Dr Mutley Moss 🍉

#3GoodThings - independent cafe - pot of tea 🫖 - bacon sandwich 🥪 🥓 #ThatsMyBreakfast 😋

#3GoodThings - lovely chat with @luckyerica3.bsky.social yesterday - the rains have started and the temperature has dropped to a simmer rather than boiling point - I can now get some use out of the wellies I bought with me

#3GoodThings - lovely video chat with a Bluesky friend - marvellous to see how they were - finally got my patient’s diabetes under control - may have found a companion for my return bus trip to Ngouedi

#3GoodThings - didn’t send the angry email… yet… - had a croissant and a coffee for breakfast (the patisserie in Congo is excellent) - learned my first words in Lingala and received a round of applause from the gardeners who were listening to my lesson

#3GoodThings - my first speech in French was well received yesterday at the theological conference - I was given gifts of fruit to take home with me - I’m back home with the dogs now 🐾🐾

#3GoodThings - mango and pancakes for dessert tonight 🥞 - I was paid in bananas today #PrivatePractice 🍌 - now quietly confident that the unidentifiable mushrooms in yesterday’s dinner weren’t poisonous 🍄

Today I was very despondent about my French as I couldn’t understand a thing anyone said … eventually I realised I had been spoken to in Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese 😆

#3GoodThings My best night ever… 🦛🦛🦛 - first open air movie show on banks of river Congo - at great beach bar where an orphan hippo lives in the water - they screened ‘Hungry’ about a rampaging killer hippo

#3GoodThings - project for mental health awareness training for the pastors is getting going - fattoush salad for lunch at a Lebanese restaurant - Harry is well enough to behave like a puppy now and has a passion for stealing shoes and socks

#3GoodThings - successful use of first WRAP plan in Congo 🏆 - my delivery of medical supplies has arrived from the UK 🩺 - my dear friend is back home with us from her residential school

Wow have just successfully implemented the first WRAP plan in the Congo. Thank you @luckyerica3.bsky.social for all the support

#3GoodThings Found a bar overlooking the river Congo that sells #Guiness 🇮🇪 Fried Bananas for my dinner 🍌 Saw the baby hippo having a swim whilst having my supper 🦛

Trying hard not to get bitten here but my mosquito net seems defective as it has let a big pest get into my bed 😆 #Nicky

#3GoodThings - housemate trod on giant cockroach in bare feet (and I didn’t)😱 - found the missing car key - cheese … lots of it for dinner

Harry followed me to the local shops today and walked to heel like an obedience champion. He’s not really eating and is very skinny … the vet thought he was ok but I’m getting worried. He only accepts sardines, hotdogs and peanut butter … #DogAdvice please 🙏

Just had a surprise Birthday party in Brazzaville with my friends and colleagues - thought I’d be able to hide here and dodge the big 60 🫣🥳

#3GoodThings - bought some lemons and they came in this #BarackObama bag 🍋 - sun is shining today (usually too much pollution to see) ☀️ - the first of the seasons Alphonse mangoes for breakfast 🥭

#3GoodThings - agreed to return to Congo next year to teach at the University - ‘Arry has been vaccinated so is officially in our family 🐾 - watched ‘Love Actually’ for the first time tonight

#3GoodThings - rescued a baby goat who was stuck our compost hole - spent the day at a conference on ‘l’autisme’ - arrived early at conference so treated myself to my first cappuccino in 2 and a half months 😵‍💫

It’s World Gratitude Day, so I’m going to thank Jemima who donated her stem cells to treat my blood cancer, and then two years later, her lymphocyte cells to rescue me from relapse into leukaemia. Without her, I almost certainly wouldn’t be here today.

#3GoodThings - neighbour complained about the pack of dogs outside our house and said 2 dogs is enough (he previously objected when we just had one) 🥳 - back home and in my own bed 😴 - ice-cream for lunch (banana and peanut flavours) 😋

#3GoodThings - today I learned Congolese people say ‘omelette’ to pull a smiley face for photos - I had a ‘beignet’ for my breakfast (it’s a donut) - can now understand French conversations if I concentrate hard

Meet ‘Arry Kane my new dog - named by the local children after I gave them a football as it was the only English word they knew ⚽️🐾⚽️🐾⚽️

gofund.me/aaa564ea7 Hi I’m trying to provide water for my local clinic - very grateful for any support or shares 💖

#3GoodThings from #Brazzaville: - stranger offered me heartfelt condolences on the death of Queen Elizabeth 🫅 - spontaneous rendition of a pop song which uses my name🎶 - a wonderful hot shower 🚿

My French is still terrible but today I managed to speak well enough to work with my Congolese friends to separate our 2 flocks of chickens after an outbreak of violence in the chicken coop.

Having an amazing time and making lots of new friends. The Congo is beautiful but the mosquitoes are a menace- luckily they are rarer outside the capital. These are my friends from the rural clinics 💖

Did my #GetTheFckOutside and used a day off work to visit the most famous tourist attraction in Brazzaville … St Anne’s Basillica. Is is just me or does the architecture give off a rather gynaecological vibe. 😳 but it was lovely cool and quiet in the heart of the city.

#3GoodThings - in Congo I don’t have to apologise for being British 🇨🇬 - people spontaneously help me across the road (because I’m an old lady AND I always look the wrong way 🫣) - my French is still bad enough to make people laugh but I’m still trying

Here I am with the river Congo in the background. My friends are better, the electricity is back and so are the chickens (all by chance, no action on my part)

Well that’s been quite a week - sold my house - quit my job - now technically homeless - presented at a conference - had a good bye party - setting up a business - helping someone else to set up a business - invited to write for a journal - not sure what to do next 😬

A lovely day - hard to cut it down to just #3GoodThings - surprise rebate on my Council Tax 💰 - marmite and cheese oatcakes 😋 - after one week of the lift being broken I’m noticeably fitter 🥇

#3GoodThings - being made very welcome to my new job 🥰 - pasta for dinner 🍝 - early night tonight 😴

#3GoodThings - gave the middle finger to a chap in a SUV, who was honking whilst I let a carer pull out in her car 🤬 - met a very cute lurcher😍 - homemade lasagna for lunch 😋

Usually I try to list #3GoodThings but by 8am this morning I’d cracked my phone screen, poured a bottle of ribena into my bag and trodden on a plug barefoot 😭

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

How on earth can we continue with a World Cup hosted by a nation that is at war with other parts of the world? It’s crazy! 🤷‍♂️

#3GoodThings - just accepted to provide a workshop at a conference - heading off to meet a pal I haven’t seen for 20 years - realised I am about to be eligible for a pensioners railcard… and going to gift them to my friends for their birthdays too 👵🏻🚂

#RamadanMubarak Hold on to love and compassion in dark times. Believe in a joyful future and know that the world contains abundance enough for all. Hold Everyone in the Light, however you view them and their actions - remember that #DJT believes Sunlight is a disinfectant ☀️ 🕊️ #PacifistNotPassive

#3GoodThings - Hannah Spencer 💚 - Zac Polanski 💚 - a little bit of hope coming back into my heart 💚💚💚

Had a rash - the teenager at the spa and her colleagues at the high end beauty counter told me my skin was aged but their lotions didn’t help at all. I saw a dermatologist yesterday and apparently I have athlete’s foot … on my face 😭 🦶 I don’t know which is worse #FootFaceFungus 😱

No one is perfect but it would really help if folk learned to say sorry if they’ve been a complete a***hat

Tried a free trial of Adobe Acrobat this morning and they’ve already charged me £26. So glad I didn’t chose the expensive options 🙃