Tangerines au naturel

I really do wish that I could plan and take photos so that I would be more prepared when I write something, but unfortunately this doesn't happen most of the time. I suddenly realized that it is tangerine time again, and I couldn't resist buying some last weekend when I was doing my onion shopping at Agbogbloshie market. I just took one and peeled it, and ate it section by section, dropping pips all over the front of the car, though! [TG it gets cleaned on Sundays though!] I felt a little guilty about the smell, but then I was the only one in the car, so why should I worry? I did wonder whether I was taking a risk though from the market, but crossed my fingers that my luck would hold!

One day I will look into tangerines in more detail, because it has always struck me as odd that they only flourish for a very short period even in what should be the ideal climate? Here of course they are not always orange on the outside, though the inside ranges from the pale to the deeper orange. Some are sweet, most have a sour edge which is a slight shock, but then somehow the mouth adapts, especially as one eats the whole section.

Is the wheel being reinvented every year?

I ask whether the Ministry of Education (as it is now known) [and yes, the link leads to a website which is still under construction, nine months after the present government came into power!] reinvents the wheel every year with regard to admission to senior high schools here in Ghana?

The computerised system is not new, and even if you have failures, does it take more than six weeks since the results were released by WAEC to do the placement?  For crying out loud, I suspect a manual system of slips and cards and assembling all the heads in one place would have solved the problem in much less time!