The Gibsons online blog

You would think that wood should be a pretty strait forward thing to buy in most parts of the world.  Not so.  As work begins on getting the mission house ready to live in we have discovered that the termites have had quite a feast whilst the place has been empty.  The screen doors, it seems, have been a good meal to a number of these helpful little creatures.  Trying to find wood in Djibo has proved rather fruitless as I have hunted high and low for the stuff. Maybe the termites have bought it all up.  I guess I’ll be off down to Ouaga sooner than I anticipated.  Ho hum… welcome back to Burkina