Deep

I am travelling to Masasi in southern Tanzania for a few days. As we don’t want to complete the journey in the dark, we are staying over in Lindi on the coast. As lindo and linda mean beautiful in Portuguese, chat about the town of Lindi always warms my cockles. In Swahili it means ‘deep’.

A few months ago Lindi Region suffered from an outbreak of anthrax in which around a dozen people died. And in the bin of the basic guesthouse where we are bedding down for the night, is one used condom and on the bed are various hairs. Safe to say the room was used as a temporary pitstop during the afternoon. Lindi is not selling itself well.

Meanwhile in the UK Boris Johnson is hosting a press conference and sharing his tips on saving energy during this unprecedented cost of living crisis. If you replace your kettle with a more energy-saving model costing £20 you can save up to £10 per year on energy bills. Unbelievably clueless and totally cretinous during a crisis in which people are facing hikes of thousands of pounds.

I don’t know which of Lindi bed hairs or UK political crisis is worse to be in. I think I’ll take the bed hairs over a gaslighting government and incoming Prime Minister Truss who John Crace has correctly described as an ‘intellect and charisma free zone’.