I haven't given up on this series yet, but I'm hoping it gets on track to the way these books used to be.

Precious and Grace come up with a scheme that would temporarily move the woman and her unruly son into Grace and Phuti's home. For example, Mma Ramotswe takes her employee, part-time detective Charlie, to the dentist; Mma Makutsi goes to the supermarket with her husband Phuti; Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi visit their friend Mma Potokwane at the orphan farm; and more. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.If you have a very traditionally built patient, for instance, and the nurses have to lift the patient out of the bed, then they may ask a male nurse to do that, because they are stronger and can lift heavier weights. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.

She has placed a brass nameplate on her desk and is in the process of having the desk expanded to make it larger and more imposing than Precious's. When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. The agency was going through a quiet spell—several major inquiries had recently been satisfactorily concluded—and she had no appointments that day.It was already eight-thirty, a recklessly late hour for her, but then she remembered that the children were at their friends’ houses and did not have to be got ready for school. Faced with more than her fair share of domestic problems, Mma Makutsi deals with it all with her usual grace. Initially I found the characters quite charming, at least while I still surmised that there was going to be a mystery of sorts to be solved. This then morphs into a discussion of small and big men; of a man with very short muscular legs like tree trunks; of termites felling trees; etc. Instead of being hired by a client to investigate a case, Mma Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi set out to solve two problems close to home.

As they would sink into one of Phuti's large, overstuffed, extremely comfortable armchairs, so will readers delightedly immerse themselves in descriptions of the Botswana landscape; in Precious and Grace's conversations over mugs of red bush tea; and in the doings of the rest of the cast of comic characters.The first half gathers information in bits and pieces, while the ‘solving process’ begins in the latter part. This entire series is character-driven with an emphasis on problem solving rather than intense detective work. It was not a large sign, but at the same time it was not exactly small, and it was positioned on the side of Mma Makutsi’s desk so that it could be seen by anybody entering the room. It caught her eye from the side—a small name-plate, of engraved brass, mounted upon a wooden base, reading Mma Grace Makutsi . Alexander is also the author of collections of short stories, academic works, and over thirty books for children.