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Today we had a hundred tea growers -- industry people, experts, farmers, government officers -- from he whole country for lunch in Maweni. They have gathered in Lushoto for a week-long campaign to revive the tea industry. Having seen smallholder tea growing decline for decades and entire villages sink into poverty, we can only applaud the effort.

The wildlife of Maweni is not like Serengeti's. The top predators here are not lions but moderately dangerous eagle owl, monitor lizard, honeybadger (but you should see their teeth!). And then we have the ugly monster: the neigbouring priests' cat. A lazy, chameleon-eating, fish-stealing, bird-terrorising, rat-ignoring, anti-social creature, who does not even like children.

Today a paradise flycatcher chick fell down to the ground from a nest in one of the avocado trees around the front yard. I am not saying the cat caused it, but it happened to be nearby, licking it's mouth. Fortunately, guests and staff rushed to the scene and rescued the little chick in front of the drewling monster's jaws.

Last year, the waterfall in Soni dried up almost completely for the first time in history. Now after many weeks of daily rainfall, it is full of water. This stream has a watershed that covers a large part of the West Usambaras

Pombe kupita kiasi ni mbaya. Hebu angalia huyu mtu amepoteza fahamu na amelala bila yeye kujitambua katika Uwanja wa Fisi. Sisi tulijua ameshakufa na tulishindwa kumsaidia au kumshika kwa sababu tuliogopa tutashtakiwa baadaye. Kumbe, kesho yake tulisikia kwamba baada ya masaa kadhaa aliamka na kuweza kuondoka mwenyewe. Yeye ni mwuza machungwa sokoni ya Tandale na akishauza anakuja kulewa moja kwa moja. Pombe zinazouzwa kule ni kabunguz, mwamba, chibuko, pingu, dakika tatu, wanzuki ikiwemo na gongo. Haya ni baadhi ya matukio ya Uwanja wa Fisi usiku. Balaa tupu. Naomba hizi pombe zipitiwe na TBS.

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