Bits and pieces

Seacom, the owner of the new subsea glassfibre cable, is doing maintenance. As a result we have no internet for a week, so I have no idea when I will be able to post this. Still life goes on even without the internet! Maybe it’s good to be off line every once in a while.

Daniel spent the last week in Nairobi at a Regional Managers’ conference. He set off on Sunday to Dar to catch his flight to Nairobi, but just an hour outside Dar he was told it wasn’t worth going because the guys from Europe couldn’t make it because of the volcano. So he ended up turning round and coming back. He went again on Wednesday morning, when flights started again in Europe. He was supposed to return on Sunday but texted me to say that he was too sick to make his flight and was staying in Nairobi another day. He eventually made it back on Monday night. We had a nice time whilst he was away, (we have a nicer time when he is here!!) going out to people’s houses and having people over. Mirjam’s (next door) husband was away in the Congo and Julie Anne’s (other compound)husband was in South Africa so we did lots of things together and the kids had a great time.

Monday there was a small earthquake and Tuesday Caleb woke up with his eye completely swollen shut. We think it was an insect bite, but who knows, anyway he is looking better now. Today next door have just chopped the head off the rooster, he was making too much noise so will now be dinner. The kids loved it and are now running round with a rooster head and feet-again!!!

The internet is back up now, so we can get online again, although it is very slow and we are having some problems. Still I wil try and post this so you know we are still here.