The sign says: It is three weeks that this glass is here on the ground. I don't know who has the job of removing it ... If you leave a broom near here, I will clean it, if whoever ought to do it doesn't come. That may be a smiley too. It went up on Wednesday, but I didn't have my camera. I sna...
Which is doubtless why I found this tomato amusing. I’ll get over it.
For three days now thunder has rumbled around Rome, always on the horizon, promising much, delivering nothing. Until now. I was hoping for the best, and hoping too that the old umbrella voodoo 1 would not be effective. And I was right. We were down on the flatlands, the dog and I, when big fat dro...
One of the big problems facing the improvement of agriculture in poor areas is that governments and aid donors have cut back on their support for extension systems. Extension agents are people who transfer new ideas and approaches that have been shown to work to the farmers who might benefit from th...
Yesterday was not the longest day; it just felt that way. Meetings all day (and half the night), the ostensible purpose of which was to “eliminate hunger and achieve food security for all”. Right.
The representative of a government much in the news lately (and no, he wasn’t wearing a green balacla...
