Travel bag - Kenya

When Magog Muffin has to travel, the sturdy Gog Magog Hills Farm Shop bag goes too, swapping its usual cargo of local goodies for laptop, files and the odd refugee item from an overstuffed suitcase. Thus it sometimes finds itself on the horns of a dilemma or hanging about at the equator.

Magog Muffin does not expend carbon easily, but when it is unavoidable adds on as much value as she can. So an overnight in Nairobi with family came up with some Kenya varieties of savoury muffins (of which more anon). Meanwhile, "safari mzuri" or words to that effect.

Magog Traditions

This colourful 16th Century parchment apparently depicts Alexander (with a bit of help!) building a wall against Gog and Magog. Variously giants or tyrants, Gog and Magog appear in numerous texts and mythologies.

For us, they are the names attached to the local "hills" (I know, I know, mere pimples on the landscape for real mountain people, but all that the flatlands of East Anglia have to offer...). We are, however, attaching a new tradition to the Magog name, one of ethical good taste, and we are guarding it jealously.

But here's some more food for thought. Could these same hills be the real site of Troy and gazed upon by fair Helen of Troy?
Iman Wilkens in the book "Where Troy once stood" argues that Troy was located on the Gog Magog Downs here in Cambridgeshire. Hmmmm.