Saturday 15 May 2010

power cuts are coming to Pèdè ...


... say the cynical among us! But in between the cuts, we might even get mains electricity. It has been promised for a long time, but now look - the holes have been dug, and the poles are by the road. Admittedly not yet the right way up ... but they make useful benches in the meantime I noticed this morning!
A pole not currently being used either to carry electricity or as a bench...






Wednesday 5 May 2010

fresh and green






Last Monday we left Pèdè with the countryside around looking like this:

As you can see, the trees were green, but the ground was still very dry and brown. A couple of rains had done nothing to change that.
We arrived the same day in Parakou, 200km south, to find it looking like this:




Rainy season arrives, and works its renewing magic, earlier there than up North!

The day after we got back we experienced this: (This should be a video file showing the rain, but I'm not sure if it will work in this format.)





And here is Simon looking at the immediate consequences - you can tell by his clothing that the temperature hasn't gone down much!