Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Beach holiday, stranded star and nails.

1. The water at Nungwi Beach is clear and blue and warm. Rosey and I were so entranced by it that we got sunburn from playing too long in the sea.

2. Rob found a huge and knobbly red and black starfish for us.

3. Having clean feet and fingernails. When you are camping, and when the nearest sink is over there somewhere behind those palm trees and there is no soap anyway, my nails get grimy, even with regular mealtime Detol scrubbing. But we are staying in a hotel room with a shower, and soap; and we have been swimming a lot, so my hands are purfickly clean.

Nungwi Beach, Zanzibar

Watering cans, eating alone and settling down.

1. The grounding weight of my watering cans. 2. Our schedules mean that I eat supper alone in the peaceable, silent kitchen. 3. Now the chil...