arpinoon ol man and mari!

Guess who's back in PNG?

Yup.

Got me a 3 year gig up here. And now, I am working on social media solutions for small business, as well as looking at ways to export spice back into OZ, so I'll have MUCH more time to hang out here!!

So lukim yu from the land of:

 

cassia bark, rambutans and mangosteens. Total cost? about $2.00 at the local market.

There is something about this place. It's certainly not for the faint-hearted. Particularly if you're a woman. But once you get past the dust and the buai spitting, it's one of the most beautiful places on earth. The mountains are like nothing we've got back home, they're huge! As a friend said "who looked at those peaks and thought it would be a good idea to walk across them and invade Australia?"

My days are filled with breakfast at the Yacht club, watching the locals in dug-outs and banana boats head in and out, doing laps of the pool while my mari (housemaid) cleans, supervising the gardener who's putting in my herb and fruit garden. So far we've planted lemongrass, chilli, a mango tree and two banana trees. Hopefully my vanilla  vine will go in next week.

A weeks worth of fruit and veg can be picked up from the market for less than $10AUD, I got excited today, because we got new razor- wire, I had home made Singapore chilli mud crab and French champagne on my birthday, and Friday night I had the most amazing all-you-can-eat seafood buffet at the Lae International for about $27 AUD a head.

I'm home

I have solved the world's energy crisis!

Yup. Little old me. Did it by observing a fact only known to an esoteric group of people within a sub-strata of the community.

Mother's of teen aged boys.

Here's how my research developed.

Last Wednesday we received our usual delivery of goodies from Aussie Farmers Direct. It included some bananas, some green apples. some red apples, some oranges, some pears, a bag of red grapes, some kiwi fruit as well as a whole passel of veggies.

On Thursday night, Lima Bean was over. On Friday night, Els was over.

I watched in amazement as these two teen boys defied scientific debate and actually converted the molecules of fruit and transported them vis some unknown process that has to do with the peculiar smell of teen boy's socks, and the rampaging hormones.

Note: 2 teen aged boys can ingest a bowl of fruit, simply by passing it, in the kitchen.

When I asked Lima if he had eaten all 4 bananas, he replies "I dunno".

And Ells and the oranges... "I dunno"

I went out to our local orchard and got a further 2kg bag of Pink Lady's, some pears and a few more bananas.

All gone within an hour of being placed in the fruit bowl.

And when the fruit did not magically re-appear again, I was hounded into handing over some cash, as the boys were "hungry".

Now, if only I can get them to transport their siblings to and from sport, and their mother to work, and get them to use their powers to spin the washing machine and "beam me up" to a Greek island, I'll be able to retire and live the life of Riley!

Just remember, when science discovers a causal link between teen aged boys and that transporter thingy in Star trek, you heard it here first.