Fleas!

Wednesday 19th March

No plumber! Now don’t have hot water, tap water or flushing toilet (never had the latter but still). Plus the bathroom doesn’t smell too nice. Whatever the plumber did has just made matters worse.

I have discovered the source of my discomfort. I rang another NGO tonight to ask if she knew where I might get hold of some mosquito repellent having severely depleted my resources. She was very kind but did laugh! I don’t have mosquito bites, I have fleas!!!!!!!!!!! Oh gross!!!!!!!

The one thing of course nobody was about to tell me. I couldn’t work this one out. I don’t have any animals and stay well away from them.. G explained that fleas in Africa live in and on clothes and furniture, that I would have picked them up during ‘line taxi’ trips and general contact. Phew, glad that one’s sorted out. I was beginning to feel that I could not sit outside or have a window open. Now I can. Fleas can be a nuisance but they’re not going to inflict unpleasant illnesses.