Title: Adrian Murray (
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Saving mothers, losing babies… - 09/Dec/2023 10:46 - 327 days ago
The past week has had rather more drama than one would wish for. Today the closed road to Maholong’wa has prevented the weekly...
Point of view - 06/Dec/2023 13:25 - 330 days ago
As a change from a male medical perspective on life in a Tanzanian village hospital, it is time to hear the voice of Hilary, my ...
Taking care… - 21/Nov/2023 12:23 - 345 days ago
‘Take care’ became the maxim for Covid and continues to be good advice. More relevant to my current context is the prevalenc...
Powerless… but still going strong … - 19/Nov/2023 14:30 - 347 days ago
In this world we are so very dependent on things and stuff are we not? Yet we like to be independent and tend to avoid dependenc...
Unsafe abortion - 29/Oct/2023 18:51 - 368 days ago
The UK Abortion Act of 1967 was introduced to protect women from the consequences of backstreet abortions. Deaths due to unsafe ...
Old friends… - 22/Oct/2023 18:31 - 375 days ago
Already one month has passed and we have been in the village 3 weeks. Today Noah sprayed the whole garden with pesticide so ther...
Escaping gas and water and pouring diesel - 03/Oct/2023 18:52 - 394 days ago
Our departure for Tanzania coincided with renewal of gas pipes in our area, fracture of the water main and closure of our street...
Sustainability - 14/Sep/2023 14:54 - 413 days ago
It’s been over a year since we said goodbye to Milo and the staff at St Luke’s Hospital. Naturally we felt concern at leavin...
Perfect Timing - 20/Jul/2022 19:58 - 834 days ago
We decided to visit and spend time with family and friends en route for Bala and our North Wales home so that we may feel settle...
The Last Days - 05/Jul/2022 09:29 - 849 days ago
Livestock featured prominently during our final days in Milo. We received so many donations of food to prepare us for departure....
Getting busy… - 03/Jun/2022 20:08 - 881 days ago
The month of June arrived with another busy outreach clinic in Mapogoro village 20 minutes down the road. James quit himself wel...
Tangawizi? - 01/May/2022 21:41 - 914 days ago
Our favourite soft drink in Tanzania is probably Stoney Tangawizi, the local equivalent of ginger beer. Tangawizi is simply the ...
Our family and other animals - 12/Mar/2022 13:17 - 964 days ago
I owe you all an apology and an explanation for the long interval since my last Blog. I think, to a degree, I have experienced w...
Christmas present - 29/Dec/2021 16:40 - 1037 days ago
Christmas is the time for families to return to the village where their roots and relatives are, not unlike the first Christmas....
Little zebra, had a heavy day… - 13/Dec/2021 18:28 - 1053 days ago
Last Friday was a mixed bag of events and experiences. Another unpredictable day. I had expected one Caesar but discovered that ...
A Succession of Failures - 21/Nov/2021 14:27 - 1075 days ago
Last week we went to town. It was time for outreach clinics in Njombe town (at The Anglican Health Centre) and Sayuni village (h...
Home sweet Home - 20/Nov/2021 17:40 - 1076 days ago
Home was waiting as I returned from foraging for rabbit food in the light of the moon this morning. I needed a torch in the fore...
Return to the countryside - 30/Oct/2021 20:29 - 1097 days ago
We returned to Milo village last weekend and enjoyed Bible Sunday with our home congregation in Penedeyrn Mission Area, an amalg...
Zanzibar: time for a break and a short update - 12/Oct/2021 12:50 - 1115 days ago
October has come and most welcome it is. September has been another busy period with the highest number of births since we arriv...
Ni zawadi! - 04/Sep/2021 17:39 - 1153 days ago
Giving and receiving of gifts is a big part of community life in Milo and especially so at harvest time. The beans, peas, maize,...
Six weeks on… - 15/Aug/2021 20:32 - 1173 days ago
It’s hard to summarise six weeks since the Last Post but I’ll try… We set Fenella on the plane for France and brought back...
Time flies for Gap Year Student - 30/Jun/2021 20:35 - 1219 days ago
It’s hard to believe that we will leave the village next week to accompany our gap year student to Dar on her way home. Three ...
The King of Wessex - 23/May/2021 13:59 - 1257 days ago
We returned to Tanzania 21 April with 128kg luggage, mostly PPE and other donated equipment for the hospital and with our gap ye...
Standing Committee Reflection 30.03.21 - 07/Apr/2021 11:19 - 1303 days ago
At the end of last month we had the opportunity to address the Standing Committee of the Diocese of St Asaph at the start of the...
