RICHARD WALSH'S BLOG
Chief's Blog November 2010- Yams at dawn and floating grog
The rains have come, and with them a month of new growth and activity. This is the garden season in Fiji, the perfect time to tend and plant crops, to slash back and prune. Growth rates at this time are astonishing: everything can seemingly put on metres overnight.
Team Fiji and the Tribe have set to with a will, concentrating on the areas around the kitchen and grand bure which were becoming overgrown. Tui Mali invited Ian and myself to help with the planting of two yams, a staple of the Fijian diet. Standing in a dawn downpour behind …
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Chief Application November 2010
Richard Walsh
Why would I like to be chief?
I visited Vorovoro two years ago and fell in love with the place and the people. I couldn’t wait to come back. Now, finally, I’ve made it and I’d love to be involved with …
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Tags: Tribe / FijiV-Day: The first hours…
Well, it’s two weeks since I left the island, enough time to collect my experiences, shuffle them around like a game of Boggle and spout some half-coherent words.
Let’s start at the beginning. You arrive at Labasa. Not the world’s greatest town. It’s noisy, …
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