This is the picture that was framed for a present for Annette's Mum and DadIt was a real privilege to meet Annette's family and they really went to town to entertain us - wrapping a chicken in banana leaves and putting it on to steam at 7.00 am - by the time we sat down at 2.30 pm it was tender, sweet and delicious. Annette's dad grows three different kinds of bananas - green one's for steaming, small sweet one's for eating straight after being peeled, and a kind that is more bitter that is used for making beer which, by all accounts, is quite lethal. He also tends coffee 'trees' and he struggles when the international price for coffee goes down a lot. Annette's dad is also really worried about climate change - during this rainy season which 'officially' started in September, there's only been two good days of rain at his land - this was at the end of October.
Annette's Mum and Dad, for all that their life is hard work, still make sure that they take care of each other and indeed of several other children who have been abandoned.
Here are some photographs taken on the visit.
Here's the family group with Annette's Mum and Dad standing between Renate and Annette. Joshua is in the front with the red shirt and Joy is in Brenda's arms on the right of the picture (she's the eldest at home)
Annette's got the children dancing in a groups and then . . .
. . . all fall down!
Annette joins in the dancing with Joy and Joshua - not sure they were too keen though!
Renate admires a coffee tree
My mama .....miss u
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