It all began with the sheep… - 10/Mar/2021 10:49 - 1331 days ago
We were carried safely by Honda to Bala exactly two weeks after our arrival by Mitsubishi in Dar es Salaam. This drive began mor...
The view from here… - 23/Feb/2021 11:04 - 1346 days ago
We made it back to UK in record time. After taking the Covid-19 test in Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam on Thursday 18 February...
d-Ash Wednesday - 19/Feb/2021 07:50 - 1350 days ago
Surreal hardly sums it up. Monday evening, I was rediscovering Rend Collective, the music that gave me the drive to exercise in ...
Habari za siku njingi - 30/Jan/2021 15:07 - 1370 days ago
Today is Thursday. And this was the greeting from Imani with whom I have not spoken for several days, when she found me gatherin...
School Report - 04/Dec/2020 15:40 - 1427 days ago
Just for a change, this is Hilary writing on Adrian’s blog. I have a WhatsApp group, “Letter from Tanzania” where I usuall...
“This is our life…” - 24/Nov/2020 03:31 - 1437 days ago
Another blue-sky day. Another day in the shamba… At this time of year, as the Little Rains begin and the Long Rains loom, with...
The day I walked into the church… - 11/Nov/2020 17:52 - 1450 days ago
Many of our patients are of short stature and that accounts for many of the Caesareans we do. If they are short the pelvis tends...
Foxes’Farm - 16/Oct/2020 18:56 - 1476 days ago
We are at Foxes’ farm in Mufindi and I’m reading a book left by a Peace Corps volunteer, ‘The Pied Piper’, about an elde...
A well needed break… - 12/Oct/2020 05:14 - 1480 days ago
Wednesday, and some news from today’s outreach clinic. Saw 22 patients, another one with a molar pregnancy, brought her back i...
Adrian: Mole, age 13 and a half weeks, and‘Love, no matter what…’ - 06/Oct/2020 15:54 - 1486 days ago
Friday saw the culmination of a couple of weeks of chasing after a teenage girl with a mole. She had attended one of our outreac...
Why are we here? - 14/Sep/2020 00:40 - 1508 days ago
2.30am, Monday, 14 September. Call out for previous CS in labour. Slowly get moving, dress, unlock house and gate, negotiate log...
One year on… - 23/Aug/2020 12:55 - 1530 days ago
Last week we found ourselves driving to Dar es Salaam for a police clearance check for a residency permit, the work permit havin...
Psalms of Protection - 24/Jul/2020 13:54 - 1560 days ago
While visiting this week, parish priest Charles and his wife, Imani (‘Faith’), strongly advised us to pray for protection af...
June, height of the holidays… - 21/Jun/2020 12:55 - 1593 days ago
Since university days when students cluttered the parks and open spaces of the university campus, sunbathing and socialising, wh...
More than he could chew… - 09/May/2020 20:23 - 1636 days ago
After a quiet night, a misty Saturday morning was greeted by crowing cockerels in the nearby homesteads. Below us the sloping fi...
Taking off quietly… - 19/Apr/2020 13:22 - 1656 days ago
Sunday after Easter, ‘Low Sunday’, time to keep the head down and enjoy a short breather after a typical week. We ha...
Moving Experience - 07/Apr/2020 17:03 - 1668 days ago
At last we have moved into our new house! It has been a long wait with many ups and downs watching the workmen come and go, some...
Lipangala - 11/Mar/2020 18:04 - 1695 days ago
It was our second village outreach clinic and I think we are starting to get the right formula. Lipangala is on the ridge across...
Chicken&Chips&Godly Play - 27/Feb/2020 14:17 - 1708 days ago
Progress is measured in the oddest of ways. We often receive a live chicken gift and on each occasion my heart would sink as I c...
Too far to walk and too far to drive… - 09/Feb/2020 11:34 - 1726 days ago
Friday night we admitted a young woman in late pregnancy who had started to bleed in her village. Very soon she was in a lot of ...
Sonosite EDGE II reaches Milo - 02/Feb/2020 19:38 - 1733 days ago
With grateful thanks to many donors and facilitators, it’s a delight to announce that our long awaited ultrasound machine ...
Snakes in the shamba and other critters - 30/Jan/2020 06:00 - 1736 days ago
We are witness to the humble beginnings to an ant super-race. We have a jar of honey which originates in the tobacco growing are...
