'Winter tidying up'
It seems like the equivalent of spring cleaning happens now in the winter - at least it does in Jurere. The weather is very mixed, but currently there is lots of sunshine and clear blue skies, either associated with warm or even hot days, or associated with really quite cold days.

Either way it is obviously nowhere near as hot as it is in the summer, when from past experience I know that for 3 months a terrible lethargy sets in because of the heat. Now is the obvious time to get all those jobs done that you know will not get done in the summer, so lots of houses are being cleaned up, repainted, refurbished, replanted etc.

I thought this was the most fascinating bit of cleaning up I have seen. Not only is the house being painted white, but also the palm trees and the stones, which then form borders to the flower beds.