Happy new year...happy strike!

So its been a long time since I wrote, (5 months to be exact). Poor poor excuse, but I got wrapped up in living the Nigerian life. Id got used to my working week - taking in my own hot water and tea bags every morning. My weekly shopping run (Ive even found a french deli that makes baguettes!), and my Thursday night wine nights. So I was totally taken aback by the announcement of a National strike last Friday, and the prospect of spending all day, every day in doors with the husband...indefinitely...

We have just got back from our Christmas holidays in London, and unlocked the house last Wednesday. As you can imagine we had run down most of our food supplies in the run up to Christmas, so had very little left. On Friday, my colleagues told me to prepare for the strike lasting to Tuesday, possibly more, so I headed to the shops on the way home from work, picking up what I now realise was a truly pathetic bundle of food for strike circumstances. 2 bottles of wine, a pack of Thai rice, 12 tins of tuna, 2 tins of sweetcorn, 2 packs of spaghetti, 6 packs of noodles...not really the tastiest selection of food, and some pretty weird meal ingredients. So unfortunately whilst most of my work mates used last week as a sort of extension of Christmas; eating, drinking and being merry, Si and I had a sort of detox week. Well sort off, if there is such thing as an all tinned food/dried food detox diet...

Unfortunately the workers and government have not reached any agreement about the strike, so we have been told to prepare for another 5 days of strike.The Nigerian workers are protesting over removal of their fuel subsidy, which effectively doubled the price of petrol overnight. In a country where people see a 
little benefit from the billions of dollars of oil revenue the government earns, its easy to see why they are protesting. And all credit to the protesters, there has been relatively little vandalism and violence. 

So any suggestions on how we should kill another 5 days in our flat are welcome. (Deb...only clean ideas please). We have exhausted our Scrabble, Trivial pursuit and 2 man card game skills. We do still have our Risk board game...which we pull out every now and again, try to decipher the rules and then put back again. any ideas?