On Friday, we headed for Mbala tobacco farm, just off the Zomba Road, 40 minutes from Blantyre. I spent the afternoon photographing the Malawi Junior Vaulting Team going through their paces. Vaulting is gymnastics on horseback and I have been involved with the team since we arrived in Malawi. Karen and Tamsin McGowan are managers, coaches, patrons and fundraisers for the team and it is their selfless committment that enabled poor Malawian children to compete on the international stage. After the photo session, sarah and I were invited to stay with Karen, her husband Ewan and daughter Kate at their beautiful hilltop house in the bush. On Saturday morning, Ewan and Karen headed to Lake Malawi for a friend's wedding. We had the house to ourselves. We read, ate, slept and rode our bicycles through the bush. It was an idyllic weekend.
On our return to our lovely house in Blantyre, we were greeted by the mayhem of drunken revellry coming form The Block; a house next door to us that has been converted to a commercial premises, serving food and drink to adults and entertainment to children. Basically, it's a pub in a house and the noise is making our lives a misery. There aren't any environmental controls here and you can't just ring the council! We have been looking for an alternative house for months. Today is the day. We are determined to get away from here.
At least it's sunny and it's the Lake of Stars music festival on Lake Malawi next weekend.
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