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Things I wish my neighbours would know

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Maternity leave has made an interesting ‘transformation’ in me. The busy, focused, ambitious, time-conscious career woman has been reduced to a ‘busy body’ who has seen all the dirty laundry in the estate. Let me explain. In the mid-mornings after I have cleaned baby Troy, fed him and burped him, he sleeps like a real baby.
In the name of sprucing up her life, mummy has found an interesting way to kill time- standing strategically on the balcony watching the expansive neighbourhood for free entertainment.

You see, our neighbourhood has so much drama; it is akin to the popular programme on KTN ‘The Real House helps of Kawangware’.
Now there is this house girl who has the habit of finishing her work at record speed, then puts the baby on her back and disappears to some unknown place (I think she goes to the nearby slum to see her boyfriend) for the better part of the day.

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