I currently live in the basement of this house. You can see the bamboo in the back that is a haven for birds and the occasional deer. ~ moving on again deny, accept, search, decide packing and changing ~ Yes, it snowed yet again. This is definitely the most snow we’ve had in many years. […]

Moving On

• Trevor Ncube Has Discovered That Free Speech Is More Complicated When You’re the BossOctober 12, 2026
  Trevor Ncube has built his public standing on the case for a free press. Last month his own publishing company is reported by ZimLive to have gone to the High Court against 36 of its employees. ZimInd Publishers, which publishes NewsDay, The Standard and the Zimbabwe Independent, is claiming US$100,000 over statements it says were defamatory, in a summons dated September 25, ZimLive reports. The …
• Gweru Has a Sewer Problem. Naturally, the Residents Are on Trial.October 12, 2026
  On 9 October The Herald reported that Gweru City Council is battling sewer blockages it blames on residents flushing plastic bags, nappies, sanitary products and rags, with sewage spilling into homes and streets in Mkoba, Mtapa, Senga and Ascot. The council has the contents of its pipes right. Mayor Martin Chivhoko told councillors that crews had responded to more than 300 blockages in a single …
• Zimbabwean Government, A Forecast Is Not a Disaster PlanOctober 12, 2026
  Hurricane Isaias came ashore near Destin, Florida, United States, on Friday night last week as a Category 2 storm. Its winds were 105 mph at landfall. By early Saturday, more than 726,000 customers in Florida and Alabama had lost power, and some Panhandle counties had briefly suspended emergency response because conditions were too dangerous. Everyone saw this coming. Forecasters had warned of storm surge of …
• The Next Battlefield May Be the Data Centre Down the RoadOctober 11, 2026
  In the early hours of 8 October a drone set fire to a Yandex data centre in Sasovo, a town in Russia’s Ryazan region. Yandex told AFP that the facility had stopped operating entirely. The outage reached Yandex Cloud and the products built on it, such as Yandex Disk and Yandex Documents, and Yandex shares fell more than 3 percent on the Moscow Exchange. The …
• Cheap Fuel Is Expensive If It Comes With a Geopolitical BillOctober 10, 2026
  Washington has eased sanctions on Russian diesel, but has not said what it got in return. Diesel is expensive, American voters are noticing, and Vladimir Putin says he can help. On October 9, after a phone call with the Russian president, Donald Trump announced that Russia would supply diesel to American and global markets, more than 300,000 tonnes immediately and more in the months ahead. …
• Zimbabwe Wants the World’s Money But Hasn’t Earned the World’s TrustOctober 10, 2026
  The IMF has signed off on another review. Harare is celebrating the wrong number. Zimbabwe wants back into the international financial system, and on October 8 it got a small step closer. Several outlets reported that the International Monetary Fund had completed the second review of the country’s 10-month Staff-Monitored Programme. Expect the government to treat it as a victory. It is a progress report. …