Dear readers
You cannot imagine the troubles I underwent in order to give you an update about my life. Not only that all the keyboards are in French. I arrived in Natitingou high up in the north in the evening of the day before yesterday (the bus was several hours late due to an incidence) and went to an internet café the very next day. No satellite connection. I came back yesterday and got a virus immediately. The other internet café had a functioning antivirus system, but no connection. When I went back there in the evening, they had connection, in principle, but a general electricity blackout.
This was when we realised that the blackout we had had in our house for the whole day was not due to the communal electricity network, as in town there had been energy, but a problem of the local counter. Promises were made to repair it today. In the meantime, batteries of torches, telephones and all the other tools necessary for survival run out of energy.
We terminated the utterly successless day that had been yesterday with a - delicious - dinner prepared on a gas stove at the light of a candle, rain pouring down on the little yard that has to be crossed each time one goes from the living room to the kitchen, accompanied by warm beer.
This morning at daybreak we returned to the same internet café. They have electricity, but the modem has been damaged during yesterdays downpour, accompanied by a blackout, of which we noticed nothing, since we didn't have electricity anyway.
So I went on to the other place, the one with a functioning, if slow, connection and the virusses.
To make a long story short this is why you don't find pictures. Patience is what you need.