Hiraeth or what? - 23/Jan/2020 20:02 - 1743 days ago
We set off early Saturday morning on the 3-hour drive to Njombe, taking a patient home en route. She had been delivered by Caesa...
I guess it was only a matter of time… - 31/Dec/2019 12:58 - 1766 days ago
We have reached the end of December and are looking forward to celebrating the New Year three hours ahead of our family in UK. T...
Wait… - 13/Dec/2019 04:48 - 1784 days ago
It was demonstrated in the 1960s that a new born baby, still connected by its umbilical cord to the placenta, receives a signifi...
And then there were four… - 08/Dec/2019 04:07 - 1789 days ago
We said goodbye to Lindsay at Iringa airport two days after Guy Fawkes Day, our only celebration of that very British event bein...
First visit to Ludewa - 25/Oct/2019 12:28 - 1833 days ago
I have wanted to see Ludewa for some long time and at last the opportunity has come round. Carrying a letter of introduction to ...
Back in the Village - 20/Oct/2019 20:56 - 1838 days ago
On 10th October we finally took possession of our car in the morning, and in the afternoon had some vital repair work done to th...
Twins in St Luke’s Hospital - 08/Oct/2019 16:58 - 1850 days ago
In 5 years, 2015 to the end of September 2019, there have been 12 sets of twins delivered in St Luke’s, the base hospital of t...
Escape to the Country - 05/Oct/2019 14:20 - 1853 days ago
After a week of heat and showers, frustrations and lessons in patience, traffic jams and office visits, we were ready for a week...
A womb with a view - 28/Sep/2019 13:28 - 1860 days ago
Last night was another starry night for a brisk walk to the hospital at half past midnight. Thankfully better than the previous ...
Key-Hole and Other Surgery - 22/Sep/2019 10:45 - 1866 days ago
This past week my colleague Dr Benedict has been away for four days at a Boresha Afya (Better Health) conference where targets a...
Lepidoptera - 16/Sep/2019 18:40 - 1872 days ago
Lepidoptera It was a full moon on Sunday night which brought the opportunity I’ve been waiting for – I need to reset my ...
Jack-of-All-Trades - 14/Sep/2019 11:33 - 1874 days ago
Last night I did my first Caesarean Section in a while. The last time was 3 years ago here in Milo. In UK I would have to retrai...
Counter-Culture - 09/Sep/2019 11:37 - 1879 days ago
Today, Monday, we had no water. We had managed until today on the water we collected last Thursday but now, at the expected time...
Kumia the dog - 07/Sep/2019 08:39 - 1881 days ago
We do have some entertainment from the locals here. A lovely elderly lady who lives at the Main Street corner where her fruit tr...
Highs and Lows - 07/Sep/2019 08:17 - 1881 days ago
We have just completed two weeks in the village and now I have come to Njombe to process our application for residency. My regis...
Dar es Salaam–House of Peace - 16/Aug/2019 19:13 - 1903 days ago
We really have arrived in Tanzania – on Tuesday afternoon we were met at Julius Nyerere Airport by our friend Polikapo, fr...
Stuff, stuff, stuff… - 11/Aug/2019 07:56 - 1908 days ago
We’ve arrived! At least, we’ve arrived in London. In record time, with Hilary driving, we’ve arrived in Raynes Park where ...
Those old insecurities - 16/Jul/2019 22:00 - 1934 days ago
I have just been through another annual appraisal, the last in my present post. Sadly I shall be leaving Liverpool Women’s at ...
Emotional Times - 02/Jul/2019 23:40 - 1948 days ago
Today was the last of Clwb Beuno for this school year and we had a great time at the lake feeding the ducks. There were maybe 10...
ID check - 25/Jun/2019 10:12 - 1955 days ago
I have set out on the road to register with the Medical Council of Tanganyika in order to work as a doctor in Tanzania. This is ...
Breaking 6 years of Radio Silence - 02/Jun/2019 20:25 - 1978 days ago
It has been a long time. I last blogged in September 2013. I haven’t stopped volunteering but I gave up blogging in Milo, ...
Diocese of South West Tanganyika - 19/Sep/2013 13:49 - 4060 days ago
The Anglican dioceses of St Asaph in North Wales and South West Tanganyika are linked. Consequently the parishes of Bala in St A...
Diocese of South West Tanganyika - 19/Sep/2013 13:49 - 4060 days ago
The Anglican dioceses of St Asaph in North Wales and South West Tanganyika are linked. Consequently the parishes of Bala in St A...
