Friday 25 March 2016

Orange. And a functional mud brick building.

The Dutch call them Chinese apples, and the French have adapted the word from Arabic, something like 'orenje' which became 'orange'. William of Orange named himself after a fruit, then, and also raided Chatham in 1667, rather successfully as accounts go. He followed that by becoming King of England after an invasion of Brixham.
Nothing to do with the fruit, actually. 
This is a local Tanzanian orange, green on the outside, juicy and delicious on the inside:




 Bananas also look unusual. They would fail the length, diameter, colour and blandness tests of the European Union. They have bruise marks all over the skins, but when they are peeled they are perfect.

Anyway, foodwise there is everything growing at the moment. The meat, for the meat eaters, is rough and tough.
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Most mud brick buildings have corrugated iron roofing now, but here and there some traditional ones still exist. These can be washed away by the heavy rains, and the roofing is an ongoing maintenance job.
I think that this end of this building is a goat or chicken pen. No, they don't teach goats and chickens to write. They can already do that.