May is turning out to be as hot as everybody has warned us it would be. The rain is unpredictable now compared to April, when it would rain nearly every afternoon. Even some of our Ethiopian colleagues were looking a bit hot yesterday. Our boss looked like he might actually have been sweating!

As if the weather isn’t hot enough, we made an Ethiopian dish called Shiro, a paste made of chickpea powder, onions, tomato and a mixture of spices called Berbere, for dinner. There was a bit too much chilli in it and I’ve been sweating so much my hair is wet.