Sacrifice

Today I overheard someone playing what sounded like James Blunt doing a cover of Sacrifice. Odd. But I did like it. One of those moments when you realise you haven’t listened to any music for at least a good week or so.

Much drama here around the installation of some radio antennae on peaks in Chimanimani National Park, to increase coverage and enable better communications. A South African contractor is here who is highly skilled in the technical aspects of the job, but not in the ‘cultural competence’ that’s essential for people to work successfully away from their home culture (whatever that means). We had to facilitate a payment negotiation between him and some seasonal staff he wanted to help lug stuff on the mountain. He wasn’t good at seeing when someone clearly didn’t understand him or South African slang delivered as fast as machine gun fire. After a couple of hours we resolved the situation and practicalities of getting the radio repeater installed, and parties appeared to be satisfied.

For more tranquillity, here are some beehives in woodland in the Park’s buffer zone. Some producers are increasing incomes well through harvesting of honey in these productive tracts of land.