Alice's Blog

So, our time in Ghana is up! We have had a great time here, with the predictable ups and downs, and I am left wondering exactly what the...

So, what have I been doing while the kids are at school? Well living in Ghana is all a bit more complicated and time consuming than...

So far in my blogs, I have spoken quite a bit about how the Ghanaians approach to life seems to promote mental resilience. But I can’t...

I am frequently told that by coming here I am giving the boys an opportunity to see how the other half live. Maybe I am being...

One of the fascinating things about our life here is seeing the boys come to terms with communal living. James and Martha's house is...

We have had a couple of really thrilling close encounters that have become real highlights to the boy’s time in Ghana so far....

Our mornings start at 6.30am, with some sort of tom tom drum ringtone that Toby has put on my phone as an alarm. Breakfast is cereal with...

Last weekend we went to a festival in the village of Samne, just outside Langbinsi. The festival happens across the Muslim North,...

Traditions still holds sway here, and custom demands that you must visit the chief of any community you visit, to introduce yourself....

The boy’s dreams have finally come true! Their two ambitions on coming to Ghana were firstly, to get their machete licence, (which Toby...

So, I finally managed to shoehorn the boys away from the delights of Kumasi, and we set off for the big drive North. The first obstacle...

So as previously mentioned, I am off on my sabbatical with Toby and Mikey over the next 10 months. Stage one is Africa, starting in...