Daily Archive for April 12th, 2008

Man selling untested meat

It was bright sunshine and I was just sweeping within my compound while my wife was preparing breakfast. After breakfast I was planning to go to the market buying relish. A mobile butcher brought with him a goat meat. My wife called him and he negotiated to my home. I was inside my house and she called me to see if it was real fresh meat and of good quality. “It is nice and fresh that you can enjoy if you buy me and you shall not regret. It is affordable” the butcher persuaded me to buy. “Is your meat tested by specialist or a veterinary officer?” I asked that mobile butcher. “No it is mine there is no need of consulting someone else to have my goat meat tested” he answered. I urged him to stop selling locally his meat within Chinangwa village though it was cheaper than at the market. I advised my wife not to buy locally sold meat because it is always disease untested or die of some contagious diseases and then sold it, which is hazardous to peoples’ lives. At around 7:40am, my friend got me home. He asked me to escort him at the market on his bicycle. I also told him that I was lacking a means of transport to buy relish at the market.

Watching football match.
Soon after knocking off from he work being half day I left home for lunch. I found my wife with her friend just chatting. “Is here any food to take? Because I want to leave for Mthumba Primary School to watch football match between Chinangwa FC and Chikalumpha FC” I asked my wife. “I have already prepared it , let me just take it for you” she answered. Soon after taking that lunch I went to my friend’s house to take me on his bicycle to Mthumba because mine was not in good condition. The match kicked off at 3pm. It was a good game, which we enjoyed watching. It ended 4-3 in favor of Chikalumpha. “Why is our team nowadays just loosing whenever we meet teams which we had been defeating?” my friend Alfred asked me while cycling back home. “Don’t you wonder it is because our team has got no football that players can keep on training when preparing matches” I told Alfred. “You are quite right friend” he commented. He asked me as a team manager to find ways how we can source funds to buy one or two footballs.

Supper with vegetables. Nsima is only our staple food especially Southern part of Malawi. Late evening my wife told me that there were only vegetables as relish. I told her to cook nsima for we could not do otherwise. It nice supper because she added some groundnuts to vegetables as a means of increasing flavor.