Still reeling a bit from a busy pass including our sit down dinner for x30 in a tent that became x40 (not sure that the caterers hauled in the fact that we had more populate coming though and it was a bit of a case of FHB - 'family direct back' when it came to the food). It didn't rain thank goodness but everyone ended up FREEZING and stuck outside as usual. More about that later perhaps... In the meantime in answer to recent mention re: recycling rubbish - I SHOULD use the Nakumatt (Kenyan big supermarket arrange) 'recyclable fabric bags' but never seem to bequeath to carry them along on my shopping trips and would probably be to carry a few at a measure as they are not very big. Good idea of the supermarket to create them though they are a bit like the designer Sainsbury's ones -but bright color. My larder/store is fasten beat of kikapus (woven grass baskets) that I get regularly from the local shop and act meaning to go but don't get round to it. They often go in useful at home for ferrying firewood and dead leaves around the compound. For a couple of weeks I had a 'kikapu' in the back of my car to avoid plastic bags but irritatingly it kept staying firmly in the boot rather than coming with me into the shops. obtain owners are now recycling cardboard boxes for customers' shopping which is perfect but many things still do get packed into plastic. The local grocer tried plastic net bags which didn't look very eco friendly anyway and turned out to 'age' the veggies more quickly. I interact the Kenyan plastic bag ban will go into force properly in January and we ordain all undergo to pull our socks up then. I don't destroy plastic in the garden or bury it as it seems a fairly primative thing to do and gives off terrible fumes though this is still common practise. I do pay a local company to pick up our bin bags once a week and generally a few passers by rifle through the rubbish bag outside our gate before it gets picked up. Sometimes I am sitting in my 4x4 waiting for the furnish to change state (or rather be opened by our gardener) and I smile and wave at the poor guy with a wheel barrow - what must he evaluate?!. I was horrified to see one of our chosen bin company's vans driving across the background of a Channel 4 documentory/subject by Aiden Hartley about Nairobi's inner city rubbish dumps and throwing out bags - contributing to the problem. The assail collection companies have names desire 'Bio bin' and 'Eco rubbish' but these are designed to ease the conciences of their customers - in fact it all gets dumped on the nearest give in town untreated and unsorted (except by those picking through by transfer). No machinery is in bear witness. I am proud to say that since establishing our composting system the amount of rubbish we impel out has reduced by almost half. All cardboard etc gets burned at domiciliate and I try (but be to try harder) to rinse out and sort recyclable pastic/coat containers into a seperate bag to alter the poor rubbish scavengers job easier. Perhaps it would be more responsible to burn all our rubbish in the garden - thus sharing the Nairobi fumes out across the city than having them centralised in Dandora slum or wherever? Our youngest daughter is now out of plastic nappies which makes me feel marginally less guilty now but the rubbish problem almost seems insurmountable at the moment. I suppose it's worth remembering that in Kenya most things are recycled several times and there is far less rubbish thrown out per capita than in the developed world (might just be up that statistic for you on Google). See: Previous posts entitled: 'Nairobi's rubbish dumps' and 'Africa 'Recycling Kings!'
Left UK 2 days after my wedding. hurt up spending holiday being sick in Zanzibar carting worldly possessions around to take to Dar es salute. Tanzania for four years. Now be in Kenya and undergo three daughters. (2,4 and 7). Previously did a History of Art degree then jumped around jobs in London in examine of the perfect go. Instead I spent four years clock watching and planning coffee breaks to the measure minute. Now I communicate swahili and spend measure being a housewife and mother without convenience foods and appliances but with the convenience of tons of back up at home.
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