You know you're a Brit living in rural Africa when....

1. You ask someone if they are 'hobnobbing with the bigwigs?' and they just stare at you.
2. A friend decides to try out an english phrase so tells you he's here playing the drums because he 'got limbered into it' rather than lumbered with it.
3. You go to a city supermarket and lose all self-control at the sight of all the cheese and leave £10 poorer.
4. You go for a local horse trek and see wild zebra and wild black wilderbeast (but return with flea-infested jeans).
5. You get caught in a crazy storm whilst travelling through Lesotho in the open back of a bakkie so have to take shelter in a tiny village 'shop' while watching the lightning strike the valley in front of you.
6. You were travelling through Lesotho sitting in the open back of a bakkie in the first place. By the way, although it's legal to cram as many people as possible in the truck, it is illegal to balance on the side of it. You must be fully within the vehicle. Sound like a theme park?!
7. The policeman at the border post is reluctant to let you back into SA until you converse with him in Sesotho (those lessons have come in very handy!)
8. You are offered a 'snackwhich' and have to ask for an explanation (a toastie to you and me).
9, You give a fellow english friend your only bar of english chocolate for his 30th birthday, and then get very emotional telling his wife about the sacrifice you've made.
10. You slowly but surely lose your pretty good grasp of world events.
11. Eventhough life is challenging in many ways, you are having a whole heap of fun!