Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Sitting on the shelf in my studio are four stamp albums. Three of them belonged to my Dad and the other belongs to Helen. He gave her these albums and I have them all for safekeeping. The post’s called loose leaves because in Dad’s ‘swops and to be included’ album are a few Kenyan stamps... Continue Reading →
Last night we had a small cocktail event on the lawns of the RCMRD centre, Nairobi. It had been a long, but very interesting, opening day listening to each of the students in the MyCOE/SERVIR programme for East Africa presenting their research proposals. Here are a few pictures from my phone of new colleagues relaxing as the... Continue Reading →
As I sit here working steadily through the end of year marking there is a carrot dangling ahead. I will travel to Nairobi soon to attend the MyCOE/SERVIR Fellowship workshop as mentor for one of our students, Natalie Ellis, to take part in a remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems training initiative. Here's the press... Continue Reading →
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