAT THE HELL'S GIARDIA?" I hear you scream!
Well, Justin is now the expert (wouldn't you be if you found you had little nasty things living in your gut?!)
Anyway, it's like this..... apparently it's rampant all over the Copperbelt, so we're told by anyone we mention it to, and is a waterborne parasite, picked up from water contaminated by wildlife.............EEEEEK! Could it have been from our dead snake in the well? Seems likely but then again I've been fine and how would thousands (?) of people on the Copperbelt have got it then?
Long and short of it is...Justin took the pills, I took the pills (as precaution) and now our night guard appears to have it so he's on the pills and now our other two staff are also on the pills as a precaution.
So there you have it, but for the record, you need a 5 day course of metronidazole - 30 tablets 200mg - take 2 every 8 hours.
If that doesn't kill it (and it didn't Justin's) then take Tinidazole 2grm - 4 x 500mg tabs in one go and they should be well and truly dead and buried.
We had a good time, went to Lusaka and stayed at the Chisamba Safari Lodge, always a pleasure.
Also went out for loads of meals, did lots of gym, swimming, sunning, talking non stop (of course), had both our wedding anniversaries (!!!) and generally a great time.......
until Justin got 'giardia'......"AAAAAAARGHG! WHAT THE HELL'S GIARDIA?" I hear you scream!
Well, Justin is now the expert (wouldn't you be if you found you had little nasty things living in your gut?!)
Anyway, it's like this..... apparently it's rampant all over the Copperbelt, so we're told by anyone we mention it to, and is a waterborne parasite, picked up from water contaminated by wildlife.............EEEEEK! Could it have been from our dead snake in the well? Seems likely but then again I've been fine and how would thousands (?) of people on the Copperbelt have got it then?
Long and short of it is...Justin took the pills, I took the pills (as precaution) and now our night guard appears to have it so he's on the pills and now our other two staff are also on the pills as a precaution.
So there you have it, but for the record, you need a 5 day course of metronidazole - 30 tablets 200mg - take 2 every 8 hours.
If that doesn't kill it (and it didn't Justin's) then take Tinidazole 2grm - 4 x 500mg tabs in one go and they should be well and truly dead and buried.
"Horror of man eaten limb by limb in Chingola!"
Once upon a time there was a man called Mr Rowntree....yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah,..................
Ok, due to the fact that my husband is totally addicted to Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles and due to the fact that my Mum and Dad always go mad when they come out to visit us, we ended up with enough fruit pastilles to...um.....make a 'man on the bed'....for instance!! well, I did, for fun.....you know what I say about having fun here....gotta do whatever it takes....and if that means behaving like a twelve year old and making up men shapes out of packets of sweets and displaying them 'proudly' on the bed, then so be it.....so that's it really, so he was a man and he has been eaten limb by limb in Chingola................but I don't think he endured too much pain.... I did though, all I got was a couple of packets of M & S walnut whips, squashed as well, oh, and some fudge, hmmm, dairy milk too I seem to recall.....and......alright I didn't do so badly...
Ok, due to the fact that my husband is totally addicted to Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles and due to the fact that my Mum and Dad always go mad when they come out to visit us, we ended up with enough fruit pastilles to...um.....make a 'man on the bed'....for instance!! well, I did, for fun.....you know what I say about having fun here....gotta do whatever it takes....and if that means behaving like a twelve year old and making up men shapes out of packets of sweets and displaying them 'proudly' on the bed, then so be it.....so that's it really, so he was a man and he has been eaten limb by limb in Chingola................but I don't think he endured too much pain.... I did though, all I got was a couple of packets of M & S walnut whips, squashed as well, oh, and some fudge, hmmm, dairy milk too I seem to recall.....and......alright I didn't do so badly...
Saturday, April 23, 2005
A house warming with a difference!
We were well chuffed to spend yesterday evening at Donald & Michelle's new house which they've been building for the last two years!
It was just the four of us,a bottle of Moet, a few beers, a bottle of red and a bottle of whisky!
We had a guided tour of the house, almost ready for them to move into, and very nice it is too!
We sat for hours on their bedroom verandah sipping our drinks and chatting and had a great evening!
Thanks guys! We wish you years of happiness in your new home and many more evenings like last night's!
It was just the four of us,a bottle of Moet, a few beers, a bottle of red and a bottle of whisky!
We had a guided tour of the house, almost ready for them to move into, and very nice it is too!
