I'd been wondering for a little while where exactly it is my host father occasionally vanishes to. There are times when he is clearly not in, and yet I have not heard him leave, and equally mysteriously returns a short while later. I'd previously put this down to my own absentmindedness, but I increasingly became convinced I actually wasn't imagining things, and he really did vanish occasionally...
After much careful investigation* it turns out that what he in fact does is climb out of the window and shuffle along the ledge to visit his neighbour, a fellow cyclist. I feel I can be forgiven for not realising that this was of course what was happening as we are SIX storeys up. And its not a big ledge. I know. I checked.
*Well, sort of. The careful investigation in fact consisted of hearing someone scream outside my ayi's bedroom window, which on investigation turned out to be the neighbour himself, who had shuffled over to visit us and found the window to be locked. Typically, the three of them spent 15 minutes discussing me, knowing I could understand every word they said, until I escaped with my ears burning and a newly enchanced reputation for untidiness to go and play badminton.
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