Roast chicken with some good friends

Roast chicken with some good friends must be one of the loveliest meals any one can have? Believe it or not there is a story behind this dinner. You see everybody you see in this photo is someone who either has lost their land or their business in the tragedy that is Zimbabwe. All of them decided to leave and to try and make a new beginning in a new land. Sometimes it's not the easiest thing to do, but decisions have to be made regarding your children or where to live out your twilight years. All of it in the end is sad because nearly everybody loves their country and to be forced out of something you have given a lifetimes work to, just isn't right. It's that simple and that complex.

Oh it's a funny old world all right, some people say it's a small world. The odd thing is that despite the younger looking couple being Maize seed and Rose growers and our children going to the same boarding schools both at junior and senior level. Now Zimbabwe isn't the largest place in the world and despite what I have said above. We never knew them. Yet we come to live in Ireland and somehow we meet up. Strange?

Entertaining guests back in Zimbabwe is a common occurrence, yet here in Ireland it doesn't happen very often. However with these people, because we think alike and because we love to reminisce about Africa we meet up now and again and rotate which house we have it in. This time it was our house and here is what we gave them for dinner.