Our porch has a glass-topped table. The weather has been so nice lately that we often eat lunch out there. (My office is an 8-minute walk from our apartment.)
I always wipe the top before we eat out there. The dirt on this rag was there after just two days. The air in Nairobi is notoriously dirty. It has a high percentage of diesel particulates. Our apartment is about 50 meters (yards) from a busy road, so we benefit from increased consumption of toxins.
(The rag is on top of the glass table.)
Nice blog.
ReplyDeleteI'm from Nairobi and I didn't realize just how dusty it is until I went back in 2006 after living in NY for a year. Diesel particulates? That sounds scary! But Nairobians survive, dust and all, so I figure it can't be THAT bad.
Sympathies sent to you from Kitale. We get cow fumes out here - and those sure 'nuf do stink but not like the diesel.
ReplyDeleteWow Paul...before you mentioned that the rag was on top of the glass table, I was about to think that you had somehow managed to get it to float mysteriously on top of the green bar in some kind of powerful reality-distortion field. Thanks! ;-)
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