Christmas came in extravagant fashion, A glitzy hotel in Abu Dhabi has put on show a jewel-encrusted Christmas tree which it says is worth over $11m.The tree alone is worth $10000, while the jewellery adds more than $11m to the value. ...
Apologies to those of you waiting for the ABC report of their meeting with Hasan Sungur on Feb 16th, but, for reasons that are obvious we have all been away from the computer for a few days. The report seems to be the most sensible ...
And all the other things- the hotels in Vic Falls and the excitement of being on holiday and ordering breakfast, the not-too-resorty ?resortiness? of Vic Falls, the crocodile farm, watching the hippos swim at A'Zambezi River Lodge? .... From the endlessly-repeated riffs and plaintive sound of the lead guitar in sungura, to the sort of Afro-jazz sound of Oliver Mtukudzi, to the vernacular choral music we sing at the Anglican church, that has the ability to move me so? ...
