This week I was waiting outside the compound and was passed by one of our regular school taxi drivers. As he had time before his next appointment, he had purchased a big bag of bananas from one of the “souks” nearby. It began to rain so I followed him into the compound where I watched him pass out the bananas to all the guards. They were clearly happy to receive this small gesture of friendship.

In one of those coincidence moments that lead you to think life is far from random, the brother-in-law of one of the partners at my old GP practice in the UK introduced himself to me in the Bingham Academy teachers’ lounge last Sunday afternoon, as I was relaxing watching the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix. He was here on a pastoral visit with the Church Mission Society, on his way to Tanzania and Kenya.