Lie in ? ? ?

What does a girl have to do to get a lie in ?

Since arriving in Ghana a lie in has never been on the cards. For those of you who know me well, you’ll know how important sleep is to me ! !

I wake every morning to a dawn chorus of cockerels, pigs, goats and sheep all calling out for their babies. Either that or they have been told I’m in town. From 5 am onwards it’s a fight to stay asleep, the cockerel seems to have taken up permanent residence outside my bedroom window. I decided that this weekend I was going to try hard to ignore their morning calls and finally try for a lie in.

Amazingly I wasn’t woken at 5am by the usual dawn chorus, but instead I was woken by the booming voice of our landlord’s son and his friend at 6.15am coming to start work on the drainage channels around our house. (During the wet season water has been eroding the walls and making them damp.) They then proceeded to talk at full volume for the next 3 hours.(Ghanaians don’t seem to know what the word whisper means) Along with their shouting from one end of the house to the other, came the hammering,  banging, clattering and an argument in Dagaare. The only solution was to get up and that was the end to my chances of a lie in. By the time I was up and dressed they had left for the day.

I’ll try again next weekend ! !