Another bridge too far gone

You may recall my encounters with a pedestrian bridge on the way to work, but here is a road bridge on the under-populated eastern lake shore.

My car is on the other side; this is after I drove across it, for the first time.

It crosses a dried-up river bed but locals are digging for water. (Click picture)

 The whole area is dry.

But, talking of my pedestrian bridge, the Malachite kingfishers have had a brood! Here are a proud parent (red bill) and a child (black bill). They do slow down my walk to work.

 

Tell it like it is!

A computer bug

And yes, it's a German machine, and it's dusty.
  

Cooking

I went with a colleague to inspect a training college outside Blantyre. Amongst other things we saw the kitchens where they have to provide all meals for up to 400 students.

They had some reasonable equipment but the brick fire boxes are collapsing and unusable:

Therefore they cook on an open wood fire (front left):

When I used flash it showed the smoke:

To get firewood, you need to chop wood:

No wonder deforestation is so bad.