How is the Weather

Always great to hear and see news of things back home.

Firstly the weather. I hear from my sis and wife that you have snow. I tried to explain this to our cook this morning and we had a very difficult converstaion for a couple of minutes.

Here the weather is, as always  - 30 degrees and sunny. I would like to see your snow but I really quite like the warmth for now.

Although I had to walk a couple of miles in the heat this morning and could have done with it being a bit cooler. Today is community Saturday which they have once a month. So there are no taxis, and everything closes. Some people do community service – though more seem to just sit around and rest. Others play sports.

Here is the Rwandan under 15 cricket team, being coached by a young man from England. He coaches them for no salary, only expenses. They were playing on Friday at Kicukiro College when we met their Principle to get his advice on various matters. There present pitch is being redone, and so they were playing on baked earth instead. Good to see cricket is here.

Was talking to some Rwandans about the importance of sport, and that it is an essential component of youth development. Apparently the Rwandan Government is not prioritising this with significant finance. A real mistake, as Scotland found out when it dropped serious competitive sport from being central in Scottish schools in the 1980s.

Time for politicians to understand and action a change in our culture through sport. Unfortunately grass roots competitive sport is not supported by key elements of our society. What a loss!

Talking of sport, and home, I have been watching the results of the Edinburgh International, and delighted to see David Murdoch being beaten by Team Prentice. Shows that our loss to them in European semis was not too bad a result - even if we should have won!

Not sure I agree with Bob Cowan about them being old. I really think he needs to understand Macfarlanes Rule – under 65 young, 65 – 95 middle aged, over 95 old, unless you want to move the goal posts

Come on Bob, we are all young, its just that the really young ones think that we are old!