Legal Weed: 5 Types of weed that are completely legal.

Mũnge’i

This is practically what I fed by rabbits everyday, after fighting off the sheep that would start pulling the pile from under my armpits, I’d stagger to the hatches and pack up these weeds. We discovered they are edible later in life. Mũng’ei is soft, and better mixed with the following four. If you have heart burns and acid influx, chew some of this too, the juice is as good as any anti acid.

Mũhehenje

If on a Sunday afternoon, you have ever walked through a maize farm that has not been weeded, wearing your viscose cotton dress, perhaps to pick some green maize to roast by the fire, you know this weed. And you know if that was not your favorite dress you might have set it on fire that same day. The seeds have a way of dispersing themselves by attaching them to Sunday wear.

Mũhehenje or mũcege has a strong aroma so, use only a few leaves. I am told it can used in place of tea leaves too. Will try in August.

Togotia.

In January, there are few green leaves to be got, but this weed survives it all. So we would feed it to the rabbits. You can use it in mashed food too. It’s texture is like pumpkin leaves, so you know you’ve got to mix it with something lighter.

Mũriaria/ mũthũnga,

Mũriaria means, it secrets milk. And this is rabbit’s favourite dinner. But if you are in Malindi, you will see it being sold in bunches next to spinach. It is a little bit bitter, but they tell me it prevents malaria and is high in magnesium.

Mũkengeria.

I had to eat this one to believe you could it without poisonig yourself. I know cows love it. It doesn’t have a distinct taste, but I was told it is rich in iron.

There is more than one way to make a maize meal go down as you can see.

5 ways to wear a bowtie and look like these really cool celebs

When I started thinking about this post, I met this boy that looked real cool in a green and black bowtie, but my brain only processed the idea of asking for a picture after he had passed me, but below is a list of my favourite bowtie wearing celebs. Enjoy...

1.Pharrell Williams

You guessed it, no one does it better. You all know this guy..at least my crush on him is now gone after I saw a picture of his wife,,,phew!

I like his music, but most of the time I'm just checking out his clothes.

2. Jay Chou

Just one of the hottest Asian musicians alive. Check out his song here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B8RaLCNUZw (he sings in swahili..tii mama na baba,usijifunze ubaya,,then he says mo fire...).
There was another picture of him in a proper bowtie, but not as goodlooking as this one.

3. Jonny Depp

I love this guy, someone I wouldn't mind hanging out with, so had to google him in a bowtie and He had to make the list some how.


4. Richard Gere

My best man ever since Pretty Woman.

5. Jon Bon Jovi

He is a very handsome man. That's all I'm gonna say.

so, that's it, but I also like coloful ones.

5 ways to keep your feet free of athlete’s foot this cold season.

If you are a man, do you wash your feet or does the water in your karai get finished before you get to the ankles?

If you are a woman, do you really wash between your feet every time you take a bath?

If your answer is, ‘sometimes’. Then you have probably had to suffer two weeks of fungal infection between your toes.

Your feet smell too, a mix between bread dough and a cow shed. Quite an unpleasant state of affairs that we want to try fix especially with the cold season setting off in such unpredictable weather.

1. Wash your feet.
   
   

You will need;

• Clean warm water,
• A pumice stone. I use the black variety.
• A srubber, you can cut off a piece of gunia and burn the sides to stop it from running.
• Soap, and water to rinse.

Scrub every part of the foot, use the pumice stone for the bottom, then rinse.

2. Dry your feet.

If you only dry your body and let the feet dry as you go, you need to make serious lifestyle changes. Get a special towel for your feet. Feet are feet, so unless you are a clean freak, get a darker color so you don’t have to wash it every day.

3. Avoid infection

Wear the right shoes for the right ground. It beats common sense to wear open shoes in wet weather.

