I’m going to be honest with you; I’m not an early morning person. I used to drive a lorry for a living, which meant I had to get up at 4am on a fairly regular basis but back then, I’d get a coffee, fall into the cab and set off. It’s a different thing when [...]

Slept like a log last night which surprised me. I normally get the jitters about little beasts, cockroaches and the like, coming into my room but after sitting up to 11 catching up on my iTunes listening, I realised I hadn’t even seen an ant. Sprayed my pillow with tropical inset spray anyway and dropped [...]

Sometimes you get days that seem to go on forever. Today has been one such day, partly to do with having to get up at 5:30am.  Paul called the airport to find out about his luggage and got no reply so we decided to go and see if the bags had arrived anyway. We spent [...]

I got a bit homesick last night. It doesn’t happen very often but sometimes I realize how far away I am and you think about what’s going on back home and, well, you know it starts a spiral of thoughts. So at 1am in Ethiopia I called home and it was all OK. Slept like [...]

I never thought that I’d come all the way to Africa to film a toilet. This morning I stood in a field filming two workmen putting the walls up around four pit latrines. I get all the good jobs you know. This really was a serious business though. One of the project that Addis Kadan [...]