Busy busy

Sorry for the delayed post - we have been very busy recently, and it's starting to warm up a bit, so we're a bit sluggish!

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I am busy preparing for the audit (week after next) and I am off to Dar for the rest of the week tomorrow morning. [Having said that I've just had a message to say that the plane is 'unserviceable', so I won't be leaving until 10.00am - rather than the planned 7.30am. Bit worrying that].

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Libby is not looking forward to me going, and her being left with three still-off-school-and-getting-increasingly-naughty children. Please pray for her, because she finds it particularly hard when I am away.

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We made it to church again this week. I was on Sunday school duty, so Libby got the preach. This was a bit of a mixed blessing. One of the elders was preaching (based on the story of Jesus being left behind in the temple) that you shouldn't pray at home, but should come to church every day to do your praying! Not sure what to say to that really.

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Our friend Rachel (Marks) is coming out to see us in a couple of weeks, so we are planning our travels. We're wondering whether we'll be able to handle going down to Dar on the Thursday, picking her up from the airport first thing Friday and then driving straight home. It has it's appeal, but we wouldn't want to be totally wasted for the duration of her stay! But having said that, Dar is so hot at this time of year, staying there probably wouldn't be all that restful anyway.

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Still no resolution on the Banking Act thing. The lawyers promised me last Friday or Monday, and are now saying maybe tomorrow. It seems that a couple of the partners want to poke their oar in - which is good I guess, as long as it doesn't cost more than their original quote (which was painful enough as it was!)

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I realise that I never told you the end of the plane registration story. The name which won (courtesy of being the choice of the Chief Engineer!) was 5H-ERI (or Romeo India in pilot-speak). Heri is the Swahili word for (and I quote from my 'kamusi ya Kiswahili-Kiingereza') "1. tranquillity (sic) 2. happiness, advantage, blessedness, success". It usually gets translated as 'blessing'. [Interestingly only one of those words, when looked up in my English-Swahili dictionary comes up with 'heri'!]

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Heri is also the name of our Tanzanian hangar forman (i.e. main man) which is nice too.

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So there, you go.