Thursday 28 May 2009

Water



Another quick post while Ian is in the shower. Our living arrangements are quite basic but adequate. We have an airbed carefully balanced on two pallettes, a camping stove, a kitchen work surface consisting of a piece of hardboard (that will eventually go into the fabric of the house) on trestles, a washing bowl and porta-potty. What we don't have is running water to the house. This morning I was thinking about what a chore it was to collect water from the tap and walk 50 metres to the house when I thought about people without water where the women walk 4 miles a day to collect their water and carry it back on their heads! What weak feeble people we are here in the West.


Added later: Here are some pictures of our 'kitchen'





and 'bedroom'




3 comments:

Simon said...

Surprising how quickly one can adjust to relatively primitive conditions. After moving, we had three weeks without a flushing toilet. Mind you, I do now relish that simple button push, compared to the slog of collecting a bucket of water each time. It's good not to take such things for granted!

Michael House said...

plenty of bottles in the kitchen i see!

Lovely's Blot said...

Yes but mostly presents for others!

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