• Wear the right size of closed shoes to avoid too much sweating.
• Wear cotton socks to absorb moisture.
• Don’t walk on bare feet in public bathrooms.
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4. TLC for feet- Foot baths
   
   

• Throw in a tea bag in warm water and soak your feet for 10 minutes. Tea has components that can reduce the possibility of athlete’s foot.
• Lemon. Pour in the juice of two lemons in your foot bath and soak for 10 minutes. Lemon has essential oils that leave you feel feeling soft and fresh by balancing out the bacteria levels between the toes.

• Vinegar bath. Apple Cider Vinegar or white vinegar will work just fine.

5.  Get rid of bad habits

• Change cutex regularly, and wash your feet before applying a new coat.
• Wear a clean pair of socks every time.
• Trim your toe nails often, a straight clip is best.
  

• Clean inside your shoes when you come home and let them dry before using them again.

5 ways blog to keep away SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)

I am on a personal challenge to blog about things that pass through my mind as I go along. Cold months are not my most productive months. But I gotta keep my mind active otherwise the winter blues might take over. I came up with 15 categories.

food

travel

pop-culture

entertainment

technology

human interest

household

literary

sports

General knowledge

Fashion

African fashion

Animals

Personal growth

Arts

I have managed to come up with 75 possible blog entries. Look out for topics like in technology 5 photographers you should meet.

In human interest, 5 arguments you have probably had with someone this week

In Health and fitness (this I just added, it was in human interest) 5 work-out songs to get you moving regardless of your age.

In pop-culture you will find, 5 colors you never thought could do for your wall.

If there is anything unique you do, you could get featured too in the 5 rare people section, so let me know what it is you do best- 5 honest tailors,  short girls who don’t wear high, heels.

Finding God: But, God is not like a father…

“At least not to me,” I say to myself, going over the printed text again.

-God is like a loving father ready to hold our hand whenever there is trouble-

“Yeah right.”

I don’t get it, I cannot understand this. How can God be like A father, or any human? I refuse to accept it.

BUT, I want us to get to the part where it says God hears the prayers of those that pray from the heart. I want to learn to say a real prayer without mixing it with my imagination and half created stories. And I want to tell God I know he heard my vernacular prayers, long long ago before I could pray in English.

So I nod and say “yes, God is like a caring father” and blah blah , but I’m only saying what I’ve heard people say and the photograph on the page does paint a picture of how a father should behave..

But I have a loud question in my mind.

Why can’t we just say. God is wise, and clever, and kind. Like your best friend, and always ready to pick out thorns out of your foot like the grown up relative who wonders why you’ve been limping for a week and decides to get you out of the misery.

If it said, -think of a nice person, now that is how God is like- I would get it right away.

But here it says- He is like a father-

This will take a while.

So let us find this father and get a comparison. And of course the father doesn’t want to father a grown up, and something about having had sex with your mother a million years ago which doesn’t qualify him for such a title that I am seeking..

God will have to wait.

Until the clods of blood from my internal wounds find a way out, else we’re done for good, and I’m off to North East Germany, or somewhere..

But I meet a girl that makes room in her wardrobe for my clothes and says – you are welcome to stay- but I am not ready for that kind of benevolence so I escape.

Then an old man, not known to me a month before, he exchanges my indo-mee for high quality bean noodles and gives me a pork recipe. And I stop being so frightened and cold..

Soon I am surrounded by people that don’t care that my teeth are the color of my skin and I have an accent.

“God is greater than our hearts and knows all things” she showed me the text when I began to fidget.

-God is greater than our hearts and knows all things- That is reasonable enough.

He knows I cannot call him father.

But he knows I know exactly who is.

I see him, his image in those that choose to wear it. God is like a father, true. A father that really loves his children. Not just, any father. But to me, he is:

My friend, My God. And we are cool.

What do content writers do?

Every organisation relies on brand popularity to know if it is a success or a failed venture. In order to stay in the game, an organisation needs to be in touch with its target audience.

This is the digital information era and new as well as well- established ventures are starting to find out just how important the internet is for their well being. That is in terms of marketing, selling and passing information. That all this can now be exclusively confined to the internet and have a business running successfully is no longer unusual.