We sat for hours on their bedroom verandah sipping our drinks and chatting and had a great evening!
Thanks guys! We wish you years of happiness in your new home and many more evenings like last night's!
Snakes Alive!
I had quite a scare about a week ago when I found Tali, our little jack russell, staring at a cobra through the animals' 'tunnel' from their room. I was alerted to this when Satchel, our big lab,, went up behind her and dropped down low and started growling. I knew that a fast movement was probably a bad idea but the thing was sitting up and swaying and staring right at Tali and she appeared hypnotised (do they hypnotise? Does anyone know?). I thought it was probably about to strike or spit. so I grabbed her straight up in the air, shoved Satchel with my knees out of the room and ran down the passage with Tali in my arms, shoving Satchel with me! I screamed for Patrick who was down there cleaning. He opened the door, I put the dogs in (Bella our sausage dog was already in there) and we both ran back up. the cobra was still there, Patrick ran for a stick, calling for Fred, the gardener while I grabbed Ziggy, one of our three cats, and literally threw him out of the front door, poor thing!
The two boys ran to the verandah but the snake suddenly disappeared. We all spent the next few hours searching for the snake as we couldn't risk leaving it. We also didn't know if it had come in the house so we had to check right through inside as well. Eventually Fred announced that it was in the storm drain tunnel that runs under our bedroom passage! We blocked it up and tried to smoke it out, etc, to no avail. We temporarily blocked up the drain and then we had to brick up the storm drain the next day permanently. We had discovered that there was a kind of ledge in the drain, under the house and it had obviously gone in there. The ideal snake nest!
This was enough to stress me out (ok, we've had plenty of snakes in the garden, mainly black mambas, as far as we knew, but the boys always got them further down the garden, this one was a but too close to home!)
The end of the story one would think, but no..........
A couple of days ago we noticed that our water was smelling very unpleasant and when the boys checked our well they found a very large dead snake! Charming! (look, I feel sorry for the snakes, we have, after all, encroached on their natural habitats over the years and where are the poor things supposed to go?)
They got the snake out and it was pretty awful, I must say....took us two days to clear the well and tank, even using pool chlorine to sanitise it.
So now we're left with the mystery................
Was it a cobra sitting on the verandah? (apparently mambas also 'sit' up and they're all part of the same family) Was it a cobra in the well? Have the snakes been nesting under our passage in the ledge in the storm drain? Is that why we've had so many snakes compared with everyone else, in our garden? If so, have we solved it by blocking up the drain? Was the snake in the well the one I saw or another one and what was the one in the drain?
Questions, questions....
But mainly relief that for now, at least, we feel a bit safer!
I've posted a couple of photos of the snake in the well and when we got it out.......not very tasteful, sorry about that, but can anyone tell me if it is a cobra?
The two boys ran to the verandah but the snake suddenly disappeared. We all spent the next few hours searching for the snake as we couldn't risk leaving it. We also didn't know if it had come in the house so we had to check right through inside as well. Eventually Fred announced that it was in the storm drain tunnel that runs under our bedroom passage! We blocked it up and tried to smoke it out, etc, to no avail. We temporarily blocked up the drain and then we had to brick up the storm drain the next day permanently. We had discovered that there was a kind of ledge in the drain, under the house and it had obviously gone in there. The ideal snake nest!
This was enough to stress me out (ok, we've had plenty of snakes in the garden, mainly black mambas, as far as we knew, but the boys always got them further down the garden, this one was a but too close to home!)
The end of the story one would think, but no..........
A couple of days ago we noticed that our water was smelling very unpleasant and when the boys checked our well they found a very large dead snake! Charming! (look, I feel sorry for the snakes, we have, after all, encroached on their natural habitats over the years and where are the poor things supposed to go?)
They got the snake out and it was pretty awful, I must say....took us two days to clear the well and tank, even using pool chlorine to sanitise it.
So now we're left with the mystery................
Was it a cobra sitting on the verandah? (apparently mambas also 'sit' up and they're all part of the same family) Was it a cobra in the well? Have the snakes been nesting under our passage in the ledge in the storm drain? Is that why we've had so many snakes compared with everyone else, in our garden? If so, have we solved it by blocking up the drain? Was the snake in the well the one I saw or another one and what was the one in the drain?
Questions, questions....
But mainly relief that for now, at least, we feel a bit safer!
I've posted a couple of photos of the snake in the well and when we got it out.......not very tasteful, sorry about that, but can anyone tell me if it is a cobra?
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