Now I'm in Sydney, it's nearly all over. It's still hot (though I am for the first time finding it less hot than the Australians) and I'm still surrounded by children, thanks to my cousin's baby twins. But in every other way it is very different from Africa and from Europe. For example I'm in a café and my coffee arrived within five minutes of ordering it . After Christmas in Eldoret we picked up my mum from the airport. The next day we drove to Machakos th...

Testing Testing... Hello everyone, don't get too excited I'm still in Wellington, but I'm just checking to make sure I know how to use this blog. Because I'm not going to feel like trying it out tomorrow at 3.30am when I get up to fly from Wellington to Sydney to Bangkok. My mother is unimpressed but has made an ingenious plan to put her makeup on before she goes to bed so that she wakes up ready to go. I'm not sure exactly who at the airport she is trying to ...