Well, it looks like winter is finally here, you can tell it’s here because weird things are happening at the office.

The girl who sits near to one of the open windows is sitting in front of her computer while wrapped in a blanket, I did suggest it might be a good idea to close the window so that the air conditioning could work properly (it’s set to around 26C to make up for the cold air coming through the window) but “fresh” air is the priority apparently. I did try to explain about the somewhat expensive air exchange system which is constantly bringing in “fresh” air that we’d had installed along with the air conditioning but they just looked at each other and started giggling as if I’d said the most ridiculous thing ever.

Also, one of the guys is going round wrapping the door handles with paper (scrap paper mind you, we’re very green here) and sellotape, I asked what was going on and he explained how when the weather gets colder and your hands get cold there is “electricity problems” with the door handles.

Of course there are a million other things going on but the only other thing I’ll mention is that the local farmers have taken over our road again. It happens every now and again, tractors just appear dumping sacks of grain onto the road, then farmers appear with huge hoes which have been nailed together from plywood and spread the grain over the road.

Apparently they’re drying their grain but they only leave a narrow passageway down one side of the road leaving traffic to fight it out as they pass. As we drive past the few hundred metres of corn to get to our office (we turn in half way up the pic above) you can see tyre tracks through the grain, discarded cigarette packets and god knows what else, I hope they give it a good clean before it goes to market!

Any ideas? corn? wheat?

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