desperate housewives

Come to church...and get your ironing done?

Ironing's a problem when the power cuts are long. You can't just not iron things: in Zimbabwe there are putze flies. They land on wet clothes on the line in the rainy season, lay egg and the eggs then burrow themselves into soft warm flesh. A few days later, you see a pimple. If you squeeze it, out comes a yellow maggot.

So, ironing oblige. Which is why some desperate housewives follow the power. Literally: they cart their ironing (and their housekeepers) to an office, a friend's house, anywhere with power to get those clothes and sheets putzed- out. One local church had a huge advantage attracting members, it seems: it allowed them to take advantage of nearly-uninterrupted power to get their ironing done.