Dirt and smoke

This is what my camera looked like when it came from Kenya. After a full service it is just as new. I got my new visa this morning without any further delays. The car is running again and the winter swells are cold and hard, but they can’t really harm my new wetsuit.
Everything fine again. All the more so because will find the latest episode of the Soccer for Life series later today on tv.dfb.de. Watch out for “After the war”, the story about Carole the Congolese goalkeeper, that I mentioned earlier in this blog. So far it is my favorite episode.
I myself won’t be able to watch it, as I am heading to Johannesburg for a 4-days assignment with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

A word for lighting the fireplace: So as not to catch cold while working at home yesterday, I again ignited a nice fire (The house I am living in, doesn’t have heating). In order to keep it up for a while I put on quite a few logs. Everything went fine, while I was working and listening to music with headphones until I saw those strange lights flashing in the window after an hour or so. First I ignored it, but at some stage I got suspicious and went to look. I was greeted by a complete fire brigade and a whole bunch of neighbours. This was when I learned that the chimney had been sealed by the owner of the house a long time ago which means that the fire’s smoke goes now to the neighbouring apartment instead of into the air. Without knowing I so smoked out my neighbours.

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