Just as one would be mistaken to dispute that this digital multitasking age is a passing fad, it would be wrong to assume that web content can be provided, managed and monitored by just anybody in the organization.

A person might know everything there is to know about a company, but be incapable of online content presentation.

 An example: A company’s communication person decides to copy paste what appears on their newsletter to the “Home” page of their site. About 5, 000 word count.

Humh..Seriously, who has the time to scroll?

Web content is not print journalism. 

Have you noticed how newspapers present their online news? My point exactly.

When you think of Web content, think of a marketing campaign. Less  words, more visuals. Newspapers understood this early enough.

Then there is this big word that we content managers will throw at you just  to see if you know what you are paying for; Search Engine Optimisation ( S.E.O).

What this entails is, there is a way content for the web should be presented. And this is not just about grammar and punctuation.

"mango breakfast''

When you search “breakfast” on images, what do you expect to find? Anything, coz we all eat lots of things for breakfast, including coke and kangumu and that is an individual choice. But if you search breakfast+mango. You might get something close to this. A search engine will sift through all the teas and coffees, mueslis and kway teo and find something with mango in it.

Articles for the web need to be succinct enough so they can come up easily on search engines. See this article(http://goo.gl/DZd40z). Repetitive? That is one method of S.E.O.  Check out this article (http://goo.gl/g5QJPc.) For this one I used links as well as keywords, so far it has received 77views, a lot for a very low key blog like this one.

In summary what do content writers do?

1. We combine text and visuals to create short, fun articles for you website.
2. We optimize articles so your website does not come on page 16 in a search engine.

 I re-wrote this

Socializing the introvert- Claustrophobia

I have always loved small spaces, like John from Ally Macbeal, I need a hole where I can crawl in to get away from the rest of the world.

When my little cousins came to live with us, I looked for a bed sheet and draped it across the room to separate-MY side from HER side. In high school; my aunt, her child and nanny moved into the same bedroom. To me, I had been kicked out, there was no room for me.

Uncle cleaned out a store room and said we might use it as an extra room. I found a mattress and relocated right away, but he said the room could fit two beds. I put a padlock at the door.

Mean, right?

And selfish too

But I can explain.

I need space and not in the true sense of the word. I could be in a big room with only one other person but it still feels crowded, especially if the other person loves the sound of his voice.

When there is two of us in a room, this is how the space is shared out.

And I cannot write, think or pray when other people or other person is too close.

I will

Either have to leave the room

Start talking non-stop

Walk about doing nothing in particular, just collecting lint from the atmosphere

Or sit cross legged and read a single page for two hours

The discomfiture of seeing boundary lines puts me right in a tense mood

But I realise I might be claustrophobic and this can happen anywhere.

A few years back I was living near a bunch of people who needed people about them for them to think. They would be very offended that I turned down yet another cook- out that week.

We later became inseparable but there was always the question they could not get round, ‘why did I like to be so lonely?’ and made efforts to have my house warmed by guests at every opportunity, and I resented it and became quite cold towards them.

Many times I could have burrowed into the floor for privacy.

I would not have minded another two cats or five, but people around meant

I had to be on all the time.

On deeper thought, it might be genetic. My mother is happy in her own company. While uncle spend, 95% of his waking hours , I mean 97%.

He spends it inside the napier grass plantation and only comes out when the moorland is clear.

Granny, on the other hand loved crowds before ALZ hit. She was a public speaker and a good percentage of the families take after her. There might be a psychological explanation to this.

I’ll know some day

Meanwhile, I try to go against this by inviting people to hang out with me against my inner will.

It turns out well most of the time.

I get soaking with people-talk and have little time to think. How did I do? How did it go. One of my mother’s sisters understood me and kept me supplied with newspapers, magazines and reader’s digests and told people to leave me alone. But she died.

So really, these are my first steps at human interaction. I’ll get there.

(ONLY one sketch belongs to me. the rest are borrowed thank you very much)