February 2012 in Tanzania through the eyes of an Englishman
Mystery picture. |
4/2/2012 - Enforced Break.I've been incapacitated for a couple of days by some mysterious transient bug. I went to bed very tired on Wednesday night, and developed an earache. That kept me awake most of the night, and when I woke I felt lousy, very weak, and had no appetite for anything. Adia went to a pharmacy and got be some steroid/antibiotic ear drops, which seemed to fix the ear, but I still felt very weak, and didn't eat, and retired to bed very early. The next day I felt similarly limp, and started to have joint pain in my left hand and right foot. Once again I went to bed early, but that time dosed up with Diclofenac. This morning I feel much better, ate breakfast, but will take another rest day. So I was noodling over the web, and looked again at a photo posted by Laura Butterly on Jan 30. I had not done so carefully before, but this time I'm pretty sure I got the message. It's basically a 'find the mystery object' picture, and I thought that just for fun I would try to make my own version, which is today's picture. How's about a LBMP contest. |
| Demonstrate your photographic skills my making your own version, and stick it on facebook with a tag 'LBMP', or send it to BEV. It's not the easiest of things to get right. And, first of all of course, you have to find the mystery object ;=) | |
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Check out the BEV retrospectivecurrently covering 1942 - 1975. 1976 is yet to be started.
What is BEV?
Brits Eye View is the personal blog of a 69 year old Englishman - Steve Teale, started in January 2003. It's currently about life in Arusha (Tanzania), and previously in Bangalore, Manhattan, and the Bronx. It deals with life in general, building a house, food and drink, computer programming, opinion on current affairs, 20th century history, and so on. It may give you some insight into what life is like in 'the third world', or encourage you to visit Tanzania.
I started playing with it in January 2003, when I was living in Manhattan. At the time I felt I was going nowhere, and exposing the details of my life could be no worse than not. Almost immediately I changed partners, and quickly recognized that while I might be prepared to live in a goldfish bowl, other's weren't.
The same year I lost my job - recession, exhausted my NY State unemployment benefits, and got a job in India. Consequently a large proportion of BEV was written in Bangalore. India was OK, but I could not see what I was going to do there when I retired.
This uncertainty was resolved when I met my current partner Adia in 2006. She was a Tanzanian, studying law in India, so I came Tanzania in 2007. Here we have built a house, and made new friends. The rest, you can read on BEV.
At about the same time I had the ridiculous idea of extending BEV backwards to cover the years 1942 to 2002. So far I have got to 1975. For the years 2003 - 2011, choose a year/month from the tool bar. For 1942 - 1975, choose a year.
Visiting Tanzania?
Adia's Place now has On-Line Booking. Please feel free to check it out. It may not be 100% yet, but if you get a confirmation email then it's a safe bet that we got your booking. In the short term we will re-confirm. If you have done all the usual tourist destinations, then make a leap and discover Africa! Come and visit Arusha, Tanzania. You might be able to stay at
- a great centre for safaris to the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Kilimanjaro, and of course our own pet volcano, Mount Meru.
Please feel free to contact us. We can tell you about hotels, facilities, prices of basics, etc.
We now have very pleasant bed and breakfast rooms available at $20 per night. The Old Cottage and the South House are also available for longer term visitors.
Studying in Arusha?
Some of the major study centres in Arusha are at Njiro. There, you'll find the Arusha Institute of Accountancy, ESAMI, and TRAPCA. If you are not happy with the accommodation there, you are only a 5 minute drive from - a secure haven of tranquillity with African food like your mother cooked for you. Price is competitive with the on-campus accommodation.
Just call Adia - 0762 442888 - and she'll come and get you and show you her place. You won't regret it!
This Month's Posts
If there's something particular you'd like to go back to, just click it here- 4/2/2012 - Enforced Break.
- 1/2/2012 - February.
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BEV Software Blog.
I've been working recently on D programming language interfaces to SQL database systems. This is very much work-in-progress, but you can read more about it on the software page. Source code is available at github. This work is currently on hold, since I am making furniture for our bedroom and there's only one of me.Moods of Meru.
Evening.
Random BEV Poem.
COMPO.
If you are a Linux user, you might want to try this piece of graphical design software I worked on last year. You can use it to design business cards, labels, logos for your web site, and things of that sort. You can download it from the BEV COMPO page, where you'll also find the documentation.BEV Partners.
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