Southern Highlands - 19/Sep/2013 12:04 - 4060 days ago
We are happily back in UK this morning and thankful for safe travelling especially on the Tanzanian trunk roads. Once again we s...
Southern Highlands - 19/Sep/2013 12:04 - 4060 days ago
We are happily back in UK this morning and thankful for safe travelling especially on the Tanzanian trunk roads. Once again we s...
From the dark side of the moon - 18/Sep/2013 22:25 - 4061 days ago
A whole moonth of activity and adventure has passed since last I was able to post from Bukoba on the shore of Lake Victoria. We ...
From the dark side of the moon - 18/Sep/2013 22:25 - 4061 days ago
A whole moonth of activity and adventure has passed since last I was able to post from Bukoba on the shore of Lake Victoria. We ...
Back to Bukoba - 31/Aug/2013 05:32 - 4079 days ago
It had been raining not long before we landed in Mwanza on the south-eastern shore of Lake Victoria after the 1.5 hour flight fr...
Back to Bukoba - 31/Aug/2013 05:32 - 4079 days ago
It had been raining not long before we landed in Mwanza on the south-eastern shore of Lake Victoria after the 1.5 hour flight fr...
Mafia and Milo memories - 16/Aug/2013 19:36 - 4094 days ago
It’s ages since I blogged and I apologise. Wifi in Tanzania was unreliable and emails were often clogged up and unsatisfac...
Mafia and Milo memories - 16/Aug/2013 19:36 - 4094 days ago
It’s ages since I blogged and I apologise. Wifi in Tanzania was unreliable and emails were often clogged up and unsatisfac...
Mafia - 01/Apr/2013 20:27 - 4231 days ago
The memories of Pakistan and Gujranwala are fading slowly. That was not the trip of a lifetime. Nevertheless, despite the lack o...
Mafia - 01/Apr/2013 20:27 - 4231 days ago
The memories of Pakistan and Gujranwala are fading slowly. That was not the trip of a lifetime. Nevertheless, despite the lack o...
The Revenge of Jack Sparrow - 14/Feb/2013 21:12 - 4277 days ago
If I say it was the sparrow, you will think me paranoid. All the same we have all been smitten by the same affliction, after we ...
The Revenge of Jack Sparrow - 14/Feb/2013 21:12 - 4277 days ago
If I say it was the sparrow, you will think me paranoid. All the same we have all been smitten by the same affliction, after we ...
Too much champagne… - 11/Feb/2013 16:18 - 4280 days ago
I blame the Dom Perignon. The urgent faculty call out came through by email somewhere above the Austrian Alps while heading home...
Too much champagne… - 11/Feb/2013 16:18 - 4280 days ago
I blame the Dom Perignon. The urgent faculty call out came through by email somewhere above the Austrian Alps while heading home...
From Svai to Dubai - 09/Jan/2013 00:54 - 4313 days ago
It’s never easy saying goodbye when you know there is no sure prospect of meeting again. Our Sisophon family made the occa...
From Svai to Dubai - 09/Jan/2013 00:54 - 4313 days ago
It’s never easy saying goodbye when you know there is no sure prospect of meeting again. Our Sisophon family made the occa...
Wat Banan, Bamboo Train and Bat Cave - 04/Jan/2013 07:29 - 4318 days ago
It had been raining pups and kittens according to David when I last visited Wat Banan 18 months ago and we had to abandon our in...
Wat Banan, Bamboo Train and Bat Cave - 04/Jan/2013 07:29 - 4318 days ago
It had been raining pups and kittens according to David when I last visited Wat Banan 18 months ago and we had to abandon our in...
Battambang - 03/Jan/2013 09:43 - 4319 days ago
Battambang, second city of Cambodia, is sleepy by comparison with tourist magnet SIem Reap. The best local temple of the Khmer E...
New Year for Grannies and Papas in Siem Reap - 01/Jan/2013 02:38 - 4321 days ago
The fireworks were explosive last night! I guess fireworks always are. That’s how they work. But these were incredibly lou...
Silk and stone - 30/Dec/2012 15:06 - 4323 days ago
From the mulberry bush to the kramar, the whole silk process is explained and clearly demonstrated in the wonderful Silk Farm ou...
Boxing Day bathing Angkorian style - 29/Dec/2012 14:40 - 4324 days ago
The significance of our visit to our Sisophon extended family could not have been emphasized more strongly than by their cancell...
Cambodian Christmas - 28/Dec/2012 15:11 - 4325 days ago
Christmas this year began with three of us riding a motorbike from the centre of Sisophon to the home of Mono, his mother, grand...
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