Why so quiet on the Djenné front?
A combination of extremely bad internet connection; a bad cold; a Bamako health visit with Keita- who is enjoying a period of excellent health. He is almost back to normal, although of course the spectre of recurring illness is always hovering, and medication can never stop.
And in Djenné the heat and the dust increases by the day, while the tourists are diminishing in equal proportion.
The unruly Maobi tore down the stable again- mud walls are no match for him. So he had to be shepherded the whole day in the garden (above) by Pudg while workmen were reinforcing the stable walls with cement...Normal peaceful Djenné horses can be simply tied up and surveyed now and then, but Maobi would have torn up the whole garden if left to his own devises, so hence the intensive surveillance.
And the frangipani tree is flowering for the first time!