Dress codes

For years i have struggled and fought against this constant skirt wearing thing....i mean i have to do everything in this skirt! Walking, cycling (which i gave up because of health and safety issues!), painting, climbing and even swimming!

but today i see clearly why it is so important to adhere to the dress code of rurual Africa....and it all came about quite sudden too....

I was alone on the building site with the workers, happily painting away - the boys went to haul sand - and as the one worker closed the tin, the paint, that "shouldn't go into eyes", did! A beautiful green streak in his brown eye!! Yikes!

Crisis controller that i am, i quickly searched the room for a cloth of some kind - preferably cotton and clean...well there was none....except ....my own T-shirt! So what do you do? You grab the end and wipe the paint out, of course!

Yesterday it was my youngest with blue-green paint in his eye and up went the skirt seam and out went the paint! Very handy!! haha So, even if it irks me to always were the thing it CAN be handy in emergencies!

But a kind warning - when painting or when anticipating emergencies - wear the longest possible skirt and T-shirt! :)