“THEY told me we were in for a heatwave,” she said. “I’m still waiting for it!”
The Rev Boitumelo Gaborone holds up her hands in the blistering heat during the back end of the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly week in Edinburgh. She laughs. Perhaps our idea of a heatwave is not quite the same as hers, coming as she does from South Africa!
I’m talking to Boitumelo in the relative coolness of the gardens behind Old College at the University of Edinburgh.