This is absolutely true

Yesterday morning we met our friend Richard on the way to a meeting. He explained that he had some urgent business to attend to before he could go. The diocese has a house it has refurbished and some people are being paid to landscape it, to dig over and plant the ground in the garden and also outside the wall.

Richard had had a call from the Executive Secretary, who is responsible for the whole district of Kamembe. Apparently our gardeners had committed the cardinal sin of planting potatoes outside the wall instead of flowers. This had to be undone by 10am that morning, otherwise the “local guards”, a uniformed (and armed) type of local police, would be sent round to dig up the offending potatoes.