Patches McPatches the wandering lion teaches us about life in PNG

The final chapter  - until he writes again :-)

By then it was time to make dinner. We use a lot of coconuts for our cooking here. When a coconut is ready it falls off  the coconut tree, but it looks different to the ones you see in the supermarket because it still has a husk on it like the ones on the ground in my picture. Aunty Rosa taught me how to use a sharp stick to rip the husk off. It takes lots of muscles but she’s very good at it. 

 Once the husk comes of we break it open with a big knife, scrape the coconut out of the shell and make coconut cream with it. We cook things in the cream a lot, but we don’t eat much of the coconut. Most of it goes to feeding our chickens.

After such a busy day it was time to hang out on the balcony of my house with a big glass of juice.

I love my life here in PNG in the tropical sunshine.

Mr Corlett told me that you’re going to be taking my good friend Henry on some interesting adventures too so I’m looking forward to hearing lots of great stories from you all.

  

Bye for now

Patches Mc Patches xxx