What's new?

...scouring the second hand market for warm clothes and shoes to wear in England in December. Can't say I am looking forward to the cold. Joshua would like to wear his usual outfit of shorts, t-shirt and crocs, but somehow I think he might be a bit cold!

...We have a brown out. The power goes off fairly regularly here, but this time it is very low, enough for a few dim lights, but not much else. Thank goodness for a split electric/ gas cooker. There is no generator here! When the power is on we now have a much faster Internet connection. Thanks to Zuku and the new under sea fibre optic cable we now have 1mbps each instead of sharing half that between 8 families.

...We have brown sludge coming out of our taps. Yesterday we filled up the bath and came back of and it was full of brown sludgy water. We figured we were probably cleaner skipping baths!

...Joshua has gone on a trip today to visit a tea plantation and Bethany is going on a walking safari on Friday. Nairobi is bordered by a national Park so you don't have to go far to see animals.

...Christmas has come to Nairobi. There is a Christmas tree and decorations up in the shopping centre and yesterday at school they put up a huge tree and the little kids (year 1 and 2) decorated it with their hand made decorations. They sang carols and had mince pies and mulled wine or mice pies and mold wine as Bethany called them. It is a lot more festive here than Dodoma, but it still doesn't feel like Christmas to me with such hot weather. Still I am looking forward to seeing Caleb as a Weaver bird in the Christmas production!