by Simon | Aug 22, 2020 | Biography
On most days of the year firewood is my cooking fuel. There is also a small electric oven for those wet days when the woodpile is rain soaked. However most days the sun shines and the wood is dry. Of course the cooking arrangements are a little more advanced than a...
by Simon | Jul 31, 2020 | Biography
Travelling across Paraguay and it does not take long before you leave the tarmac behind. The lines of tarmac tend to be the strings joining one town to the next. The web of roads linking all places in between is surfaced with dirt or occasionally cobbles. My home is...
by Simon | Jul 27, 2020 | Biography
The use of fire in a controlled fashion is an effective way of clearing ground for planting crops. The important word is controlled for without controls a fire will soon run wild. The stubble left from the previous planting along with grass and weeds that have...
by Simon | Jul 14, 2020 | Biography
As I headed out to Paraguay to join the English school in the countryside outside Piribebuy I knew the living quarters would not be plush custom built dormitories. One of the requested pieces of equipment was a tent. So I was neither surprised or concerned to find...
by Simon | Jul 12, 2020 | Biography
During the course of the English School we had a number of special events. These gave the children a break from week after week of English lessons. Additionally they gave them something exciting to keep their attention on the English School. One of these events was...
by Simon | Jul 5, 2020 | Biography
I had been living in Paraguay for several years before I finally got round to getting my possessions sent over from England. Until that time they had all been sitting boxed up in a Bedfordshire storage unit. Accordingly despite having first come to Paraguay as an...
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