Solomon sojourn

Digby has now been in the Solomon Islands for three weeks as part of an Ausaid project to improve the availability and quality of fruit in the local markets. He will be running workshops throughout the country in fruit tree propagation and introducing new species and varieties of appropriate fruit trees. This note gives an idea of current events. "I'm sitting at the bar in Gizo hotel looking out into the bay. Thunder rolling on Kolombangara island, rain just setting in for the evening. Been two weeks now getting set for the training with visits to farmers and research stations and tomorrow it should all come together in the first workshop. Agriculture people, staff and farmers appearing around the town with lots of chatter between wantoks (one talks, people from same language groups). English, pidgin and home language all mixing freely.My personal tension rising, but solbrew is light enough to calm". Digby