The day begins with the sighting of a bird I have not seen before. It is a plum coloured starling. What a beautiful bird it is and I make a mental note to mention the sighting at the next gathering of tweeters and twitterers and general gardening people. I can't wait to see their reaction.
On my way into town, I am nearly involved in an accident at the traffic lights. When the lights are not working, chaos reigns. The rule of giving way to the right is generally not adhered to; whoever can make their way across the intersection without bashing into someone else or being bashed into by someone else is the 'victor'. Some cars do not even slow down; they just shoot through with their hazard lights on as this obviously makes one quite invincible. I have already entered the intersection when a car speeds through from the left, narrowly missing us. The driver looks at me as though he can't understand what I am making all the fuss about when I blast him with the hooter. To observe people's behaviour at times like these is to view a social experiment: how people react when there are no rules or regulations. What so many people fail to realise is how, through their impatience and total disregard for others, they actually make their own journeys longer and more complicated.
In the evening, we have our film night again. This time we watch Vita and Virginia, a film that documents the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. We have a visitor, someone who lived in the house before us. He is now living in Nigeria and describes how limiting and claustrophobic it is to live in an expat compound. He misses the ease of Zimbabwean life.
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