Steve Quits VSO Shock!
Feb 1997 Dear Diary, It is nearly that celebrated time, when I become an ex-VSO. So it must also be that celebrated time when I look back, and try to make sense of it all… …
Month: December 2025
Dread Locks
Jan 1997 Dear Diary, In January, I went to the hairdressers, for a new hair-cut…(Yep! That’s ALL this newsletter is about, really!) Dear Mum “DEAR MUM, I had a hair cut, the other day. …
An Eventful Last December
Dec 1996 Dear Diary, December was an eventful month: I taught my last UNIX course, I had my first bout of Malaria; and as for Christmas day, well… Dreaming? (Or did I actually …
Party Party!
Nov 1996 Dear Diary, This month I returned to Zomba, with Caro-Anne, to savour the splendour of being “lost and alone” on the Plateau. (And there was a bit of a birthday bash too!)… …
The Four Stories
Oct 1996 Dear Diary, This month’s newsletter is about a weekend I spent at Cape Maclear (Mangochi) with Caro-Anne and Kay. It’s about the intimidation (and ugliness) of the strong and the self-destruction (and ugliness) …
Wild Women (of Mangochi)
Aug 1996 Dear Diary, I enjoyed a surfeit of female company, this month, but received bad news in the post! ?@’! Statements! …I OPENED my parcel excitedly. I don’t know why I opened it …
Five Weekends
Aug 1996 Dear Diary, After the paint-drying excitement of July’s news-letter, I’ve decided to return to tall tales of elephant-wrestling, and other such weekend fun. This is all about how I spent my August weekends …
Quiet Times
July 1996 Dear Diary, It’s not all exotic African adventures, I’ll have you know. Life here can be quiet, sometimes isolated, even dull. So to illustrate my point, read all about those quiet times …
Ha Ha Ha Harare!
June 1996 Dear Diary, To Malawians, Harare is like the promised land: sky-scrapers with neon Coca-Cola signs; wide city streets, filled with shiny new cars; restaurants, cinemas, bars (and not bottle stores)… After a year …
Football! Football! Football!
May 1996 Dear Diary, Did I tell you about the day I played 5 hours of football, non-stop? Did I tell you how we came back from 7-1 down to win 8-7? Or what about …