Christmas Bonus

Neither of us had ever had a Christmas bonus before we came to Nigeria. I still haven't but Fraser got two today. Once the library had closed for the break he came home carrying a black plastic bag. Inside was his share of the staff Christmas cow. It had been donated and arrived at the college a couple of days ago and I think the plan had been to fatten it up before distribution but it was refusing to eat. Farm cows are trained not to eat grass so they don't destroy crops but that was all that was on offer at TCNN. This one had learned the lesson so well that even when there was nothing else it would rather starve than disobey. I took our bagful round to the chaplain who has many refugee mouths to feed.

Fraser's other bonus is pictured below.