The Graduate

Congratulations and mazeltov Rob. We are really proud of you.

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Victoria Falls

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Zimkids and The Center

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Bulawayo in pictures

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Bulawayo

I am having a ball here in Bulawayo. The weather has been fantastic and I've been really busy with all my friends. I have also visited the ZimKids center and it's really wonderful to see how they are moving along with the construction. We also got to see the kids during their activities. I made my rounds to the different hospitals and am hoping we will be able to ship the supplies out soon from Baltimore.

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Count Louis Skippy-Harding

I know it's kind of late but this is how to create your very own Royal name. I used mine at the wedding.

1. Choose Count, Lord, Viscount II, etc. etc.

2. Choose a grand parents first name.

3. Choose your first pets name.

3. Choose the name of the first street you ever lived on.

4. Feminize or hyphen your surnames as appropriate.

 

Mine is:

 

Count Louis Skippy-Harding

 

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Awesome news

The world is rid of one of the most awful heads of a very ugly Medusa. Good riddance. But there are still many heads to remove. Well done CIA and SF.

 

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Back in Bulawayo

My welcome back to Bulawayo was fantastic up to a point. I will elaborate later.

Ilan and Silvi picked me up at the airport. After temporarily losing 2 of my bags of medical supplies to Zimbabwe customs we went to Silvi's house to watch the hugely important football (soccer) game between Man United and Arsenal. I say temporarily because I am sure I will be able to recover the supplies and take then to the appropriate medical facilities. As far as the football game is concerned, we lost 1-0. It makes for winning the Premiership a little more difficult and losing to Arsenhole is painful enough.

David and Shelley Lasker had a braai(barbecue) dinner for all of us in the evening. As usual it was a wonderful meal and great chatting and catching up with a bunch of my Bulawayo friends. Also there were Dennis (of ZimKids fame) and his wife Elli.

Had a good nights sleep at Ilan’s home until he woke me up at 6:30 am to tell me that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. What a fantastic wake up call that was. Obama 1 Osama 0. Good riddance.

Now, I don’t know if any of you remember the dead bat picture. It was from a while back and it was Ilan’s cats that had killed and dismembered the bat and left me the gift next to my bed. Well, their welcome this time was to bring in a live field mouse, proceed to play with it for a while and then kill and eat it ! Yuch, but I do have pictures. Quite prophetic though. Rat killed in Abbotabad and mouse killed in Bulawayo !

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Call me Grace

Here is how my trip started out at Washington Dulles Airport. "Grace"fully falling over backwards on an up escalator thanks to my 2 heavy bags and a backpack. Two good Samaritans were able to put me right side up with no damage done. It must have looked like a bad Monty Python skit.

So now I'm in London sitting in the lounge contemplating what to do for a number of hours as I wait for my connection to Johannesburg. I thought about going to the wedding but realized it was yesterday. Must have been that fall !

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I'm off

No, not like bad fruit or vegetables ! I leave for Zimgabe tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to seeing the construction progress at the ZimKids Center. Also, hanging with my "china's" and doing the African bush thing. After 14 days of recharging my batteries in Zim and Cape Town it's back to the USA for our daughter Robyn's graduation.

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