I need a bottle opener.

Friday, 6^th May 2011.   Today I really missed home. Usually on a Friday afternoon, my good friend Louise & I meet up with our two little boys and sometimes some other mums & babes too, at a very child oriented spot for a play date and our regular Friday afternoon tea of wine and lemon meringue cake. Her boy Liam is 6 weeks older than Evan, and they have been besties since they were born – whether they like it or not! So this Friday, being my first in Nairobi, was a little sad as it made me think about what I’ve left behind in Jo’burg and how much I still have to achieve here in Nairobi … making new friends being very high on that list!

Melancholy aside, I did go back to the supermarket today & had the driver wait rather than trolley push for me. Progress. Checked out all the stuff on offer and generally found everything I was looking for is available here, with the exception of fish fingers. And there are some fruit & veg I’ve never seen or heard of before – will have to google the names, find out more and try them out I think.

Something very unusual is that the margarine is not found in the fridge – it is packed in the normal shelves. And if you do put it in the fridge it goes unusably hard – it’s manufactured to live in a cupboard or whatever. Makes you wonder what is in it, doesn’t it? Tastes okay though.

Mark got home fairly early today and cooked us a delicious dinner of ‘chops chutney’ with paratha. I was so looking forward to having a glass or two of a very lovely bottle of red we have,  but of course, we don’t have a bottle opener! So I settled for a Corona instead.

Looking forward to a family weekend (Mark isn’t even playing golf) and spending some more time getting to know our new neighborhood together.

Happy weekend everyone!