Bits and pieces of news

Well not much to report here. Daniel is busy as he has been covering for the country director for the last 6 weeks. There have been a few ups and downs and a few midnight calls to tell us that the hanger alarm has gone off, but apart from that it has passed relatively smoothly. Next week he will hand over again and will go back to his normal job.

The children all seem to be well. Next week is the half term break which we will spend here. For me it will just be a relief not to do so much driving. It has been normally crazy here traffic wise this week. I have only driven on the pavement a couple of times and was scraped by a large 4x4 once. On our road they have been cutting down all the trees to make pavements. This is to improve road safety. However, now the pavements have finished they have covered them with bolders to prevent vehicles using them as extra lanes. This makes walking on them much more difficult especially if you have a buggy as my friend discovered.I should also point out that although the pavements are finished there are still a number of trees that haven't been cut down in the middle of the new pavements. I know this because all the trees due for the chop have big white crosses on them. The question is, have they changed their minds about the trees or are they, haveing finished the pavements going to cut the trees down? We will see.