Monday, Monday.

Back to work today. It felt good heading into the office with the sun beaming down and the temperature already at 29°C at 8am, and then being greeted by so many sunny smiles when I got there.

This trip isn’t all about me sharing my knowledge, it’s a two way thing. Today I learned how to create and use pivot tables in Microsoft Excel, something I’ve been meaning to learn for years. Now I know. Thank you Sem, my friend.

I was very kindly invited to supper last night by one of the Pro Vice Chancellor’s of the university. She lives 20 yards down the road from where I’m staying it was lovely to meet her family and to chat about all sorts. She and her husband had prepared a lovely meal, salad starter mostly made from things grown in their garden, followed by a delicious homemade bean soup and then a main course of lamb and angel fish.

From front left and going clockwise: Duncan, a Cardiff university researcher, yours truly, Ann, a data analyst wizard who is also on the International Learning Opportunity programme that I am on, Prof Judith Hall OBE, head of the Phoenix Project and Ambassador to Namibia, Werner, the PVCs husband, retired but was the National Archivist of Namibia, Dave, another Cardiff university researcher and the Prof Ellen Nhamila, PVC.