News and stuff from Botswana
Ever noticed how your sausage looks so full and glossy in the shop, but by the time you’re done cooking it’s all dry and shrivelled?
With nothing better to do at home I’ve been weighing my sausage boerewors before and after cooking it and recording the results. It’s by no means scientific, but it does give you an idea of how much meat, fat and water is in your sausage. Continue reading “What’s wors?”
I started running back in 2010, with a pair of Reeboks but they weren’t really suited to the Maun sand and gravel – more of a gym shoe. Sadly most “sports” shops in Maun and Francistown only sell fashionable sports shoes (hello, JB Sports), and Cape Union Mart seem to flog only over-designed, over-priced, gaudy Salomon shoes.
This is a gripping tale of brand loyalty, internet shopping and, unexpectedly, obsessive colour matching. Continue reading “The Asics”
As temperatures drop into low single figures it’s time for warming food, and this is a good one, served with a rather nice Robertson Winery Merlot.
My Facebook and Twitter feeds have been buzzing with confusion for the last couple of weeks since Botswana Power Corporation announced a new scheme to reduce power usage.
Load-shedding has been a fact of life in Botswana for years now, and recent announcements about a new scheme known as Demand Side Management have led to lots of noise across social media, mainly from people enquiring how to calculate their power consumption so they don’t get cut off.
With this post I hope to clarify some of the confusion and help people be better informed, you might even save money when you review what is using power in your house. Continue reading “Botswana Electricity – Load Shedding and Demand Side Management”
